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 …
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 …
Todays featured seam embellishment was started with a foundation row of buttonhole stitch which was worked in a thread the same weight as DMC pearl 8. On one side I worked a small caston stitch and on the other three Bullion stitches. Both these stitches were worked in a thread …
This small detail on a crazy quilt block is worked along the side of a wide ribbon. On one side I worked two rows of Herringbone stitch on top of each other. One row is thin and the other fat and both rows are tied at the cross with a …
Robin of Beadlust indirectly provoked me to highlight this detail, as yesterday, Robin was thinking about the colour yellow. I decided to see what blocks I had worked with a colour scheme in which yellow dominates. I found a few yellowish blocks in the I dropped the button box quilt. …
These are two simple seam embellishments with a spider in the center. As I am sure most crazy quilters know spiders on crazy quilts represent good luck. This is simply a charm. The web is worked in a metalic thread. The seam treatment towards the top of the detail is …
Today we have 2 images as Lin Moon left a comment about the detail I posted on day 52 . Lin Moon asked me to feature a close up of this seam embellishment. Today I have finally found time to dig it out. This is a row of stepped running …
