Thursday, January 24, 2008

What's "on the hoop"?

I've updated my sidebar with my projects for 2008 - the one that's almost done and been sitting there for years is my Australian Landscape...featuring a gum tree and a million individually stitched leaves. I have done a few hundered of them! Many many more to go:

I'm planning on stitching on this while watching TV....and hopefully get it done. The background is lovely fabrics including the bottom - which is a wonderful black antique silk velvet. Too bad blogs don't have "feel-a-vision". Imagine how lovely it would be to fondle everyone's lovely fabrics?

You might notice I have a new ad network on my sidebar too....I'm going to be contributing to a wonderful site called "Divine Caroline". It's a really nice site and I hope to be writing some fun articles for them...both for this blog and for my houseblog! So, keep an eye out and I'll try to let you know when something new pops up over there.

Labels: Crazy quilt, embroidery, UFO's

Stumble It!

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Stitch Night and many flowers to come!

This is a hideous photo of this (as in fuzzy), but I've adjusted the light a bit to try to give you some idea of the colors and textures! I'm on a big tear to get this finished. I got the borders put on and now I can really "see" where I'm going with it.

The column will be filled with flowers which spill over onto the border to the left of it. I have a little spider web at the bottom of the column and of course all of the crazy quilting on the sides will be embellished. We'll see what it looks like from there to see how much more I add. I enjoyed adding some flowers to it last night at our RMCQ group casual stitch night. I have so much more to do tho!

This pattern is from the Fairy Goddess Mothers Group and is their first pattern (which I happen to like the best). Obviously still no where close to ready, but I'm still enjoying it!

Labels: Crazy quilt, embroidery, UFO's