100 details for 100 days Day 100

With this post being the last in the series I feel that some sort of finish line has been met and deserves a detail that is a little different. It feels like an end of an era!

This is a small sampler I worked on hand dyed 36 count linen fabric. It is 6 inches wide and heavily encrusted with beads. Metallic thread, linen, cotton, wool and silk thread of various weights was used throughout the piece.

Novelty threads were first couched into place. I then worked lines of feather stitch in a number of different threads. I also worked beaded feather stitch and tucked alternating barred chain in between couched threads.

Textured stitches include caston stitch , buttonhole wheel cups, buttonhole wheels, Oyster stitches, French knots and Bullion knots. For those who have problems with bullion stitches I have some tips for working bullion stitch here

There is a new blogger who has started working the details but the title of the blog is a mystery to me as it is in an Asian language I do not understand. The pictures are there though so do check them out.

Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has highlighted the self portrait she made in stumpwork.

Gail of Big Horn Mountain Creations has been stitching and has published images

I nearly missed the cherry tree outline that Katie of Katie’s New place has loaded as part of her motif a day series.

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has generously published a Christmas bell motif

Rissa of Rissas Pieces has published a design for a very ornate alphabet

Since this is the last post in the series I know that tomorrow I will feel a little lost as I scratch around wondering what to write about but it is timely to remind everyone about the “Take a Stitch Tuesdays” challenge next year. With a start date of January 2nd 2007 this challenge will be a weekly event organised to encourage people to take a stitch and explore its possibilities. Each week I am going to work a stitch and experiment with it, and blog the results. What does it look like worked in different threads? What happens when you change the size? How does it behave on a curve or can it be stacked to create patterns? What happens if you work it in a free form manner? What are the inherent design possibilities of this stitch? Anyone who wants to join in and blog their discoveries is welcome.

Exploration and interpretation of stitches and how they might be used is the aim of this challenge so you can stitch on anything you choose, anyway you choose. People have proposed a number of different formats but a sampler can be in any shape or size you like. A sampler can be in the form of crazy quilt blocks, a fabric postcard, a fabric book or samples for folder of stitches. Colour, format, how much exploration is done is up to each individual.

Commitment to this challenge is flexible. Anyone can join at any time. People can join in and stitch as their life dictates. Each week I will link to who has done what. In other words, as I have done in this series a list of links to current activity will be in the post of the week, which means readers can travel the sites to see what everyone has done. Hopefully it will be fun and if anyone wants to be reminded closer to the time drop me an email or leave a comment and I will add you to the mail out list.

I hope you have found this series interesting. It has been most enjoyable for me watching what people have done, seeing how ideas grow and most of all seeing new hands become hooked on stitching for pleasure.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 99

Things are just hopping this morning. It is not yet 7 in the morning and after yesterday’s announcement that I am coming to the States on a teaching tour I opened my email box to heaps of messages and enquiries which I am about to tackle. Thanks too for everyone who has left a comment here.

I am asking anyone who is interested to join the yahoo group Sharonstrip as then if there are two small groups close by, classes might be able to be combined and this helps to keep the costs down. At the moment there is a very flexible itinery and its your chance to put ideas forward there.

Another reason to join is that if you are from a town that does not have a large enough population of crazy quilters to support a class in your area then you will know where the closest point is that will hold a class. Since the plan is to go in 2008 it gives everyone plenty of time to organise, save, plan and travel.

Communication is going to be the key to organizing this and having all chat associated with it in one spot is best I think. On a purely selfish level it means I can answer the same question once. Allison Aller , Willa Fuller and Nora Creeach of CQMag Online are all helping out but there are some questions that are directed to me – so in order to be able to co-ordinate this please join the group and we can work from there.

With this being the second last day in this series I thought I would feature a detail that is a bit different. What you are looking at is a piece of lace which has had the negative area of the pattern picked out in French knots. The threads used are a superfine wool which is the dame thickness of a single strand of DMC cotton floss.

