For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Band 326

  For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Band 326 is a seam on a section of crazy quilting. The seam has been covered with a commercial ribbon. I liked the ruffled effect and so I decided to take advantage of it. I coverd the seam with ribbon, securing it with small basting stitches. …

Needlecases on Stitchin Fingers

Note Unfortunately Stitchin Fingers no longer exists as the site closed late 2016 so I have removed the links in this post Totally on the spur of the the moment I proposed people load a photo of their favourite needle case to the photos section of Stitchin Fingers and tag …

Introducing block 27 on the “I dropped the button box” quilt

I am so pleased to be introducing block 27 because by the end I think block 26 was making me wince a little too much. As I said when I introduced block 26 I used many fabrics not often used in crazy quilting. Me and my “you can use anything …

For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Band 325

Stitches This seam on section 25  has been covered with a braid then I added French knots, straight stitches and detached chain stitches. Thread:  The thread is a hand dyed is perle 8 cotton thread Dyes: The cotton perle was dyed with procion dyes. Date: This section of the sampler was worked during …

CQ Detail 176

Detail: This button cluster is the last detail for block 26. It sits at the intersection of pieces 2, 6 and 8. You can see the block here in the article where I introduced block 26. What is the story? This regularly published series aims to illustrate and document the hand embroidered seams, embellishments …

For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Band 324

Stitches This is area on section 25 of my band sampler is covered with an old piece of hand made lace. The Vintage buttons actually cover a tear in the lace as I found it in a second had shop. Make a cuppa and I will tell you the story.  The old …