Blogs
This is a spot to say a word of welcome to new visitors to my blog.
I’ve found Sharon b’s Take a Stitch Tuesdays challenge for 2007 is a fun way to add to my knowledge and hand embroidery skills. Many stitchers are involved across a wide area of interests–crazy quilts, smalls and other fiber art projects. It is always a perfect time to jump in and see what it is like. Sharon has made it so flexible that the challenge stitching can easily fit your schedule or be done in the course of your normal stitching.
I wanted to highlight a few blogs that would give you a flavor of what happens. Here are four stitchers involved with crazy quilting who participate in the TaST challenge.
Ati of Ati on the crazy road did two wonderful octagons with this week’s stitch, the half chevron, on a crazy quilt block. She also used it in her seam treatment.
Annie of Annies Crazy World took the herringbone stitch (week 1) and used it with the reverse Palestrina stitch (Palestrina week 16) . She has a nice step by step on this, too. Then she also combined the herringbone stitch with the up and down buttonhole stitch (week 11). Both these new combinations made great seam treatments.
Maureen of CrazyQstitcher did a sampler using the half chevron. I loved her square, layers and borders. And I should have known I wouldn’t be the only one thinking about how to alternate these half chevron stitches.
And Susan of Crazyquiltsusan did sampler, too. I especially loved the square on the lower left and the experiments with multicolored layers.
When you visit, please do look around on their blogs. Each one has many other interesting works that I’ve enjoyed. There are so many great stitchers blogging. I’m only able to give you a tiny sample once a week. There is a good blog roll on Sharon b’s blog to introduce you to the wider on-line stitch world. You may wish to take time to visit and explore other areas of her work at her website. From the stitch dictionary to her own stitching projects, there is a lot to see and read.
Half-way point
While these samples with 100/3 silk seem rather mundane to be marking off the half-way point for Sharon b’s TSTC; nevertheless the point did arrive! And I’m happy about that. When I stop and think about it, it is those mundane daily stitch practices that have become the most important of TSTC for me. Thank you, Sharon, for being an expert guide and leader in going through these stitches. And thank you for being a good example to me in so many things.
Oops, I guess this was a wasted effort!
The half-way point!
And looking forward to the start of the second half!
