I thought today I would highlight a way to work a wisteria like growth over your block. This is a cluster of French knots with the leaves worked in detached chain. If stitching French knots are a bit of challenge you can substitute either Colonial knots or seed beads. The …
The seam embellishment for day 22 in this series is worked over a band of lace. I first worked two rows of Chevron stitch in a thread which is actually hand dyed crochet cotton but is the same weight as DMC Pearl 5. I then worked straight stitches at the …
One of the amazing things about this series of post is that it has provoked so many interpretations and the daily dose of variety constantly makes it interesting. I notice that often it is the simple stitch combinations that produce the most interesting responses. Todays seam embellishment detail is extremely …
Susan of Plays with needles asked for a detail of the silk ribbon spray on the 8 inch crazy block I posted yesterday. So here it is. The flowers are worked in 7 mm Japanese Ribbon stitch. I don’t have directions to work this stitch online – it is on …
Today is a very simple detail as it is Open cretan stitch simply laced with a fine cord. If you want to see the block the it came from it is one of the 8 inch crazy blocks Detail 17 and 18 are from the same block too so you …
This was quite a cheap and nasty modern nylon lace which I interspaced novelty beads and half buttonhole wheels. It is quite a narrow lace so to add more visual weight to it I added straight stitches at the base and topped them off with French knots Scooting around the …
Today I thought I would highlight a button cluster on one of my blocks. Buttons act to draw the eye to an area so when ever you want to add emphasis to a spot a button or two – or perhaps a whole cluster will do it. This cluster has …
