Shimmying through life with needles and thread…
I’ve come down with a head cold. Too stuffed up to concentrate on editing green photos to post. Will try to get them done tomorrow.
In the meantime, somehow stitching crazy quilt seams isn’t nearly as dizzy-making as trying to work on the computer. So back to that! More photos soon, I promise.
That I forgot I had done!!
I was trying to pull stuff together to start embellishing those blocks for the Encrusted Crazy Quilt class… And found a block that I’d started and not finished a while ago. There were two little seams left to finish. So as a warm up to stitching the new one, I finished it.
It’s very simple as crazy blocks go, intended as a large pillow for the living room. Made out of cotton decor fabric I was given by an interior designer from old samples (make friends — they give you WONDERFUL fabric!!) and embroidered entirely in cotton 6 strand floss, I think it will make a lovely pillow. Detail photos below. Click any of them to view larger.
Block 1
I am taking Sharon Boggin’s Encrusted Crazy Quilt class this month through Joggles. Despite all the bellydance workshops and shows this week, I managed to get two blocks pieced.
The first wasn’t as successful as the second, initial design-wise, but I’m hoping I can fix some of the problems in the embellishment stage: the most glaring being the horizontal line a third of the way down that goes all the way across the block! That came from using a block that was too big as my first block, and putting it down too close to the bottom of the block off the bat… Lesson learned. But I REALLY wanted to use the entire leaf!
Block 2
The second block is better balanced, but to my eye it seems VERY busy. Of course, I was told to “overload” it, so this may be a good thing!
As usual, click to make bigger.