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. …

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 …

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 …