Really tired of making French knots. Didn't count how many I made but it was a a lot. The beads were added after the knots were done.
I used dark beads to simulate the overly ripe berries, the shiny red ones for perfect berries.
Raspberries are white before they ripen so I made some that look both unripe and starting to ripen. As of last year, our berries get those damn Japanese beetles on them. Maybe I should add them.....
Finished sewing the main cane on last Monday while at a guild meeting.
Then embroidered the berries to attach them to the cane.
Next came the leaves which are in sets of 3. I made a template for each leaf size. Turned the starched edges and then removed the template.
I made backs for each leaf. I used twist ties for the wiring. I cut off the green sides on 2/3 of the wire and stripped off the green paper trying to leave only the glue on the wire. Three of them ended up getting stripped down to the bare wire so I had to coat them with hot glue so it won't slide out of the floss when I attach it to the quilt.
Initially I planned to only make the smaller leaves 3D But then changed my mind and did this with all 3 leaves. Her ears the halves ready for the backings.
I hand sewed the backings on. It was getting late and I started to get tired and not pay attention....
After a good night's sleep, I tackled making the leaf trio. I embroidered the leaf design...
Leaving a tail.
I used a buttonhole stitch over the wire.
I wrapped the small leaves individually then used the buttonhole stitch to attach them to the big leaf. Then took the long tail from the big leaf to give it a finished look and combine all 3 wires. I will attach them to the quilt with floss and create the stems with the leaves popping off the fabric. At least, that's the plan.
Here are the fabrics for the border (raspberry fabric) and binding (green fabric)
