Ruffles

The weather has improved and certainly enable us to enjoy the outdoors better. 

I've continued to work on the Puff Quilt in between moments outdoors. 

All the puffs are sewn together. Yay! 

 I've placed a  2.5 " border around the edge of the puffs 

and begun to work on a ruffle. 

I picked up 3 pieces of fabric among my latest trip to the local fabric store.

 

The border is a dotted light mint green. I picked up a piece of dotted minky fabric 

in the same shade of green. So soft is this fabric! Wonder how well it sews! 

Guess I will know soon!

4 strips where cut from the dotted green fabric with my recent purchase.

I also choose to add small squares at each corner and joining to the green strips. 

I cut 4 yellow gingham 3" squares for those.

The other piece of fabric is for my ruffles.

It has a white background and contains colorful dots. 

Luckily this find contained dots with all the colors used with the puffs and to blend . 

Making the ruffles took time. 

I made several width cuts,

and then pieced sewing those width together.

I doubled the width to 6" so I could fold finish them 

into a  3" width ruffle to sew chain resulting with a 2 1/2-3/4 " ruffle. 

I discovered a tutorial with a 

ruffling method that included using dental floss!

The floss works rather well to pull for making ruffles.

A zigzag is stitched from the top edge with the floss added in line,

 therefore for pulling and making the ruffles with a strong source. 

 This pdf file How to make ruffles fast and flossy 
is packed with information on ruffling.

The blog posted at Magical Memories by Jessica
also describes ruffling with the floss method.

Once the ruffle was formed and pinned 

(with many miles of stitches and several tugs and pulls!). 

I based stitch the ruffle to the puffy square edges. Mitering the ruffle at the corner.

This is how far I have arrived to, as I write. 

Not certain that I like the ruffle with the white background
 & color coordinating dots against the puffs, 

and just how well it works along with the theme.

The white seems to wash things outward.

I'm in a hold till certainty strikes me.The ruffle appears so so white! 

But I assure you, there are coloring dots on that ruffle 

tho' one can not see them from this viewing! 

The camera does not pick the color dots up.

Maybe, that should tell me something!

 My work, at a stall, as the weekend unfolds.

I find I'm back to those planning phases again

 with more thoughts to continue!

Have a great weekend!