I have been having trouble with getting myself to sit down and stitch on the samplers for Sharon Boggon's Take a Stitch Tuesday. I have come to the conclusion that I am just not a sampler kinda gal, so I made some crazy quilt blocks out of the scraps from my queen bed quilt to use for my stitches. I'm not sure how I will use them in my bedroom but it sure was nice to get back to embroidering a crazy quilt block!
Here's a 10.5" block:
and here's a 5.5" block:
and a 3" block:
I sat down yesterday (finally) and played with the Barred Chain stitch and the Alternating Barred Chain stitch and here is the result on the 3" block:
This picture is a scan, whereas the others are photographs, but I think you can see it pretty well.
I really like the Barred Chain Stitch but I think the Alternating Barred Chain stitch is going to take some work to move into my bag of tricks. On the last seam I did on this little block (the shortest one up on the upper left corner of the center piece) I used the Alternating Barred Chain stitch and made the regular chain stitches much shorter than the Barred Chain stitch and I really like how that came out. I'll be playing some more with that idea in the future.
Regular posting shall resume. Or at least as regular as I ever post! LOL!!
3 comments:
I prefer working the stitches on a block too. It's an interesting stitch. Nice job with yours.
I didn't have time for my TAST this week, so I am glad to be able to study yours.
Good work!
This will never be one of my favorite stitches, but I like what you did with it. I'm not a sampler person, either. I did a curved sun segment on one of the round robins, and it came out okay, too.
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