CRAZY QUILTING

I got influenced to insane quilting once again, and I completed the last set of blocks in this round-robin. This is the Anything Goes Block where I included the Bullion bumblebee, and a button Path with bullion flower, pearls, shell buttons, and different shapes and sizes of crystal and clear beads. The buttonhole block has … Read more

This is the Chain stitch block: This block was quite complete, and I wanted to leave enough space for Pam to do something, so I described the goldfish with 2 hairs of metal DMC thread, straight sewed around each scale, and included French knot eyes in the center block, then included a little whimsy with … Read more

I remain in an insane quilt round robin and lastly completed dealing with Leslie’s blocks. These were beautiful blocks to decorate, and I absolutely unwinded and delighted in the procedure this time. On the chain stitch block, I wove ribbon through a base row, embroidered 2 wavy chains and put woven spider wheels in between, … Read more

Joyce’s blocks got here in the mail today, and I began dealing with them right away. Here is an image of her Blanket Block: This block had really a couple of colors in it, so I got the hex color of the blue area I wished to embroider, then utilized the green that is a … Read more

Last Thursday was the Ogden Art Group conference, and we made Sparkly Wheel buttons. It was a pattern in Interweave’s Beadwork July 2010 publication, and we had a lot of enjoyable choosing colors. The instructions were simple to follow– even for us beginner beaders– and the outcomes were pleasing. This is the bead I made: … Read more