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zaterdag 30 januari 2010
Thorn stitch
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donderdag 28 januari 2010
Heather
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woensdag 27 januari 2010
Sunflower dotee
Yesterday my first swap of 2010 arrived from Latvia. Kati made a beautiful dotee for me. She used seed beads for her face, I like it very much. When I tried to make a picture, Cindy was very curious!
I have put my new dotee on my daughter’s blanket for this picture, just because it’s very black. The blanket is not finished yet, only 11 squares to make! This morning I have set a timer when I started a new square; it took me 12 minutes.
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dinsdag 26 januari 2010
Chain braid stitch
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maandag 25 januari 2010
Flip flop
I made this crazy flip flop ornament for a friends birthday. It is stretched over 2 old CD’s with some batting on the front and without the batting on the back. Then I sewed them together with a hanging loop and decorated this seam with some ribbon.
This is a close-up of the drizzle stitches. There’s a bigger picture of the ornament on my Flickr-page with info about the stitches.
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zondag 24 januari 2010
Pekinese stitch
I first tried this stitch on an evenweave fabric with perle 5. I made a Pekinese stitch in yellow and red (bottom) and a double Pekinese stitch in red (top). They both have green backstitches.
My second experiment was a Pekinese stitch on a circle. I used a piece of unbleached cotton and 3 threads of stranded DMC in 2 shades of green.
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zaterdag 23 januari 2010
Work In Slow Progress 3
First the bad news! While I was sewing the binding to this little quilt, I saw some damage on 2 places! To draw the quilting lines I used a marker that you can remove with an iron. The marker disappeared, but it left a bleached line! This happened because I used fabric that was not washed, so the chemicals in the fabric reacted on the chemicals in the marker. On the white fabric I used a water soluble marker. The water I had to use to remove it made the red fabric bleed to the white fabric beside! Luckily I didn’t use much water, so it’s not so obvious.
And now the good news! Hidden in the back of my cupboard I found the embroidery for the label I made a long time ago. I used a pattern from the same book as the other patterns.
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vrijdag 22 januari 2010
New fabric
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woensdag 20 januari 2010
Zig zag Spanish knotted stitch
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maandag 18 januari 2010
Work In Slow Progress 2
As I wrote last Friday, I made some great progress on my Dear Jane quilt. I only need to quilt another corner triangle, a triangle on the right side and 7 triangles between the patched ones!
This time I want to show you a small scrapquilt I started in 2005. The blocks are 10 x 10 cm (4 x 4 inch), the sashing is 2 cm (about 0,75 inch) and the border is going to be 3 cm (about 1,25 inch). For the boy on the right I used a webextra pattern of Quiltmaker Magazine. The other patterns are from my book ‘501 Quilt blocks’ by Joan Lewis and Lynette Chiles. I used scraps I got from my quilting friends and added my own fabric for the border. The sashing is pieced on a foundation (rasterquick). The quilting is done and the border is tied with tiny buttons. Now it only needs a binding, a hanging sleeve and a label!
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zaterdag 16 januari 2010
Drizzle stitch
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vrijdag 15 januari 2010
An old and a new friend
Yesterday I spent my morning quilting the top right corner of my Dear Jane quilt. I neglected her for many months, but I promised her to spent more time together. This corner was a great start, because it needed a lot of stitches. On the picture you can see it with a triangle I quilted last year, but I forgot to take a picture.
After that it was a small step to introduce Jane to my new jar. I bought it a few months ago to use as a button jar, but I thought it’s a great TUSAL-jar.
I started on 3 January 2010 with the twisted satin stitch. I also made a scissorfob for my daughter and I tried 2 TAST stitches: the drizzle stitch and the zigzag Spanish knotted stitch. I will write about them later.
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donderdag 14 januari 2010
Empty room
maandag 11 januari 2010
zondag 10 januari 2010
Twisted satin stitch
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I also found this stitch in my embroidery book ‘Embroidery Stitches’ by Mary Webb and she suggested to use 2 colours or a coarse thread to highlight the twist. I made 2 rows of satin stitches in perle 5 to try that, one in black and one in green. For the green row I used yellow perle 5 for the twist and I altered the direction in some stitches. For the black row I used green perle 5 for the first 8 stitches and pink knitting yarn (Himalaya Evan from this cardigan) for the remaining stitches. The row in orange DMC broder special and yellow perle 5 is a variation. Instead of going through the same holes to make the twist I went through the fabric a little left at the bottom and right at the top. Then I tried some beaded stitches with orange DMC broder special. First a few like Sharon described and then I added another bead after the twist before you make the last stitch. It’s a nice stitch for my crazy quilting.
zaterdag 9 januari 2010
Pot-holders and a blanket
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vrijdag 8 januari 2010
Lace border stitch
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donderdag 7 januari 2010
Notions
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dinsdag 5 januari 2010
Linked double chain stitch
This was my next TAST stitch. First I tried it with different threats (from top to bottom): DMC broder special, 3 threads of stranded DMC, perle 5 and organza ribbon. On the left I made a variation with perle 5.
A few days later I made an ATC with this stitch on red felt and purple perle 5. First I embroidered a felt orange circle down with buttonhole stitches. I used those as a starting point for my linked double chain stitches. As a finishing touch I added some yellow beads.
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maandag 4 januari 2010
Draft Threat
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zondag 3 januari 2010
Reversed buttonhole bar
During the holidays I took some time to work on the old TAST, because Sharon is starting a new one in March! If you want to now more about it, just read it on Pintangle.
The next stitch was the reversed buttonhole bar and I made two examples. The bottom one is in yellow perle 5 with 4 threads of stranded purple floss. The top one is curved and I used perle 5 in pink and green.
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zaterdag 2 januari 2010
Work In Slow Progress 1
This year I wanted to give myself a boost to finish a few of my projects I started through the years. There are a few of them on my blog already. In January 2008 I wrote my last post (only in Dutch) about my Fancy cats quilt, but I never showed the result. The top is not finished yet, it still needs a border. In June 2008 I finished a wrought-iron gate with a cottage on the background fabric. I didn’t know what to do with it and I still don’t know. In August 2008 I wrote about a trapunto pillow. After that I finished the quilting part and forgot all about it! And in April 2009 I wrote my last post about my Dear Jane quilt. After that I quilted a few triangles, but it still isn’t finished!
But there’s more! From time to time I want to show you some of my work in slow progress (WISP). I don’t want to call them UFO’s (UnFinished Objects), because I’m still working on them! Today I want to show you a special embroidery project I started in 1981!!! It’s an embroidery of the Gorse Fairies (35 x 45 cm or 14 x 18 inch) and it was a birthday present from my DH, at that time my boyfriend. I haven’t seen it for many years and I looked at it a few weeks ago. I carefully ironed it on the back and made a picture. The bigger part of it is done, so I really want to finish it this year.
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