TAST Week 9

Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 9 Basic TAST The challenge this week, is to experiment with Buttonhole Wheel which is a fun and easy stitch. I often use these to form small floral sprays making them useful stitches for crazy quilting and surface embroidery, but you can also use them …

Crazy quilt stitch along Tumbling Block 14

Tumbling block 14 sits third row down on the right hand side of the Diamonds are forever quilt. This month we will make four diamonds as there is a dark diamond sitting on the right that is a continuation of the tumbling block pattern. In other words we are making …

TAST Week 6 and February Design Challenge

The stitch for Basic TAST week 6 is Fly Stitch. I made the sample above using 5 layers of chiffon and netting stitched over with mainly Fly Stitch. Much of the grass/reeds areas are also fly stitch. By mixing the thickness and type of threads I gave it more visual …

Crazy quilt stitch along Tumbling Block 13

Tumbling block 13 sits in the middle of the third row down on the ‘Diamonds are Forever‘ quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the block. Here are the light tone diamond , the mid tone diamond, and the dark tone diamond. Just to …

Crazy quilt stitch along Tumbling Block 12

Tumbling block 12 is actually the block of 3 diamonds and an extra mid-tone diamond that takes the design to the edge of the quilt. This unit sits on the third row down on the left-hand side of the Diamonds are Forever quilt. You can download the patterns for the …

Crazy quilt stitch along Tumbling Block 11

We are up to Tumbling block 11 which sits at the third row down, on the right-hand side of the Diamonds are Forever quilt. In the photo below you can see the block outlined on the quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the …

Crazy quilt stitch along Tumbling block 10

Tumbling block 10 sits on the third row down towards the right-hand side of the Diamonds are forever quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the block. Here are the light-tone diamond; the mid-tone diamond; and the dark-tone diamond. Just to remind you that …