This seam is Feather Stitch with a second stitch on each stitch to form V shapes…The V Shapes are filled with a silk ribbon straight stitch with the needle being put down through the ribbon but not pulled tight so that the ribbon just starts to roll on the end.
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Mine is the 3rd birthday I have blogged this month and that is less than half of my families October births.
I had a lovely afternoon visiting Sharon after which, with my niece, I mixed up a batch of cement for my castle (there is a castle update in the draft copy), I have been told how to mix it from the cement powder and sand rather than the premixed bags I have been buying and I just wanted to do a batch to see if it would work for me and it did.
I also spent a lot of time on the phone with family and friends. The image is my present from a friend who knows me well, knows that it is a long time since I had a pair of dressmaking sized scissors, it is ridicules to be cutting fabric with tiny scissors but whenever I do visit the Scissor Man, it is always the new embroidery scissors that I leave with…Maybe now that I have the proper scissors for the job, my embroidery scissors will stay sharp longer but I now have no excuse for not making the new curtains for my lounge…And with the scissors, a transplanting trowel, just the best tool for getting long rooted weeds out of the garden.
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I love it when I can Hide things within my crazy quilting, when well hidden most people wont even see them but I like the idea that they are there for the very observant to find…This very tiny angel has hidden away very nicely fitting into the printed oval on one of the books.
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It has been a BEAUTIFUL Spring day and I spent most of it in the garden.
The photo is some of the Sweet Peas that I planted and recorded on my sampler on St Patricks day.
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This is another variation of Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch which I have stitched with a Ribbon Floss…Only half a row of this variation on my sampler because that is all the ribbon floss that I had left.
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I have this fabric, with USA Christmas stamps on it, from a swap years ago and the stamps are just perfect for helping me make the 2 stockings visually different, I have put the cream backed stamp at the bottom of the cream music fabric to visually increase the size of the cream patch at the same time I have been reduceing the size of the cream patch on the other stocking…The green backed stamp I have put on the green star patch where it keeps the patch green but reduces the intensity of the stars…The red reindeer button matches with the same button on one of the other stockings and I have added a sun button above the train which pairs with the moon charm on another of the stockings.
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Scrunched Ribbon with Beads…I took the sampler photo when it was only half beaded so that you can see how I tack the ribbon on roughly and then go back over and bead it into shape.
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Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch is a stitch that I use frequently since Sharon introduced me to it about the same time that I was making the first 4 stockings, it is a versatile stitch, has a nice flow to it and can be further dressed up with beads.
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The inspiration for this seam treatment comes from the ribbon printed on the fabric, I love how it interacts with the fabric patch, and on my sampler I love the line it forms even without the fabric…I so loved this seam that I decided that it had to go on the second stocking too.
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This seam is a Buttonhole stitch variation and is already on my sampler.
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