I used the piece of gold ribbon floss from the heavenly embellishments bag to do this Buttonhole stitch variation and added beads to emphasize the different lengths of the stitches.
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I stitched a seam today but have been plying with the camera and have flattened the Batteries and can’t recharge them untill I borrow a german 2 plug to Australian 3 plug power cord converter….In the mean time this is another seam on the crazy quilt that I am making for my mum.
2 rows of Fly stitches with long seal off stitches that make them look like Ys.
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 Embroidering on the patches is something that I have not done very often but always like it when I see it, which I did last night on Mary’s block where she had scattered stars across a patch, I am doing stars on the brown patch but got side tracked by thinking about detached Chain stitch, Sharon’sTAST stitch for this week…I used 2 detached chains and a colonial knot to create a small flower which I scattered randomly on the patch. I put one flower in the next patch across, it gives the hint that the flowers are embroidered and not a part of the fabric but more importantly it moves the eye around, further disguising the long line of seam that I had down the middle of the block.
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 At tonights Canberra Crazy Quilters meeting we had a mini lesson and we all made one of these sweet little beaded strawberries.
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This afternoon I did another search of the net and this time I found the English version of the manual for the Camera that I have borrowed, it took me a bit of fiddleing to get it printed, I cut A4 paper into quaters to get the right size paper and to bind it I had to split it into 2 parts because it was to big for the binding spirals…now I just have to study it.
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Blanket Stitch…Such a versatile stitch here I have done it with different lengthed stitches and alternating the side of the seam that it is stitched on.
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 To start with I did a seam of lazy daisys which is detached Chain Stitch with French knots in the centres.
I then took a gold ring that was in the Heavenly Embellishments Bag and attached it with 2 coloured detached chain sealed with long stithes…
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I found a review of the camera that describes all the functions and how to control the menus so I have been able to turn it on and use the auto feature to take photos of my TAST stitches.
I started with these half buttonhole wheel fans which I have stitched onto my heavenly embellisments block.
 And then to push the stitch further I have done several rows of buttonhole to create a fan shape which I have trimmed with fly stitches sealed with colonial knots and a 2mm silk ribbon bow.
I have stitched this larger fan onto my Box Top which you can see in the Box Top Category and you can see the stitches that I have done thus far on this project, about 20 seams, on the embroidery page of my website
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Today I borrowed a card reader that has a slot that fits my camera card but alas while the card fits the slot my computer can’t/wont read what is on it, so my camera is still out of action…but the same friend who lent me the card reader is going to Sydney for a month and has lent me his camera, it is a Canon PowerShot Pro 1, which is really rather exciting as it is a much more sophisticted camera than mine, now I just have to learn how to use it but first I have to search the internet for an instruction manuel because the manual with it is written in German…Guess what I will be doing tomorrow??
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last week when
Sharon celebrated 3 years of Blogging and commented that ‘The tradition on an anniversary is to link to your first post’, I was reminded that I had never finished transfereing my old blog entries when I moved to my loopylace blog…I had saved all the files before it disappeared from cyber space and yesturday when I was looking through those files to find the gardening entries to put in the garden journal that I have started and as it happens one thing leads to another and while I had the files open I started transfering them onto wordpress, for each entry I need to copy and paste the words, upload the images, put them into appropriate catagory and edit the time stamp, once I had the rhythm going I got through them much quicker than I would have expected. For those that didn’t read my blog then they are the Achive entries prior to Sep 2005.
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