A is for applesauce

What a great time we had making applesauce with Erica. It was an assembly line of peeling, cutting, cooking and canning. Erica made a great foreman. No one quit anyway but then that was because we were being paid in applesauce. Anyone can do a hard day's work for that kind of remuneration.

I participated in two challenges by doing this layout. The first was the Scrapmuch? Sketch challenge of October 3rd that this layout is based on. The second was the Stitching Challenge by little red wagon. Your layout had to include stitching and I chose to stitch an apple on one of the background papers. It took a lot of stitching, a pencil and the Silhouette Cameo but I love how it turned out. I'll tell you how below.

Most of the papers in this layout are from the Scrapmuch Kit Club, October package. The kit contents were perfect for my 'apple' themed layout.

I first started by getting a sketch of an apple from the Silhouette store. I then used the Silhouette pen holder, but with a pencil, and had the Cameo draw the design for me. I lightly dropped the pencil into the holder so that it didn't draw out darkly. I wanted only a light drawn outline. Then it was a matter of threads and stitching.

 

Sketched outline and beginning of stitching.

 

I used a triple stitch so that the stitching would come out as a heavy outline and rayon embroidery threads to put a 'shine' to the stitching. It's a matter of patience but as more of the outline was stitched the more I loved it.

Close up of stitching.

Done.

 

Once the stitching was done it was a matter of adding all the other elements and "A is for applesauce" emerged.

My favourite embellishment was the one I made from a canning lid. It seemed an appropriate item to use.

I added a burlap circle, which I pulled some of the fibres off of (I put them at the top of the page), scrunched up the burlap a bit, added a button and some embroidery floss and there it was...done!