Susan: Just Beading Left!

There are three sections I want to bead, but this is otherwise finished.



Last section worked:



Seam 67, borrowed from something I saw in 2015:



Seam 68, the orange one: needs beads:

Susan: CQJP2016, March Update

There was some inspiration for Seam 16, above, from a seam on Phyllis L's block. As usual, though, I got carried away and here it is. The purple is Sassa Lynne Fine Perle and the green in between is an Aurifil 12. Both are 100% cotton threads. The beads are glass Japanese delicas.

There's been a lot of talk about cotton fabrics in CQ blocks. I use only natural fabrics, usually cotton, silk dupioni and linen. This year's blocks are all linens pieced on cotton foundations.

Here's Seam 17, inspired by Cindy B's block. I didn't do the seam exactly the same as the left upper seam Cindy did, but similar. The seed stitching began as an idea to do running stitch around the lace heart, and went somewhere else.


The red-orange and the blue-purple are Sassa Lynne fine perle and the yellow is Aurifil 12, both 100% cotton. The beads are Japanese delicas.


The vine on Seam 18 is Valdani Perle 8, color JP 7, the greens are Sassa Lynne fine perles, and the beads are Japanese delica triangle beads. That one started out as something completely different-looking on the bottom of Flora B's block. Then I got carried away.

The whole block, just for Judy.

I apologize to everyone for not commenting on last week's posts. I did look at them, and I thought I'd come over and comment, but time got away from me and I just realized I never did. I'll do better this week.

Susan: CQJP2015 Update on Last Block

I sat with a friend while her husband was in surgery and got two small parts done, both of which still need beads. The corner was just doodling with straight stitches and feather stitching:

Corner 27:

This seam was just pure doodling. I was there with not much of a booklet for ideas, and the first set of Pintangle templates, and this is what happened. Sorry for the shadows, but the sun was shining so I thought I'd get better pictures outside. Ha, ha! I do better with the flash inside.

Seam 64:

Susan: CQJP2015 September Progress

Bad pictures. I'll try to get better ones tomorrow. This was all experimental. Some of it, I like. Some of it, not so much. Still, it's progress.

Seam 48, Seam 49, Corner 22, Corner 23:


Close up on Corners:

Susan: More June Seams

A bit more done - winding down block and month, trying to get no further behind!

Here's how Seam 41 played out, and the Corner 18 part with it.

And that's all that happened this week!

CQJP2015: March Block Update

Finally, almost halfway through May, I found some time to do a couple of seams on my March block.

Seam 16: Big Backstitch


This is not finished. It needs embellishment still, but I'm not sure what that will be yet.

Seam 17:


This one needs beads - triangle beads, I think, but I am so totally in love with it! I love the shape and the curve and the colors.

Susan: CQJP2015, January

Corner bit on each picture.

Whole block:

Susan: CQJP2015, Block 1

And no applause is needed, or even a comment. There's not much to say, is there? This is it, that's all there is.

Cy - Crazy Quilting at last

Phew! Finally I have some stitching to show you. 

We've been so busy here on the farm lately that I've not had much time left over for sewing.

The grass is almost ready for cutting and bailing again and that will be another busy time here at 'Lewis Acres'.

But for now, here is what I've been up to.

Crazy Quilting with 'Kathy Shaw' inspired seams plus a few 'personal flourishes' of my own.

Plenty of room left on these seams for the addition of beads and SRE.

I'm just waiting for the postman to bring my new supply of Silk Ribbons.

I had to order more because my original stash is packed away in sealed boxes in the shipping container, and no way am I going in there to start opening up already packed boxes, lol, assuming, of course, that I can find the 'correct' box.

And just in case you are wondering about the background fabric.... it is all my own hand dyed neutrals.

Happy Stitching

Cyra

Cy - Heart Crazy

Straight From the Heart Crazy Quilt

Week 27

This week I have a Kantha embroidery heart to show you.

Free Form style, drawing free-hand straight onto the fabric, gives this piece a traditional look.

The pale pink heart in the middle is rows of chain stitch.

Other stitches used are: running stitch, back stitch, satin stitch and emphasized couching (where the couching stitches comprise a design).

And a couple of blue 'bricks' on the Building Blocks quilt can be seen on my blog HERE

Now I must get a couple more days of packing done. Just got to get the house on the market, and then once sold, we can enjoy our travelling retirement.

