Button Block 10

It's hard to believe I'm on #10 now! Anyway, I started on this yesterday:



I plan to have my chores done by 10:30 this morning and then I can stitch on it.

Has anyone else been watching the John Adams miniseries on HBO? If you like historical movies, this one is so good! Episode 3 is on at 10:30 my time so I'll be parking myself in front of my TV.

Debbie asked me if I was using my Waste Canvas technique for my seams on these blocks. Absolutely! I love the perfection of my stitches when I use my borders with Waste Canvas. I've never been good at eyeballing my stitches. The only exception is when I do vines and then those are freehanded.

If anyone is interested in learning my Waste Canvas technique, you can find my Elegant Crazy Quilt Seam Treatments book here.

Happy Easter!

Hi everyone! I hope you're all having a lovely Easter Sunday.

I finished up on the black and silver block yesterday:



Have a wonderful holiday everyone!

What Season Is It?

Could someone please tell me why Winter has to steal time from the good seasons? The snow here was just about gone. I was actually able to get to my bird feeders out back. I had daffodils peeking up from the ground. And then yesterday, we got dumped on again! I'll spare you my complaining but I have so had my fill of snow!

To keep myself from climbing the walls, I pieced a ton of blocks on my treadle machine and then I stitched. This block is complete:



I'll start on this one shortly:



I have some pretty Victorian black glass buttons that I think will work on here nicely. I'll be stitching the seams in shades of purple.

For now, I'm off to cook some eggs. By the way, what is Easter doing in March?

Find The Bunny Button

I finished up on this one yesterday:



Can you find the little ceramic bunny button? I guess this one looked kind of Springy to me!

We've had a some cloudy days here lately so a bright yellow block was next on my list:



This will be finished soon but I haven't decided on my next block yet.

There are some new photos over at the Flickr group that I set up for stitcher's who are working with my Elegant Crazy Quilt Seam Treatments E-Book. Stop by an take a peek.

More Button Blocks

After several hours of treadling yesterday, I started stitching on this block:



The only reason I stopped sewing is because I ran out of muslin for the foundation piecing!

I have to tell you too, if you're looking for a sewing machine that doesn't have a cow every time you want to sew 2 pieces of velvet together, an old treadle machine is the way to go! That machine just breezes right through it!

With my electric machine, I have to add some iron-on interfacing to the back of the velvet and I have to use my Walking Foot. I tried it on my treadle without interfacing and I just used the all purpose foot and it was amazing! A walk through the park! I swear, this machine would sew 2 pieces of plywood together without any fuss!

Anyway, I'll be stitching the rest of the day so I do expect to finish this one up later.