If anyone is going to suffer withdrawal symptoms on Tuesdays there is Fluffly Fatbottom’s Twisted Tuesdays. Suzan and Heather run a Tuesday challenge of Postcard sized works of art. Inching Artists is challenge blog each Tuesday a theme is announced. To join in you simply upload your inchie art to …
A few weeks ago I posted an image of the block I worked from one of Vivian and Mary’s Heavenly Embellishment Bliss bags. Annie Whitsed and I were both given a choice of bags. The idea was to see what we could do with them. I am not associated in …
With this post the sample for day 100 is the last in The 100 details over 100 Days for Crazy Quilters. Since this is the finish line today we have a detail that is a little different. It feels like an end of an era! This is a small …
With this being the second last day in this series I thought I would feature a detail that is a bit different. What you are looking at is a piece of lace which has had the negative area of the pattern picked out in French knots. The threads used are …
For Day 98 we have another cluster of buttons which has been stitched at the edge of a doily. On this detail two seams can be seen. The first seam runs diagonally to the top of the photo. This seam embellishment is made up of sheaf stitch. Running diagonally towards the …
For Day 97 the detail I am featuring is another example of using rick rack in crazy quilting. The rick rack has been attached with Zig Zag Chain using DMC pearl #5 thread. I have stitched three straight stitches between the V’s of the braid, then topped with seed beads. …
The seam treatment for day 96 started life as a piece hand dyed lace that was in the form of a row hearts. this lace is a modern rayon lace that I used Procion dyes to colour it. As you can see in the photograph, the hearts are upside …
