Halloween Half Hexie Spider Embellishment

Halloween Half Hexie Spider Embellishment

First of all, I am not a spider lover. I do tolerate them much better as a gardener seeing their benefit, and would never destroy one or a web, but embrace them? No. This is me trying hard to look up web images of spiders without raising my pulse and blood pressure to create these little beasties. It has helped to be honest, but they will always cause me to jump when I see a big one.

The quilt I created in the last post, Halloween Half Hexie Table Topper Quilt, lacked something when I completed it. I didn't know what though. But if you stare at something long enough, it speaks to you. Some bling? Something 3D? Dunno. 

I have a friend researching wool quilts, and I was also dabbling with some recently acquired wool myself. I had to reorganize it along with my sewing room after a flooring reno. That meant a trip through boxes and bags of treasures found at sales along with my heavy button tins, and all those gorgeous buttons I had collected through the years. And somehow it all came together to marry the pieces into button spiders.

I laid in one line of embroidered before giving up. The background needed support before I embellished so I layered with a remnant batting I believe was Mountain Mist Cream Rose, a very thin batting. The longarm pattern was a web and star theme I will track down by the next post. Then the play started as to how to make the spiders. I added fused web to the background wool, and cut an assortment of circles with my Accuquilt. I retrieved several button sets from the tins, and work began. 

I added the first spider thinking that was a statement in itself when a friend said MORE! 3 became 5 then 7, and personalities emerged. The web threads are a vintage item buried with the button tins. I will give you all the details in the next post, but for now I am just enjoying the process. 

Do you feel the push for fall sewing? Are the leaves starting to redden already and fall your way? Finding the moments to hold still, and look around me I notice all the spiders now. Summer has been a flash in the pan here, and so many things have gone undone. There are only weeks left until school resumes. The calendar may say summer just started, but my eyes see a different scene. It feels and smells and looks like fall is coming. My spiders are getting ready.

Come on, Doxie girls.

Let's go sew.