Month: August 2006

Symbols.com


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Over on crazyquiltingfriends a yahoo discussion the topic of Kantha work has lead to a discussion on including autobiographical elements and symbols in textiles which leads me to Symbols.Com. Symbols.com is a great resource for anyone interested in including personal symbolism in their textile practice. This site is also great …

100 details for 100 days Day 64


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This seam embellishment started off with a piece of lace that had a V like edge. I decided I was going to emphasise the V pattern and at the base of the lave worked two rows of straight stitches in a horizontal arrow stitch formation. These were worked in DMC …

5 Ways to Block Your Creativity


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I usually steer clear of pep talks and particularly pep talks about being creative. I prefer to get on with it but I tripped over YourCre8tivity.com which is a blog on creativity. Most articles on creativity talk about nurturing your creativity this list talks about 5 Ways to Block Your …

100 details for 100 days Day 63


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This seam embellishment is a treatment for an unusual triple rick rack I received in a swap. I stitched French knots down the middle in a thread the same weight as DMC pearl 12.On the side of the rick rack I added five detached chain stitches arranged around a bugle …

Tips from Sophie Gelphi


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Many crazy quilters know Sophie Gelfi. I received an email to say that Sophi has a new website that provides tips and tutorials online. If English is your main language you will need to use a translator I used googles translating tool

100 details for 100 days Day 62


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Today I have a seam embellishment which is a piece of lace that has been beaded between the main motifs.Along the edge I have worked Pekinese stitch in two contrasting threads. The first is DMC pearl 8 which is laced with a metallic braid. In the round up for today …

100 details for 100 days Day 61


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This featured seam embellishment Is a simple seam treatment that was started with a row of Herringbone which was worked to hold down some atin ribbon. The row was then tied with small crosses worked in contrasting thread. One one side a series of straight stitches were topped off with …