I belong to a wonderful group of tatters and our list mum kindly organised a swap which we all opened today. My box has been here waiting for me for quite some time, and it was terribly difficult not to cheat and open it early!
However I resisted the temptation and left it intact until today.
So [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Christmas in July!
Posted in Tatting, tagged Christmas, Tatting on July 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Combining embroidery stitches
Posted in Crazy Patchwork, Round Robins, Stitches, tagged chevron stitch, french knots, seams on July 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Crazy Quilt Sampler Round Robin that I am participating in adds new stitches each time we work on a block. This time it is french knots and chevron stitch, but we can also include the stitches from previous months in our work.
After using french knots in my butterfly the other day, I decided to [...]
French knot butterfly
Posted in Crazy Patchwork, Round Robins, Stitches, tagged butterfly, french knots, herringbone stitch on July 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I sat and doodled with the needle last night and created this little butterfly on Wendy’s crazy quilt block.
The upper wings are French knots, the body is herringbone stitch, and I used satin stitch for the lower wings. The antenna are worked in stem stitch with french knots at the ends.
My husband thought it was [...]
Christmas in July
Posted in Tatting, tagged Tatting on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although not strictly needlework, as I am using a shuttle, tatting kept me busy yesterday. Tatting is a form of knotted lace which can be worked on a needle.
I can’t show you what I was making yet, as it is a gift for my exchange partner in our Christmas in July event. We have to [...]
Crazy Quilt round robin
Posted in Crazy Patchwork, Round Robins on July 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The next block has arrived from the Crazy Quilt round robin group. This is Wendy’s block before I add my work to it. This time around the stitches to play with are chevron and French knots.
Now I have to put my thinking cap on and see how I can use the stitches creatively on this [...]
Sampler Round Robin – Cretan Stitch
Posted in Crazy Patchwork, Round Robins, Stitches on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am taking part in a Crazy Quilt Round Robin where we practise certain stitches each month. Last month the stitches were cretan stitch and spidersweb roses.
I worked on a block belonging to Amy and the photo below shows my first section.
For my second area I used two rows of cretan stitch, in cream silk [...]
Welcome to my new blog
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi,
Welcome to my new blog. All posts will be made here in future. You can see my old blog here. I have changed over because the system used to add posts to the old blog was difficult and didn’t encourage me to post regularly.
So what will you find here? Well you can see the progress [...]
