When I started this seam it was going to be the ric-rac held on with herringbone stitch and trimmed with french knots…
With a loop on the right so the I could poke the end of the ric-rac under itself…
When I made the loop I thought instead of cutting it short I could twist the ric-rac for the length of the seam…When I started twisting the ric rac I thought umm if I can make a loop at the end I could maybe make extra loops along the length…I liked the shape that it formed and kept the trim simple, using each loop as a background to a pink crystal with green seed beads.
A very different seam to what I started to do.
Holiday Snaps Day 19
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I chose to do TAST week 42 twisted Satin Stitch on a sample block because I was thinking little flowers and couldn’t see them on any one patch of the pink project
Elizabeth’s comment re detail 421 ‘They look like little pink rosebuds scattered everywhere to me’, gave me a Duh moment as I thought they didn’t have to be confined to a patch they could be scattered everywhere or along a path as the rose petals where on the wedding day…I have added a pathway of scattered rose petals across the bottom of the block…by starting them under the Ooh La La detail they also assist in bringing the eye back around into the block
Holiday Snaps Day 15
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I Don’t particularly like stitches with straight edges so when I saw Sharon’s sample of Pekinese Stitch with 3 rows of backstich I thought OK I will do a solid centre line, with staggered outside rows…It didn’t work quite as I had imagined and I don’t really like the finished seam but having said that it does suit the seam that I did it on.
Holiday Snaps Day 14
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Doing a little catch up on the missed TAST Stitches. This one is the Twisted Satin Stitch from week 42…My first thought for this stitch was to do it with green thread and bead so that it would look like little flowers scattered across a patch.
Holiday Snaps Day 13
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When I start an embellishment it doesn’t mean that I know what the finished embellishment will look like, often I have no idea…
I purhased this ‘Ooh La La’ ribbon (1/2 inch wide) in the Vivian Westwood exhibition shop at the Victoria Albert Museum when I was in London in 2004…It is the right colour, I like the words, It would cover a small glitch in the piecing under the photo and I stitched it in place and that might have been that except that I didn’t like how the end looked…
…Maybe a few Silk Ribbon Roses, and I will need a few on the other corner to balance them…
…Needs some smaller roses, some the same but with only 1/2 inch of ribbon gathered and some Colonial knots in a lighter colour pink…
…That’s better now it just needs some little green straight stitch leaves…
  
…I thought with the leaves I was finished…but when I looked at it in relation to the whole block it looked cramped above the seam…what to do…add more roses so that they crossed the seam putting the seam into the background.
Holiday Snaps Day 12
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 I made this miniature quilt (1.5 x 1.8 inches) for my son in 2002 when he was traveling overseas and I wanted to make him something, small enough to carry easily, that would remind him of home.
I didn’t get a good photo of it at the time, so when I was visiting him and noticed that he still has it on display in his room, I took the opportunity to take a photo…It also inspired me to pull out the holiday buzy box and make thong brooches (see holiday snaps day 11), as memories of Magnetic Island for some people that I met up there.
Holiday Snaps Day 11
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This seam is the TAST week 44 – Zig Zag Spanish Knotted stitch, I used a varigated stranded cotton thread and like the gentle curve it forms.
Holiday Snaps Day 10
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 For this Ribbon Bow I put 2 colours of silk ribbon together, then treated them as a single ribbon, to get the colour change as I flipped it from side to side…As it will be the only embellishment in the top right corner I added a heart to the bow to draw the eye.
Holiday Snaps Day 9
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A this seam will also be under the the bow I have chosen another neutral stitch…Zig-Zag Chain stitch with only a slight zig-zag.
Holiday Snaps Day 7
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I am going to put a bow on the bottom part of this seam and as I want the bow to be the focal point I wanted a neutral seam behind it, I have chosen a thread that is a close match to one of the fabrics and started doing a Cretan Stitch after taking the first couple of stitches I realized that I could make a Twisted Satin Chain (TAST week 42) on each stitch, with the thread that I was useing the extra bulk of the Twisted Satin doesn’t make much of a visual difference to the Cretan Stitch but it has given it a nice texture.
Holiday Snaps Day 6
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