Flower Pounding

If you need to work off some frustration, and create a project at the same time, flower pounding is for you. At the Quilt Guild program  last month one of the rangers from New River State Park came to demonstrate how easy flower pounding is.  He handed out the equipment: board, hammer, fabric and wax paper.  We got to choose our greenery from a large pile of ferns, leaves and wild flowers.

The process is simple: a layer of wax paper, your greenery, topped by a piece of white or muslim fabric.  Take the hammer and pound away.  If you lay the fabric on top, you can see the greenery come through.

  

When you are done, you have the perfect outline of your greenery.  Although you couldn't use the fabric in a washable product, they make gorgeous wall hangings.  For washable products, use iron-on transfer paper that will transfer the fabric onto paper that you will then iron onto your new fabric.  Or you can use fabric printing sheets.  Then you have a project that will last a lifetime.

  

Wild Flowers

The wild flowers this year are just gorgeous.  I don't know if it is from the early spring we had, but the blooms are everywhere.  If you see someone on the side of the road with a scissor and bucket, just keep going, as I can't seem to help myself.  Only kidding, I only cut flowers on the back roads where no one can see me.  My basement storage area is already filled with drying blooms.These photos were all taken on the main road between Jefferson and West Jefferson.