Showing posts with label doodling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doodling. Show all posts

Thursday, January 30, 2014

emerald star almost done

Almost finished! I figure a couple more hours of stitching today and I'll have this cross stitched quilt block completed.  I'm not sure if I have enough of one of the colors to finish it, though. *grr* I really don't want to wander out in the new snow to get it. Might just wait until I go to pick up the girl from school and swing through and grab it then. The benefit of waiting also means that I won't be tempted to pick up anything else because I have got to finish up a few things before I go starting anything else. 



Last year I hand dyed a few hanks of six strand cotton embroidery thread with Easter egg tablets. Really loved the results, but I didn't have a project in mind for them at the time. So I tucked them away, and in sorting out the sewing room after my boy went back to school, I found them and started playing around with a few embroidered petals if for nothing else but to stitch. 




Thursday, January 23, 2014

quilt block interpretation & doodlins

I had so much fun doing the granny square piece that I decided to take it another step further and see what I could do with quilt blocks. After charting several different ideas, this is the one I decided to start with, a cross stitched spin on a star block. I'm doing my model in emeralds, but this could be changed up to just about any colorway. (And I've played with a few of them!)


Yesterday's stitching progress...


And a bit of stay-up-late doodling....


I tried to pull this one into PatternMaker, but the lines are too close together. It becomes one muddy mess on the digital graph paper. BUT...it has given me some other ideas.

Blizzard warning here last night, and there is still a windchill warning today. No where to be until 11pm tonight for my overnight shift, so I think today is going to be all about me and embroidery!