I finished this piece yesterday afternoon while watching a 2 hour show about Moonshiners and Rumrunners on The History Channel. Facinating!
Anyway, I'll be starting on #3 in the next day or so. I'd like to stitch one of my vintage transfer designs first and I'm just itching to stitch one of Gina's peacocks! Sure wish I didn't have to sleep!
Cross Stitch Patterns inspired by nature, animals, holidays and scripture by Pamela Kellogg
Sunday, August 13, 2006
100 Details In 100 Days - Day 54
I'm running a bit late today. We just returned from a huge antique flea market in Elkhorn Wisconsin where I hit the jackpot on vintage embroidery patterns!
Todays detail is kind of a repeat. I offered this as a complimentary design on my website a few years back. I'm sure it will be new to many of my readers and it would certainly make for a lovely crazyquilt focal point!
Todays detail is kind of a repeat. I offered this as a complimentary design on my website a few years back. I'm sure it will be new to many of my readers and it would certainly make for a lovely crazyquilt focal point!
Saturday, August 12, 2006
100 Details In 100 Days - Day 53
I noticed just this week, that the sun has changed position a bit and it's very much looking like late Summer outside now. With Autumn moving closer and closer here in the US, I thought I would do another crazyquilt motif with that theme.
This little blackwork maple leaf design can be worked in the thread color of your choice. Try a varigated thread or one of those wonderful overdyeds! Try adding seed beads for some sparkle. For those of you who are like me and can't seem let go of Summer, stitch it in green! Of course, for a traditional blackwork design, work it entirely in black thread. A metallic gold thread would look stunning too!
I would use 2 strands for the outline of the leaf and then 1 strand for the blackwork pattern.
This little blackwork maple leaf design can be worked in the thread color of your choice. Try a varigated thread or one of those wonderful overdyeds! Try adding seed beads for some sparkle. For those of you who are like me and can't seem let go of Summer, stitch it in green! Of course, for a traditional blackwork design, work it entirely in black thread. A metallic gold thread would look stunning too!
I would use 2 strands for the outline of the leaf and then 1 strand for the blackwork pattern.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Halloween Block 2
I started on this little Halloween block yesterday. I really want to break away from my usual and comfortable stitches but I've found that these seem to be the best for the little 5 inch blocks. I plan to broaden my stitch variety when I get back to doing some larger blocks.
In the meantime, I'll be adding my signature cat to the black patch on the bottom right and then a spider and web to the orange patch on the bottom left. I really love doing spiderwebs! And I see room for some buttons to the right of the image where I didn't expand my image background far enough. A nice thing about crazyquilting is that you can always find a way to hide your mistakes! And somewhere, I think I have a little pumpkin button so I'll have to look for that and maybe use on this piece.
In the meantime, I'll be adding my signature cat to the black patch on the bottom right and then a spider and web to the orange patch on the bottom left. I really love doing spiderwebs! And I see room for some buttons to the right of the image where I didn't expand my image background far enough. A nice thing about crazyquilting is that you can always find a way to hide your mistakes! And somewhere, I think I have a little pumpkin button so I'll have to look for that and maybe use on this piece.
100 Details In 100 Days - Day 52
With Autumn just around the corner here in the US, I thought a pumpkin would make a nice crazyquilt motif.
This can be crayon tinted and then embroidered or just outline stitched. Try adding some red or purple beads for berries. Also, if you have graphic software, you can size this to fit your needs.
Again, I'm not great at cleaning up hand drawn patterns on the computer but I'm sure this is enough for you to work from.
Has anyone stitched one of my patterns from the 100 Days project yet? I'd love to see photos and will gladly post them here on my blog if you're interested in sharing.
This can be crayon tinted and then embroidered or just outline stitched. Try adding some red or purple beads for berries. Also, if you have graphic software, you can size this to fit your needs.
Again, I'm not great at cleaning up hand drawn patterns on the computer but I'm sure this is enough for you to work from.
Has anyone stitched one of my patterns from the 100 Days project yet? I'd love to see photos and will gladly post them here on my blog if you're interested in sharing.
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