Friday, March 20, 2015

Basic Quilting Course........

Kathy Shaw has just posted details of a new session of her Basic Crazy Quliting course. The registration is open until March 22nd.

For more details go to this link.....here .

Take care:)

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Using beads in Crazy Quilting.....

Here is a video using beads in Crazy Quilting. The camera work is a bit annoying but I think you'll get the idea:) Nancy has more videos on YouTube if you're interested....link.

StitchMap Class Done!!!!

Last summer I started a Traditional Redwork class with a Yahoo group called StitchMap. For various and sundry reason I couldn't finish it and had to stop at lesson 3.

I joined a new session of the class and I'm proud to say I stuck to it and finished all six lessons. Most of the stitches covered are ones that everyone knows but it was really great to sit down and learn to do them correctly.

At the end we took each of the small embroideries we did and made sewing weights and a bag to put them in. The weights are to hold down your pattern when you are cutting it out. I'll be honest I'll probably never use them but what the heck.

Here are my weights and the bag I made.



Yes there is blue and green...these colours became popular in "redwork" embroidery in later years as the dyes they used for the thread became colourfast.

The bag even has a lining!!!!!


Before I took this class I did the Color Theory class on StitchMap as well. It was quite interesting. Here are a few of my samples for my workbook.




I think I'm done with classes for awhile....I'm pooped.....LOL

Take care:)