The spider web is the traditional symbol of good luck found on many crazy quilts. I stitched it in a metallic thread next to a cluster of flowers. Flower motifs have been made of buttonhole wheels , French knots and Bullion knots. For those who have problems with bullion stitches I have some tips for working bullion stitch here Leaves are detached chain stitches.

The email box may be full but the things are quite on the blog round up front Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has finally featured some stumpwork from her stumpwork sampler

Katie of Katie’s New place has published another motif.

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has published another teacup motif which she has generously provided free. This one too has found its way into my patterns folder

Rissa of Rissas Pieces has published another in her series of alphabets that can be used in embroidery.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in my online classes. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting both are currently being offered.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 98

After yesterdays hurried post this morning is written with a little more leisure. Today we have another cluster of buttons which has been stitched at the edge of a doily.

Two seams can be seen the first runs diagonally along the top of the photo is made of sheaf stitch. I don’t have directions to work this sheaf stitch online – it is on my to do list but you can find directions for sheaf stitch here.

Along the bottom of the detail is a row of Open cretan stitch worked in DMC pearl 5 thread. In the spaces created by the cretan stitch I worked two chain stitches topped with a tiny bead. Between them is a seed bead.

My morning read of the blogs revealed that Katie of Katie’s New place has started stitching some of the details!

Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has featured more stitch samples on her stumpwork sampler

Karen South of Karen South’s Crazy Quilting World has posted some details of her latest block

Debbie of Needle Lil More Time to Sew has featured some more details from her work.

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has published a teacup motif which she has generously provided free. This motif is a particular favourite as I am ‘collecting’ tea cups for a project.

Rissa of Rissas Pieces has published another in her series of alphabets that can be used in embroidery.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in my online classes. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting both are currently being offered.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 97

I am having severe problems with my internet connection this morning. This post has taken me two hours to prepare. As a result I have not been able to to do my usual morning whip around but lets hope the detail at least will publish.

Today the detail featured is another example of using rick rack in crazy quilting. It has been attached with zig zag chain using DMC pearl 5 thread. between the V’s of the braid I have stitched three straight stitches topped with seed beads.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in my online classes. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting both are currently being offered.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 96

We really are on the count down toward the end of the series now. This seam treatment started life as a piece hand dyed lace that was in the form of a row hearts. As you can see the hearts are upside down and have three detached chain stitches attached to them. A seed bead is in the middle of the cluster of chain stitches.

At the V of the heart is a row of larger black beads. I chose the same thread that I worked the detached chain stitches on the V of the heart, to work around the black beads in Fly Stitch tied with a detached chain stitch.

Detached chain stitches with a long tail are stitched either side of the black beads and a bead which looks like a cluster of four seed beads was stitched between the detached chain stitches.

Through the week Allison Aller worked a number of her interpretations of the details I posted. Today Allison has featured detail 95.

Lin of Purple Fan published her interpretation of the details

Barbara of Thinking Out Loud featured seam embellishments on a fan.

All week Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has featured details from her stumpwork sampler.

Gail of Big Horn Mountain Creations has featured motifs used in a crazy quilt block.

Debbie of Needle Lil More Time to Sew has also featured a number of motifs throughout the week and today featured a basket of flowers

Hideko Ishida who does wonderful delicate work and has featured her latest details on her flickr account and in her blog Wind From The East she published a series of blocks that are back from a round robbin.

Marty of Textiles in Time used a mother of pearl pin found in flea market on her latest Crazy quilt project.

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has generously published some of her designs that can be used in crazy quilting.

Throughout the week Rissa of Rissas Pieces has published alphabets that can be used in embroidered projects.

Katie of Katie’s New place has posted a copyright free motifs throughout the week.

Susan of Crazy Quilting for fun has just received a set of Carole samples templates and has been using them.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in my online classes. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting both are currently being offered.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 95

With only 5 days left in this series it is timely to remind everyone about the challenge next year. “Take a Stitch Tuesdays” will be a weekly challenge which encourages people to take a stitch and push it in various ways.

