Garden Lady #8 - Part Four

This is a continuation of 3 previous posts about the making of Garden Lady #8.

I added white backing fabric to the arms, hands, and face so that the background didn't show through.  Since all of these were made with Steam-A-Seam on the back, I just ironed them to the white fabric.  

Then I placed the pieces between the layers of Steam-A-Seam with the backside on the sticky part of the paper.  I cut them out with a little bit of the white fabric showing and then pressed them.  The non-sticky paper came right off and the new layer of Steam-A-Seam stayed on the back side of the white fabric. 

The final step was to cut off all of the white fabric on the original edges.  At this point, I stopped working on the original paper design, and moved all of the pieces to the background fabric.  I added a strip of black fabric around the edge so that I knew where other design pieces needed to go.

I sketched up a few ideas for a layout that would look like fall.

I used my ideas to cut approximate pumpkin shapes and leaves.  These were pinned on the piece to see if the scale was OK.

Then I made the pumpkins by cutting out different orange fabrics, highlighted them with Inktense pencils, glued them to dissolving foundation and turned the edges.

I made the pumpkin tops with brownish-green fabric and Inktense pencils , backed them with dissolving foundation, turned the edges and stitched those in place on top of the pumpkins.

Stay tuned to see what I did with all of my ideas for the leaves.  And I hope you like it so far!