Posted in Quilting, embroidery, tagged crazy quilt, embroidery, Quilting, roses on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s the newest crazy quilt block I’ll be working on this month in honor of my Mom. I have so much fabric given to me by her. The question has always remained with me about what to do with all the scraps and cut pieces. Our fabric choices are like night and day of course. She always [...]
Posted in Books, tagged crazy quilt, embellishment, needlework, ribbon embroidery on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I visited the library yesterday evening to find some new reference books for ribbon embroidery. I probably won’t put any more of these embellishments on my current crazy quilt block, but I wanted to study up for the next block. I hope to put the finishing touches on this block over the weekend and I [...]
Posted in Quilting, tagged crazy quilt, embroidery, stitch on April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
An update on my crazy quilt block is due. I have experimented with some composite band stitches that are new to me: Interlaced chain stitch, twisted lattice band, and the fancy herringbone stitch. The last is just a beautiful stitch band when you choose interesting fibers to work with that have contrasting qualities like thick [...]
Posted in Quilting, tagged crazy quilt, embroidery, stitches on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am happy to say that my Haiku crazy quilt block is finally finished. It’s a funny thing about crazy quilting, you can just keep adding one more stitch here or motif there. I had the most fun working the row of Cast-on Stitches. I just love those little flower petals that are created. I chose to make rows [...]
Posted in Quilting, tagged crazy quilt, needlework, stitching on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I need to recharge my batteries with some freeform, unstructured needlework playtime. No chart, no plan, no design, no bright idea. I realized last week, as I struggled through finishing the fourth Welcome Home Sampler, that the time has come. I was stitching most of the design without refering to the chart and I have it [...]
Posted in cross stitch designs, needlework, tagged crazy quilt, cross stitch designs, needlework, quilt on October 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Overall it has been a nice week, though I’ve been sidelined a bit with a cold and didn’t feel like posting. I made some very good progress on my Busy Bees needlework project. As promised, here is a picture of one of the projects - the needlebook- an inside view. This and the biscornu are my favorites of [...]
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