A commenter asked if the line below my day 1 detail was part of the design?…When I made the vest I had no idea what design was, I had seen one partially embroidered crazy quilt block, I had probably seen a photo of a victorian crazy quilt in a quilting book and I knew how to do the basic embroidery stitches, from there I was winging it and I suspect that when I was making the vest I did the line of chain stitch along the seam and then decided that the seam needed more and added the vine. So the line is a part of the crazy quilt design process of adding to a seam treatment until you like it but not a necessary part of the design as a seam treatment as illustrated by the seam on the other side of the vest where I used the same vine but instead of being beside the seam I wandered it across the seam.
Which brings me to my day 2 detail…It is interesting to look back and see that even when I had no idea of what I was doing I was using a mix of techniques and instinctively creating little pictures within the crazy…I created this one by doing short lines of brown Stem Stitch to represent the earth. The stems of the mushrooms are Satin Stitch the tops are done in Long and Short Stitch outlined with Stem Stitch to give them a neat edge. A few tiny green straight stitches become grass around the stem of the mushroom. The cloud is applique whish I stuffed to make it a little puffy, the rain is lines of light blue Stem Stitch with Detached Chain Stitch splashes as the rain runs of the mushrooms and hits the ground….I used DMC stranded embroidery threads for the embroidery and the mushroom charm was on a necklace from my teenage years…Umm I was also instinctively incorporating memorabilia into my crazy work.
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