Quilt Years ago I started a mile-a-minute quilt, but was not too keen on the results. I decided to do something with it after all, if only for practice, so last week I cut blocks from the pieced fabric pieces. You are supposed to cut them on an ang
ITH duckie I loved those ducks and had a go at one myself. Used some remnants and am quite pleased with it.
One set of squares used. I had these tests stitched on different sized squares - and loads of others as well. Some squares were 4 1/4 "others 9" and some on different coloured backgrounds of varying sizes. So I had to add borders to get them all
The other 3 dresses. I noticed I have to iron the hem of the one on the left.
Five baby dresses. I got three bolts of fabric and started to make dresses for charity. I used one and the same pattern but varied it for all of them. They close with 5 buttons on the back and I am not particularly keen on making buttonholes. So I digi
Today I watched 40 coffins being unloaded in Eindhoven Airport from an Royal Australian Air Force plane and a R Netherlands A F one. The first remains of victims of the shot-down Malaysian aircraft. The simple but respectful ceremony was an antidote to th
Split flower design. I can't resist a challenge when I see one. I thought a split flower would not work, so I had a go at proving myself wrong. This one looks not bad at all, I think. I changed the colour of the bars, thought that would loo
Guest towel with cross stitch border. After digitising a design to illustrate what I was trying to say, I just had to stitch one out. I think I might delete the curls and make a number of leaves to get a nice freestanding (as opposed to part of a b
Another bamboo design, only one more to go.
Bag - recycled trouser legs. Nine days ago my husband tripped and fell. He had a 7" tear in his trousers and a nasty wound beneath the knee. The wound is healing after much TLC and sterilised dressings, the trousers were irreparable and I cut off
Bamboo designs, clipart by Clipartoon. I have been digitising them as they were released, 7 so far. The pictures are #6 and #7. Initially I thought they would be too much alike to be interesting, but they grew on me and would be nice as a border o
Embird redwork question. I got a PM with this question from someone who wants to remain unknown. quote When I do lineart, I use Embird's single stitch for the outlines, with a backward path, so the design stitches twice. Carolyn K
Here's the design I made from the latest Clipartoon freebie stitched out. I was pleasantly surprised how well it looks. And how fast it stitches with just these 4 colours. update I decided to digitise them one by one as soon as they were releas
Clipartoon started a new series of freebies, called Bamboo. They look nice at first sight and I digitised the first today. But now I find them rather boring. The flowers are all the same, the leaves aren't. It stitches out nicely enough, but I would not
The last one. I love how it stitched out and this morning bought fabric to make a quilt from my stitch-outs, from the begonias and from the cornflowers and poppies. I'll show you when they are finished. I used the same three shades of green for al