TAST 2012 - Week 3–Feather Stitch

This week on Pintangle it’s feather stitch.

I worked this on aida and calico that I space dyed.

I used wool, space dyed cotton and viscose, perlé and metallic threads.

TAST 2012 - Week 2–Buttonhole Stitch

Week 2 of TAST 2012 on http://www.pintangle.com

This is worked on dyed hessian fabric.

I tried buttonhole wheel, barred buttonhole wheel, long and short buttonhole, buttonhole stitch shading, up and down buttonhole and saw tooth buttonhole – lots of buttonholes but not many holes!

TAST 2012 Week 1–Fly Stitch

This is the first challenge for Take a Stitch Tuesday on Sharon Boggon’s Pintangle blog at http://www.pintangle.com

I worked the stitches on space dyed cotton towelling with lots of different threads and used beads in some of the samples.

Fly stitch is an open detached chain stitch with lots of possible variations and can be like a “V” or a “Y” depending on the length of the anchoring stitch…

Crazy Quilts

I love crazy quilts and am hoping to join the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2012 – here’s one I did earlier……

Happy Valentines!

An embellished "Crazy Heart" from an idea by Linda Kemshall.

Messing around with the embellisher again!

I've been playing with the embellisher again - courtesy of Dale's Hot Needles Cool Stitches - just laying down the merino tops, rolling, spritzing and ironing - then a quick blast with the embellisher - so easy!

SMASHEES

Some info about Shelagh Folgate's group - should be really good!

Hi
I thought that you might like to know about a NEW TEXTILE COURSE that starts 1st DECEMBER 2010 & runs until 31 July 2011

CALLED THE SMASHEES (means smashing people) there will be 8 COMPLETE WORKSHOPS, one a month

This has been born out of THE CREATIVE CHALLENGERS GROUP whic has been running for nearly 2 years.

The workshops will be posted on a closed BLOG & will include step by step written & pictorial instructions & patterns
They will include: Machine stitching - machine embroidery stitches, machine needle felting, using a serger (overlocker)
Hand stitchery - traditional & innovative
Creating backgrounds - mixed media & fabrics
Working with various tools including heat tools (iron, soldering iron & heat gun)
Discovering products.

For more information please visit http://shelaghfolgate.blogspot.com

To join: http://shelaghfolgate.bigcartel.com
THE SMASHEES - AN EIGHT MONTH TEXTILE COURSE

Regards
Shelagh
http://shelaghfolgate.blogspot.com
http://shelaghfolgate.bigcartel.com