Progress on Ainsley and Jack's Wedding Quilt Label

Right after picking my goals for September, I got to work on my number one goal.  I finalised the text for the quilt label on the computer using Bradley Hand ITC font and printed it out intending to use my light box to trace the text onto the quilt label with a wash out marker.  However, the background fabric is a very dense white tone on tone and I could not see the text through it, so I had to come up with plan B.  Luckily I had been doing some tidying up of pattern papers last week and had come across dress making tracing paper which I am pretty sure had been bought for me when I was taking a sewing class in grade 9 Home Ec., 40+ years ago!  I pinned the text paper to the top of my label with the tracing paper in between and traced the text hard with a pen so the tracing paper would transfer to the fabric.  It's not very dark, but I think it will be good enough for me to follow.  I whited out their last names on the computer and my mouse skills are not great so excuse the scribbles.

Then I went off to buy some cotton embroidery floss.  I ended up with DMC 169, a grey the same colour as the darker grey corner triangles which I will embroider the "100% Cotton" with as it is not wedding info so I want it to fade into the background.  I might embroider the "To" in grey as well for balance.  Then I picked a violet I thought coordinated well with the central colours of violet in each of the four different violet rings.  It is DMC 327.  Here's a picture of the floss with the grey fabric and bits and pieces of the four leftover violet rings fabric.  Now to unearth an embroidery hoop.  I know there are several about.

Uh oh!  Now I am thinking of finding a simple embroidery pattern for lupin flowers as that is what the colours of the quilt are based on.  It would fit quite nicely in the top and/or bottom space left in the central white diamond.....  We shall see, I am very excited that progress is being made!

I am posting this at 9:15 am and it is already windy and grey and spitting rain as we wait for the full brunt of Hurricane Dorian to hit us at midnight tonight.  I should get plenty of embroidery time in this weekend.  I don't usually embroider, so have no idea how long it will take.