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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 I have been working in my garden this week, cleaning it up and getting it ready for my sister and a couple of friends that I had invited over for afternoon tea.
We have had some lovely rain in the last couple of nights and the garden is looking lovely, unfortunatly the rain also meant that it was overcast and to cold to be outside so we ended up having an indoor teaparty, around my studio table…I say we because my neice and her friend came over early and to help, they arranged the food on the plates, helped make the egg sandwichs and set the table…they also helped me cook Lemonade Scones which we did at the last minute so that we could eat them hot and they all got eaten before I thought to take a photo.
Holiday Snaps Day 8
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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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 For this seam I have used the Lace Border Stitch and flipped it from side to side…I was going to bead it as I did with detail 410 but when I looked at the seam in contents of the whole the area it is located is the most likely area for me to put a bead trail and to have beads on this seam as well would congest the background of the bead trail so I have left my options open and not used beads.
Holiday snaps day 5
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