One half of all my flowers are sewed together as one big piece. As I made it, I had pressed each flower center. Then I sewed the flowers into rows with the pressing of the flower centers all in the same direction. It worked, I was half done with my pressing. But, I had all those connection rows to press and that was a bit of a bother to do. The first half is only half done. I became so bored with it. I do like ironing but this was driving me crazy.
I decided to press the second half in parts so that I was not working with such a large piece of material seams and having to figure which to press in what direction. I now had three parts of the second half which I needed to press. They just sat neatly folded up as I didn't want to see the iron.
The other day I decided I had waited long enough. Here is one part on the ironing board. I have two irons; one that does steam and one that is only a dry iron. I use the dry iron and it does make my seam lie flat nicely.
You can see here that the center seams of the flower are pressed, the yellow and blue hexie areas. But I hadn't done any of my joining seams and they are a bit ruffly. Fussy work pressing those little seams and making the joins circle nicely.
But when you do it, it really looks nice. I will now only have the connecting row to do of the two sections when I join them. Less daunting than the first half that I still have waiting for me to finish.
I have been working on smaller projects as this is now to large to travel. Shall share in another post. May you all be safe, healthy and busy with your hands at this time. Thank you for your visit.
