Hi Dear Folk,
It's been a contemplative quiet time off, grey skies, writing letters, listening to BBC Radio and crocheting. I did get some jewelry drawers sorted out, which I had promised myself I would get to for a while. I have all these lovely broaches, but always seem to be in too much of a rush to find the one I want, so now they are all laid out and that gave me room to lay out my earrings, and now with one quick look I can find what I want without routing through. Yippee!
I do love patch work quilts, but I just like to quietly sit and hand sew, come at put it down, pick it up when the mood takes me, so something irregular without a pattern suits me, hence a crazy quilt. Just uses up all those odd bits of fabric.
I like the rhythm of feather stitch.
Something that caught my eye in one of my needlework books was Japanese straight stitch, and on a crazy quilt if you want to add Japanese stitches you can. I like the rippled affect it gives like the sand on the waters edge, rippled by the waves.
Christy
It's been a contemplative quiet time off, grey skies, writing letters, listening to BBC Radio and crocheting. I did get some jewelry drawers sorted out, which I had promised myself I would get to for a while. I have all these lovely broaches, but always seem to be in too much of a rush to find the one I want, so now they are all laid out and that gave me room to lay out my earrings, and now with one quick look I can find what I want without routing through. Yippee!
I do love patch work quilts, but I just like to quietly sit and hand sew, come at put it down, pick it up when the mood takes me, so something irregular without a pattern suits me, hence a crazy quilt. Just uses up all those odd bits of fabric.
I like the rhythm of feather stitch.
Something that caught my eye in one of my needlework books was Japanese straight stitch, and on a crazy quilt if you want to add Japanese stitches you can. I like the rippled affect it gives like the sand on the waters edge, rippled by the waves.
Christy
I think I like the feather stitch best!
ReplyDeleteI like your crazy quilt. So much more interesting than 'cute' colours and streamlined patterns
ReplyDeleteBeautiful stitching my friend.
ReplyDeleteSorting my jewellery is on my to do list. Like you i want to see it all at a glance. I love your crazy quilt. I prefer hand sewing too.i will have to look up the Japanese stitch.
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