Exploration and interpretation of stitches and how they might be used is the aim of this challenge. Each week I am going to feature a stitch, experiment with it. Anyone who wants to join in can do the same, interpreting the stitch as they choose. People can stitch on anything they choose, anyway they choose and commitment is flexible. Anyone can join at any time. People can join in and stitch as their life dictates.

Each week I will link to who has done what. In other words, as I have done in this series a list of links to current activity will be in the post of the week, which means readers can travel the sites to see what everyone has done.

The start date is January 2nd 2007. Drop me an email or leave a comment if you want to go on a list of people who want a reminder about it closer to the time.

As you can see there are two seams featured today. Both seams are made up of of arrangements of detached chain stitches and straight stitch.

One grouping worked in thread the same weight as DMC pearl 8 is along side lace. The other worked in thread the same weight as DMC pearl 5 is worked along side a fine cord which has been couched down.

Both seam treatments are quick simple and effective.

My morning blog/flickr account hop has revealed that Hideko Ishida who does wonderful delicate work and has featured her latest details on her flickr account and in her blog Wind From The East she has published a series of blocks that are back from a round robbin.

Allison Aller Has worked her interpretation of the detail I posted yesterday

Lin of Purple Fan has featured her interpretation of the detail from day 89.

Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has featured more stitches from her stumpwork sampler.

Gail of Big Horn Mountain Creations has featured a cherry tree motif used in a crazy quilt block.

Debbie of Needle Lil More Time to Sew has featured a butterfly motif worked on a block

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has featured another fractal design that can be printed on fabric and used in crazy quilting.

Rissa of Rissas Pieces has published another alphabet that can be usedin embroidered projects.

Katie of Katie’s New place has posted a copyright free motif and while you are on her blog you might like to check out her development of the paisley challenge.

Susan of Crazy Quilting for fun has just received a set of Carole samples templates. If you want to read about what she thinks of them pop over to her blog and see how she has been using them.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in my online classes. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting both are currently being offered.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 94

The detail for today features a row of tied Herringbone was worked in DMC pearl 5 thread. At the base of this I stitched some sequins.

At the top of this row is a line of Oyster stitch worked in rayon ribbon floss, which has been topped with a small pearl bead

The other seam embellishment starts with a widely spaced buttonhole stitch. Into the corner of the L is three detached chain stitches worked in DMC pearl 5. Using a finer thread I tucked another detached chain stitch on the outside corner of the L at a 45 degree angle.

At the top of the buttonhole stitches in a finer thread I also worked some detached chain stitches which were finished off with a tiny bead. In a finer thread still, I added two straight stitches.

The round up for this morning includeds links to …

Allison Aller has published a wonderful close up of the seam she has worked in response to yesterdays detail.

Lin of Purple Fan has also been stitching with another seam done on her crazy quilt project

Connie of The Scoop, Score and Deal has also worked a seam from day 90

Debbie of Needle Lil More Time to Sew has featured some silk ribbon embroidery on a heart.

Annie has featured needlelace samples she worked for her stumpwork sampler.

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has featured another design for a tree that can be used in crazy quilting.

Katie has published a line drawing of a landscape which can be used as a fabric postcard.

Rissa has published another font suitable for use in embroidery.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in my online classes. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting both are currently being offered.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 93

With one week to go in this series featuring 100 details in 100 days the detail for today features a cluster of buttons which below them have a row of alternating barred chain worked in DMC pearl 3. A pearl bead has been stitched at the end of the barred chain arms.

Also radiating from the button cluster is a row of Herringbone was worked in DMC pearl 5 thread which I then laced using the same lacing technique that is used in Twisted lattice band. In this case I used a fine rayon knitting ribbon. Pearl beads have also been stitched to the row.

Above the buttons is some lace. The edge of this has been embellished with straight stitch topped with small white seed beads.

Todays round up of those who are currently participating in this series in some way or other includes Marty of Textiles in Time who has used the most delicious mother of pearl pin found in flea market on her latest Cray quilt project.

