My first seam today Bullion Knots which is this weeks TAST Stitch but I haven’t put it in the subject as my doing the stitch because whilst it suits my purposes to have a non descript seam that just sinks into the background it hardly shows Bullion Knots off to there best advantage.
You will notice that the first 4 knots in the row are a slightly different colour, It was the dark, dreary day that made it hard to match the colour…The need for a colour change was a slight miss judgement, For these short seams I am useing up my scraps of thread and forgot that Bullion Knots use quite a lot of thread and that I would need a longer length.
I was doing this while visiting Sharon this afternoon and she suggested that I blog how I keep my scraps of thread which is to stick one end onto sticky tape which holds them together so that I can see what I have, at least I can when the light is good enough to see properly lol.
On the second part of this join I didPalestrina Stitch done in green thread with random lenth and oddly angle arms to replicate grass onto which I appliqued the Street sign and an image of one of my brothers cars which I printed onto T shirt transfer.
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July 5th, 2007 at 1:43 am
I am so enjoying watching these blocks come together. You are so creative and have such fun ideas. LOVE the car!
July 5th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Thanks for sharing that thread trick. The bullion stitch seam looks great, and I only thought of it with flowers, because that’s what I wanted to do with it. I may try that right now. =) Your ideas are always so helpful.
July 6th, 2007 at 3:12 am
Annie,
Thanks for sharing the tip to keep threads!
Hugs
Vero