For day 85 of 100 crazy quilt details I am featuring a simple easy to work seam embellishment. I worked both sides of a strip of hand dyed cotton lace which covers the seam. I could have easily sone the same thing along the side of a ribbon stitched along the …
As you can see todays detail features a piece of tatting which has been used to along a seam. At the top of the tatting there are clusters of three detached chain stitches worked in a thread the same weight as DMC 8. A bead has been stitched to base. …
The seam embellishment for today is similar to yesterday’s as it is an embellishment for lace that covers a seam. After stitching the lace down I then picked out the design in the lace using back stitch. The thread used is DMC pearl 5. The same thread was used to …
Today I am featuring a simple seam embellishment. As you can see straight stitches have been arranged at along the edge of some lace that covers the seam. In hand dyed thread that is the same weight as DMC pearl 8, I added French knots arranged in a bunch. Two …
The seam embellishment for 100 details for 100 days Day 71 starts off with a row of Herringbone stitches. These stitches are worked in a hand dyed thread that is the same thickness as DMC pearl #5. The next row of Chevron stitch is worked over the Herringbone stitches. I …
This seam embellishment is a development of yesterdays detail as it two rows of Herringbone worked back to back in a thread the same weight as DMC pearl 5. They are then interlaced with rayon ribbon. The lacing pattern is the same technique used in Twisted lattice band. Above the …
This seam embellishment looks a little complicated but it is not. It is a row of Herringbone worked in a thread the same weight as DMC pearl 5. This row was then interlaced with silk ribbon. The lacing pattern is the same technique used in Twisted lattice band. Above the …
