Pop-In Applique: Cutting Paper & Creating New Traditions

 I'll show you how I cut paper---resized---to design a block.

Found a simple image in Volume 1 of Pop In Applique to stitch a basket

of Morris Manor fabric (in shops in March)

Vase fabric

Resized the container and erased the color. Only need half of it

as it has to fit on my printer paper.

Vase full of sunflowers?

Kansas Day is at the end of the month.

Found a naturalistic sunflower in Volume 2

Resized it.

Printed it to the correct scale on 8.5" x 11" paper.

Large sunflowers. Here's half of it in paper on my cutting board.

Did a little photo manipulation flipping over one sunflower.

Are there too many leaves?

Too few or too many?

I started photo-manipulating as it's easier for me.

Better.

I have the shapes I need at the right scale for one large block. I'll print half of this on an 11x8-1/2" sheet, cut templates and

then fabric.

See posts on this sourcebook project here:

https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/01/pop-in-applique-source-books.html?

https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/11/computer-aided-drawing-my-pasttime.html

https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/12/roses-in-december.html