Debbie of Needle Lil More Time to Sew has also featured a heart that is embellished with vintage buttons and beads.

Barbara of Thinking Out Loud has featured seam embellishments on a fan.

Allison Aller has published an image of her whole block in order to point out the key elements of composition in her block.

Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has featured more stitches from her stumpwork sampler.

Katie of Katie’s New place has published two copyright free designs that can be adapted for embroidery.

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has published a design for a weeping willow which can be embroidered on a a crazy quilted project.

Rissa of Rissas Pieces has featured another alphabet that can be used in embroidery.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in my online classes. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting both are currently being offered.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 92

I want to thank everyone for leaving comments to say how much they are enjoying the series. I appreciate the feedback as I know it takes effort to write something. If you do leave a comment it won’t appear immediately as I moderate all comments to avoid spam.

Today, I am featuring another detail on a crazy quilt block which contains a number of seam embellishments in the one area. The first seam runs diagonally across the image on the left is created with two rows of Chevron stitch worked back to back in DMC pearl 5 thread.

The seam is then further embellished with groups of two detached chain stitches worked side by side tucked into the V of the chevron. A bugle bead and a seed bead is stitched between them.

Towards the middle of the detail is Open cretan stitch worked in a silk thread which is the same weight as DMC pearl 5. Using the same thread I tucked detached chain stitches in between the arms of the cretan stitch and added a little black seed bead at the base.

The top diagonal seam embellishment starts with buttonhole stitch. On one side I added three straight stitches with a seed bead stitched at the base. From the top I hung a Japanese Ribbon stitch. I don’t have directions to work this stitch online. It is on my to do list but you can find directions for Ribbon Stitch here.

The final thin row is made up of Palestrina Stitch above some lace which has been embellished with detached chain stitches and beads.

This morning Allison Aller observes that spacing is important when working double rows of stitches.

Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has featured examples of more stitches she used on her stumpwork sampler.

Gail of Big Horn Mountain Creations has focused on how she stitched the letter D on a crazy quilt block.

Rissa of Rissas Pieces has featured another ornamental alphabet which can be used in embroidery.

Debbie of Needle Lil More Time to Sew has featured a tree motif she has stitched on a crazy quilt block

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has published another of free designs and conquered cast on stitch on her latest block.

Katie of Katie’s New place has published a copyright free goldfish stencil.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in my online classes. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting both are currently being offered.

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.

 

100 details for 100 days Day 91

Todays detail features an embellishment that runs along the side a piece of lace. It is quite simple as it consists of two rows of tied Herringbone stitch worked in a hand dyed cotton thread the same weight as DMC pearl 8. In the middle of the pattern formed the embellishment is further enhanced with a series of beads down the middle.

The hand dyed lace itself was embroidered with a scattering of detached chain stitches picking out the pattern found in the lace. A seed bead is added to the floral motif in the lace to finish it off.

We are really on the count down to the end of this series now. I am still delighted that people have not tired of the series yet and are still stitching. When it started I had no idea people would stitch along or that they would carry on stitching or in some cases generously providing free patterns to the end! I am equally delighted to be planing the next challenge I announced yesterday.

Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has started to feature the stitches used on her stumpwork sampler.

Allison Aller has worked her interpretations of all four seam treatments that I featured yesterday.

Gail of Big Horn Mountain Creations is featuring details of her latest crazy quilt block.

Debbie of Needle Lil More Time to Sew has featured a butterfly motif worked above a seam treatment.

Pam Kellogg of Kitty & Me Designs has generously published another free design for a vine

Rissa has featured another decorative font that is suitable for embroidery.

If you have found this series interesting you may be also interested in 2 online classes I am offering which have a heavy emphasis on stitching and design. Develop a Personal Library of Stitches and Encrusted Crazy Quilting

If you are just swinging by, a search engine has landed you here, or you want to print out this series 100 details for 100 days they are listed under that category in this blog.