A lot of determination and I finished the postcards for the swap. I had decided on a slice of watermelon, so googled watermelon images..................what choices! I finally picked this one, but it still wasn't what I wanted.Then I received an email from Angie's Bits and Pieces. I signed up for membership awhile ago and get regular updates. (This gal is so productive I don't know how she does it.) A brand new posting of Fifty Picnic foods. She must have known how badly I needed a really good slice of watermelon. I believe, but could be wrong, that you can download/print off the watermelon wallhanging. The other 49 are for members. I just checked it out and I'm definitely going to download some and make a summer wallhanging for my kitchen.
Anyway, I printed off the watermelon slice -- not this whole wallhanging -- I just wanted you to see this -- onto a sheet of paper. I resized it using my printer settings so that it would come out to fit a 4 x 6 index card. I used the fabric I found at our local quilt shop and dug around for a white. I fused interfacing to the back of the white so the redish of the watermelon wouldn't show through. I made one postcard to see if I liked it, showed it to Karl and he asked what it was. I figured his knowledge was lacking so just tucked it in my purse.
I went to Michaels to see if they had some beads in the shape of a teardrop and couldn't find a thing. I didn't want to have to cut out all those black seeds. After Michaels we stopped in at Barb's and she recognized it right away, so decided I would go with this one and not look any further. I was having doubts.
Our grandson came to cut the lawn so while he worked on that I worked on the four postcards I had to get made up. I fused all the backings on the stabilizer and then the red fabric. I sewed it down. Then the white and sewed all of them in place. Then the green................now it was time for the backings. I ran them all off and fused them in place. I finished up at 10:00 p.m. by stitching around the perimeters of each card.
In the morning I cut out 3 seeds for each slice. Just three! I don't like tiny and fiddly so this will have to do. Here they are.
I keep one for myself, so I can remember what I've done if this theme, which is "Sizzzzzzzzzzling Summer", rolls around again. I have a photograph album I put them all in. These are the backs. I put a little saying on from Mark Twain and gave recognition to Angie for her pattern.
I hope the girls like them.