100 details for 100 days Day 73

This detail is an embellishment for Rick Rack. First the Rick Rack was attached over the seam with small stitches to hold it in place while the embroidery was being worked. Over the braid a series of single detached chain stitches were worked on an angle using DMC pearl 5 …

100 details for 100 days Day 72

The detail featured today is actually two. The first is the texture behind the buttons and the second is the button cluster itself which has a bead tassel. This is the 6 inch crazy quilt block it came from. Many people simply stitch on a few buttons I like to …

A prune or a pickle the process of working up a small design

  Who sticks their tongue out when they are trying to concentrate? Or when they draw? I do and I have been thinking/drawing so hard my tongue is all dried up I am sure it looks like a prune or perhaps a pickle. I have been working up a few …

100 details for 100 days Day 71

This seam embellishment starts off with a row of Herringbone worked in a thread the same weight as DMC pearl 5. The next row of Chevron stitch is worked over the herringbone in thread of the same weight. The chevron is spaced so that the bars are between the herringbone. …