100 details for 100 days Day 91

The detail  for Day 91 features an embellishment that runs along the side of a piece of lace. It is quite simple as it consists of two rows of tied Herringbone stitch. In this sample I used a hand dyed cotton thread which is the same thickness as DMC perle #8. When I work Herringbone stitches like this, I call it a the feet to feet formation because the feet of the herringbone face each other. When you work two rows of herring bone feet to feet the rows form a handy gap along the middle which is an ideal place to add beads.

The hand dyed lace itself was also embroidered with a scattering of Detached Chain stitches. I simply picked out the pattern found in the lace and emphasised it. A seed bead is added to the floral motif in the lace to finish it off.

If you are just swinging by, or a search engine has landed you here, this is day 91 in a series of articles that aim to give you embellishment ideas that you can use in your crazy quilting. If you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category.

Have you enjoyed this series? If so you may be interested in  a tutorial I have written on how to work decorative crazy quilt seams. The tutorial is a comprehensive tutorial that I converted to a pdf file (a link to the download is in the article). When I converted it I realised how comprehensive it was. At 19 pages of information, it is a resource worth investigating!No sign up or anything required its a free resource without strings.

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