Category: stitching

A Stitchery

Continued from Rags and scraps I stitched all nine patches down to a eco-printed vintage linen square. The background is interesting, but not interesting enough that I hesitate to cover it up. Then I...

Back to basics – nine patches

I just needed to make some simple ninepatches using one inch squares. Something very basic. It is a pleasure to mix and match colors and arrange scraps in a pleasing order. I had to...

Concertina assembled

After a laborious session at the sewing machine, the concertina is assembled (in halves) and ready for dyeing. All in all, it went smoothly with less mistakes than I usually make, I think. I...

One square at a time

This seems like a monumental effort but I am embarking on it. I am not a quilter, but I do stitch and what is quilting, but stitching through multiple layers? I decided to start...

Rags and scraps

I have resurrected this old project started around Valentine’s Day. The concept was heart motifs stitched to rough-cut squares of a eco-printed tea towel. Using mostly scraps and a semi-transparent layer on top of...

Golden houses backgrounds

I had a lot of fun applying a layer of stitching embellishments to each of the 12 golden houses. Then I chose some tentative backgrounds to stitch them to, eventually planning for a patchwork...

Golden houses

Some of the details of the work in progress, stitching extra layers onto these houses: