Category Archives: Embroidery
Buzy Day September 2014
Let’s play!
This last week I have been playing making Luscious Little Layerings! I’m no art quilter! It’s too messy for me and I’m not responsible enough, especially when it comes to burning things, my concentration span is to short and I may just burn the house down! Every second year on this side of the world […]
Duck!
The last 3 weeks my hand project for traveling and lounging around, has been a Sri Lankan, appliqué inspired, Duck pillow cover! Looking around the net I couldn’t find any history regarding the technique or method. I found a lot of pictures of made articles! Well this is what I know! It’s an appliqué technique […]
Buzy Day in March 2014
Rosettes
In last week’s post I mentioned that this time of the year all the quilting guilds I belong to give you challenges or tacks! Well this week’s post is no different! For this quilt guild I have to make rosettes for the Royal Show winners, in the quilting section, this is normally held towards the […]
Buzy Day February 2014
Mini Friendship Braid
I used paper piecing or flip-and-sew method of sewing to sew the friendship braid strips together. The following items are what I use when I paper piece. Requirements 1 sheet of Foundation Paper or A4, 90/95gsm, tracing paper, a sewing machine in good working condition, a single hole throat/stitch plate is also helpful (optional) Mettler […]
Mini me!
Last week I showed you my finished friendship braid quilt! I then decided I need a “mini me”! So o made a miniature friendship braid quilt! Today I will just show you the pictures! Next week I will share the pattern with you, I’m still fine tuning it and didn’t have time to finish it […]
All done!
I finished quilting and binding my friendship braid quilt that I started in this post! After piecing the braid, appliquéing the flowers and embroidering the flowers and the butterflies, I sewed all of it together to form the top of the quilt! This is, to me, the easy part, now comes the sandwiching of the […]
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