Fairy Moon Fabric

Ah yes, it arrived! Actually, it was a wonderful package jammed into my mailbox with the usual diligence of my mail man… but it was out there on Monday when I went to get the mail, along with two wonderful RAKs from ladies from The Wagon board. It lightened my heart quite a bit to have all of these unexpected goodies waiting for me after a tough weekend!

Of course, I was so moved by the arrival of that beloved Solo fabric that I pulled out the old WIP, ripped it off of the scroll frame, pulled out the ironing board, etc. I found two stains on the old fabric that have magically appeared since the last time I worked on it. VERY strange. I did my best to wash them out, but there are still vaguely there. I will need to make sure I work around them when I go to reuse the fabric. I’m thinking of cutting it into four symmetrical pieces and using one to do the Chatelaine New Orleans help design. Of course, I don’t have the threads yet, but one step at a time, right? 😉 Then onto the ironing. I ironed the fabric from one of the RAKs I received, the 5 from the SoloFest pack, the 4 others I bought and then onto the big Solo. After analyzing that piece of fabric on both sides and turned all different directions, I found that if I lay it the right way, then the purple is darker to the top and darkest in the top right area where the moon would be. I think that’ll be perfect, so it is now mounted on a scroll frame and tucked into a pillowcase until I have time to start her again.

This time, I think I might take Carol’s (?) approach of stitching the face first. Then I might tackle some of the endless areas of white. But, I don’t want to start her until I can leave her out and truly get her into a rotation. I don’t want to run the risk of the fabric getting stained again because I put her away for a long period of time. I’m hoping to start her again by January, at the latest.