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    This is Annie Whitsed's Crazy World a world where I stitch the joys and chaos of life into beautifull crazy quilts. email annie@loopylace.com
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Nativity Calendar 8th December – Detail 963 December 8th, 2009

Nativity calendar 8th December

I was unable to find a small enough pattern for an angel so I designed my own.

Nativity Calendar 7th December – Detail 962 December 7th, 2009

Nativity calendar 7th December

Cross Stitch Lettering

My Band Sampler 175 – Detail 961 – Master Chef December 7th, 2009

master chef

My sister and I very much enjoyed watching Master Chef Australia and I thought that their logo would look good embroidered, as it turned out after outlining the shape with stem stitch, the work had pulled in so much and every row around to fill it in was going to pull more, rather than have that happen I used acrlyic paint to fill it in.

The image also shows the hem at the bottom as this is the end of the 8th Panel

the first 8 panels of my sampler

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Nativity Calendar 6th December – Detail 960 December 6th, 2009

Back Stitch

Nativity Calendar 5th December – Detail 959 December 5th, 2009

Nativity calendar 5th December

Holly Leaf with Berries

My Band Sampler 174 – Details 957 and 958 – La Tour De France December 5th, 2009

Last year for the tour I did a detailed embroidery of a street scene, it took a long time to stitch, this year I didn’t have as much time and had to think of a simpler design, I ended up playing around with the bike design, making it a bit smaller and repeating it in different colours.

La Tour De France

from the cover of the leper of st giles

To adapt this cadfael design to my sampler I had to simplify the lines, I also turned it upside down because it looked visually better that way.

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Nativity Calendar 4th December – Detail 956 December 4th, 2009

Nativity calendar 3rd December - cross stitch blue bird

cross stitch Blue Bird

My Band Sampler 173 – Details 954 and 955 – Luk Chai December 4th, 2009

One of my many collections is elephants, I love them and when I heard that a baby elephant had been born in Australia I couldn’t resist recording his birth on my sampler, he was named Luk chai.

Baby Elephant Luk Chai

Design on cover of book

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Nativity Calendar 3rd December – cross stitch gift – Detail 953 December 3rd, 2009

Nativity calendar 3rd December - cross stitch gift

My Band Sampler 172 – Details 950 to 952 December 3rd, 2009

Pattern on the cover of A Rare Benedictine

This Pattern is one of my favourites and it is the one that has given me the most problem adapting it to embroidery. Firstly I found that I had to enlarge the pattern to have any hope of reproducing its detail (top line), then that I had to simplify it to get clear detail (bottom line)

I have included a memory to Michael Jackson for my daughter who has grown up listening to his music, The Badge is one from her collection of memorabilia.

remembering Michael Jackson on My Sampler

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