Cy - Crazy Heart Quilt update

 Straight From the Heart Crazy Quilt 

Week 19

Applique heart with chain stitches laid side by side.

Week 20

Three textured crochet "buttons" and a running stitch border,

And as we here, in the Southern hemisphere are well on the way to winter, I crocheted up these squares (20 so far) to make a bodywarmer/tank-top/vest thingamigig.

The colours in the first photo are closer to the real colour.

A good week I think.

Happy Stitching

Susan: Corner Progress

I had only one day where I worked on CQ this week. Here's the corner stitching I did, which took forever and still needs more embellishing.

The green and yellow is Aurifil 12 wt. It's a good thread, but I still prefer Sassa Lynne. These are the only two colors in which I have this thread. I'll look for more, but that's simply because I'm a thread collector!

When this is finished, I pretty much just have the upper left corner to finish, two relative short seams, and a little more beading. So by May 1, I may be able to start on the March block. =P

Susan: Seams 53, 54, Embellishment 20

I'm excited about this week's work. Let's see how you feel.

Seam 53, seen on a block in Treasury of Crazy Quilt Stitches, Sassa Lynne threads:

Seam 54, using Carole Samples template, 32B; embellishers from p. 123, left side of page, 3rd row up from bottom (maybe 4th row, depends on how you look at it), but I opened up the chain stitches so they sort of look like tulips; tiny gold Delicas:

Seams 50, 53, 54 together:

Embellishment 20, pretty much made it up myself - used Sharon Boggon template for side curves, linen corner folded back:

Embellishment 20, linen corner in place:

Seams 53, 54, Embellishment 20 - love the way this looks!:

One more side seam, 3 across seams, and a corner, then this one is finished. Sorry, you can still see Frixion lines, haven't pressed the block yet. I think there will have to be a seam with silk ribbon roses. Aunt Bobbie loved roses. I dug holes for 200 bushes for her when I was a high school freshman.

Cy ~ Crazy Quilt week 4

 Straight From The Heart 

 Crazy Quilt Week 4 

A 'broken' heart gets mended.

 Crochet flowers with bullion knots and French knots.

Buttonhole wheels with whipped chain stitch.

Detail pics are on my blog here.

Auditions for the backing fabric for this project are taking place.

Susan: September Seams

Just two this week, but that's better than zero! The red is not really neon, but it is on the bright side. And that's not electric blue, just true patriotic blue.

Susan: CQJP April Progress

Here are the seams done so far: First one is copied almost exactly from Ati in Norway, only hers was delicate pinks and greens, and curvier somehow, and only embellished on one side.

 

Second was copied from two different seams, slightly different take on it, and I don't know who either of them were, but mine is yet a third way to do it.

 

 The third one is only half done. I cropped out the part with the needle stuck in it. This one was also copied from someone, but the photo was a long time ago, and they only had the DSC_number on the photo. It's also turning out a little different, of course!

  

Now here's the whole block and you see the shameful part-finished seam.

Cy - And another block bites the dust

Work on the crazy quilt is ongoing.

Trying hard to catch-up and get the last couple of blocks completed during the first half of January, so that I can then stitch them together into my wall hanging before the end of January.

Progress has been made on the October block over the last two days.

Here is where I am at the moment - almost complete. 

Freestyle Rhodes Stitch

Dice - inspiration for this came from the silver dice that was in my Christmas cracker.

The Crochet piece for this block. With a row of Chain Stitch at the base.

An Invented Stitch - probably been invented before I created it, but it is not in any book of instructions that I know of. Starts as a 'sort of' ladder stitch but with a knot on each side that 'pulls the stitch into a 'blocky' looking zig-zag.

Cast-On Stitch in a variegated mercerized cotton.

Royal blue ribbon couched down with thinner black ribbon. (beads have been added since this photo).

The central butterfly needs finishing. Then on to the next block. 

I'm hoping to get one block a week done now until I catch up, so you should expect to see a block reveal for each of the next two weeks.

Got to give myself this goal so that I can bite away at it and finish along with the rest of you here.

Here are the (almost) complete block pics.

I might add a little more bling after I've done the next two blocks.

Wahoo! the end is in sight now.

Happy Stitching