CQ Block 1 Feather and Blanket Stitch

On the left is a feather stitch with green, straight stitches and beads. The butterflies are silk ribbon with pistol stitches for the antenna and 12 bullion wraps for the body.

To the right is a vine with  the fly stitch and beads. Silk ribbon bees hum over the vine.

Here is another simple version of the feather stitch with silk ribbon flowers and beads.

On the far right the seam is blanket stitch with lazy daisy and a bead in the center. The purple block has foxgloves and hollyhocks made with the blanket  stitch. A silk ribbon snail is in the left corner with lots of silk ribbon lady bugs. The butterfly at the top is also silk ribbon with beads. I have also added fly stitch at the bottom for the grass.

Note: Some CQ books will have either Blanket Stitch or also Buttonhole stitch. Judith Baker Montano calls it a Buttonhole stitch and Joan Waldman  has it as blanket (buttonhole) stitch

Teapot Embroidery and Tatted Hearts

The teapot embroidery is a block of the month from DMC. The top tatted hearts are patterns from Patti Duff.  On the bottom the pink heart is a pattern from Mark Myers and the red/purple from Victats. All the hearts are tatted with Lizbeth size 40. Hens and Chicks make a nice doily for the teapot and it was tatted with DMC size 10.  Karey Solomon needed blocks to make a lap quilt for a fellow tatter Kathy who had a stroke. The teapot block is my donation. 

January CQ Challenge

The first week in the TAST Challenge is the Fly Stitch and looks like a Y.

The tan material has  a long vine made with Y stitches, on the sides the Y stitches are decorated with beads. The white material has a Y stitch along with an outline, lazy daisy and ermine stitches. On the tips there are 3 small y stitches. 

Naked Block



New Year

May Happiness, Health and all your projects go with you through the New 2012 Year!!

Crazy Quilt Challenge

Beginning on January The Crazy Quilt Journal Project will begin. For more information you can click on the sidebar button. Every month we are to complete a block and at the end of the year it will be put together. To help with our seam treatment, Sharon B's at Pintangle will have instructions on "Take a stitch on Tuesday". Her button "Tast" is on the side bar.  I have decided to embroider flowers that was a block of the month from Sentimental Stitches. Still need to finish 6 more blocks. The blocks will be sashed with the lady bug material. Yesterday I purchased leaf material and bird material. My goal is to have the leaf material over hang on the top, with possible leaves cut out and the birds appliqued on.
My first Block....



Flag Block

The International Crazy Quilting Group are putting together flag blocks from countries around the world. I have chosen the United States and there are over 22 more flag blocks. It will be put together as one big quilt and sent to our  CQ Sister, Hideko. Hideko will enter them in Japan Quilt Shows and will be sold. The funds will help the victims of the Sendai Earthquake. I have lots of crazy quilt stitches, silk ribbon and a tatted eagle. Pattern from Nancy Tracy.

Merry Christmas