Fish Under The Sea Block - Complete!

I completed this project yesterday afternoon and I must say, I absolutely love it and want to do another Fish Under The Sea quilt now!



What a change of pace from traditional crazyquilting! I use some broken jewelry that I got in a bag of misc. pieces at a flea market last Summer. Lot's of sequins, real seashells, pretty little fish charms, dyed freshwater pearls, semi-precious stone chips and of course, some beads.

And speaking of handbags, that's probably what I'll do with this piece.

I Have A Confession To Make.....

I'm a handbag junkie! You know how many women just love shoes? Well, I love shoes too, I just don't like them on my feet! No, my thing is cute little handbags!

I found a wonderful shop over at Etsy. Louise of Scarf It Up makes beautiful knitted handbags with those gorgeous fancy yarns that we see in craft stores now.

I've been drooling all over her shop for months now! I finally sent Louise a message telling her how much I loved her bags but couldn't decide on which one I wanted. She offered to do a custom bag for me! I wanted something for Winter that would go with my black coat so I decided on a black bag with pink foo-foos!

Isn't this gorgeous?!!! Because it's handmade, I wanted to share it here.



I'll be needing another one very soon!

100 Details In 100 Days - Day 66

Fractal 5
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

Today's detail is another fractal design that you can print on inkjet fabric sheets and work into your quilts.

I hope someone can use these. I've tried to think of all sorts of different things that can be used in or on crazyquilts. I've always loved fractals. Like crazyquilts, they're just so interesting to look at! This one reminds me of bubblegum.

Fish Under The Sea - Continued

Fish Under The Sea
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

Well this block has been challenging. When I started on it, I had no idea where I was going to with it. All I knew was that I had that beautiful pink Mother Of Pearl fish and I wanted to use it on this piece.

I did not think this out at all. I started by adding the fancy yarns (which by the way, are a pain to work with) and then I did the tatted do-dads to the left. Yes, they were supposed to be the cast-on stitch but despite Sharon's help and instructions, all I ended up with was a great big fat kanoodle! So I resorted again to my tatting needle which worked out well because I remembered that if you do just a single stitch, instead of the double stitch, you get those wonderful twisted strands. So I'm going to add a few more of those.

My husband was kind enough to drill holes in some of my little seashells for me so I added them and the dyed pearls.

I'm not done with this yet. I still have more little fishy charms to add and some other beads and sequins. Believe it or not, my husband doesn't care for crazyquilting too much but he really likes this piece. I guess it's going in the right direction!

100 Details In 100 Days - Day 65

Fractal 2
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

Another of my Fractal designs for printing your own fabric sheets. I love Fractals as they're so interesting to look at not mention colorful!