Meet The Problem Child
Remember the redwork ornament idea I was toying with? It gets the award for Problem Ornament Thus Far. The issue is to get everything stitched down without anything shifting or pulling. In the above ornament, I tried pinning. It's close, but it's a bit wonky. From a safe distance, Theo watched me make two more slightly wonky ornaments, and basically prove that my fabric glue stick didn't really work either. Next up was a regular glue stick, then finally, being completely desperate, I broke out the hot glue gun. Anyone who knows my track record with the hot glue gun will recognize this for the sign of desperation that it was. Shockingly, that worked much better, but in trying a new approach for sewing the second piece of blue on for the backing on the ornament on the right, I made it exceptionally hard to cut out (Note to self: remember the ribbon hanger might make it awfully hard to cut an ornament out after the fact). So, o...