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I’m Still Stitching!
I haven’t abandoned either stitching or the blog, but I’ve been working on secret things, so there’s really nothing I can show right now!
But I’ll be back soon. In the meantime, here’s a picture of a rose that bloomed in my garden last week – with 5 of its friends following after, but they didn’t make the photo op.
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CQJP2019: End of March, Seam 57
A fuzzy picture, but a picture, nevertheless.
Another doodling seam, adding a bit of this and a bit of that until I called it finished.
Swags are Sassa Lynne variegated, and the other thread, obviously also variegated, was free from a shop in Jonesborough on our recent shop hop. The packaging is gone, there’s no label on the thread spool, and I apparently didn’t record it when I posted about that shop, so I can’t tell you what it is.
CQJP2019: April Update
Seams 59 and 60 ready for further embellishment. The light thread doesn’t show up well, but with embellishing, it will, and that’s also bad lighting.
Motif 9 is also ready for further enhancement.
It sort of looks like some kind of creatures swanning across the sand. Penguins, maybe. Maybe I should add French knots for eyes?
CQJP2019: Finishing March
Not quite, but almost! Here’s the space I had to work within:
Here’s what I’ve done with it, Motif 8 is probably finished, and Seam 57 isn’t.
I thought having two thicknesses of Valdani thread, an 8 and a 12, would enhance the doodled seam. I don’t think it did, but my rule is if it’s in, it stays, and this is in. In the overall finished project, it won’t matter. I liked the general idea, though, and will work on it again. My inspiration was a cretan feather from the top of page 45 in Treasury of Crazy Quilt Stitches by Carole Samples.
Seam 57 is one of my favorite shapes, in one of my favorite stitches, chain stitch. I made the arcs bigger, using a Sharon Boggon Pintangle template. Right now, I have no idea what’s going with it. I haven’t doodled it in my head yet.
CQJP2019: April Block
Nothing but a strip of lace on it yet, but here it is!
January 2019 CQJP Finished
I don’t know if I like the intense bead trail, but it’s in and it’s staying, because that’s my rule. One more seam on March, and then I can start April! I need to make more bare blocks, though.
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Kathy Shaw has started a Patreon Page. She has three levels of support, $5, $10 and $15 per month, and each will have a variety of ideas and designs. Of course, $15 has everything that the other two have, plus more.
If you’ve never supported an artist through Patreon, you might not understand how it works. You are literally sponsoring an artist and their work, allowing them to actually *do* the art. In return, they give you a variety of things, depending on the type of art and what they’ve promised supporters.
If you are interested in monthly support of an artist, and in receiving exclusive ideas and designs, then click on the button above to see what Kathy’s levels are about, and how you can support her new plans and ideas.
It is Kathy who started the Crazy Quilting Journal Page project (CQJP) in 2012.
CQJP2019: March Progress
Thanks to a couple of trips in the car, this block is moving along pretty fast.
Lace Motif 6 and Seam 55, random:
Seam 56, random feather stitching and embellishment:
Motif 7: Over a print on silk
Seam 57 – one bullion stitch on the dragonfly body! The seam itself is very similar to one Jo did in her SEAMS like fun photographic booklet.
And some inspiration from the garden in these Ch-Ching yellow roses with the sweetest scent imaginable. 6 blooming at once (one is behind the wide open one), and 3 more buds! I’m excited to see so many.
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