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    Embellishing Straight Stitches

    Today we’re continuing our foundation seam treatment series, discussing how straight stitches can be used for embellishing your crazy quilts. I hope you will see the endless possibilities when using straight stitches – you can do a lot! As I did previously with the herringbone stitch, I will be sharing different examples of seam treatments…

  • Embellished Stitching

    Today, we’re featuring embellished stitching as a variation of the basic herringbone stitch that we had written about last month The herringbone pattern offers many opportunities for embellished stitching. The base fabric for this stitch is polyester in a lavender shade. The bottom is pale peach silk. Once again I always start my seam treatments…

  • Herringbone Stitch

    This month I am sharing another of my favourite stitches, the herringbone stitch. This is the first stitch I learned when I started crazy quilting and still by far my favourite! If you are new to my seam treatment series and want to learn more, check out categories – crazy quilting – seam treatments. While…

  • Ric Rac Trim

    When I sent threads to my stitch group earlier in the year I included some bits of ric rac trim to see how they would use this in needlepoint (and specifically the hearts).  It took me quite some time to source this particularly ric rac.  When I was in San Bernardino a number of years…

  • Grand Finale

    If you have been following this blog for some time, you may have seen me talk about various crazy quilt techniques to add a bit of “pop” to your project. This is the final post in my crazy quilting class series where I use all of the techniques we have covered – the grand finale!…

  • Embellishing Crazy Quilting

    Prior to Christmas, I started a series on how to construct a crazy quilt block and today, I am going to talk about embellishing crazy quilting.  I specifically opted for a neutral class sample in grey, silver and white.  I did this as I wanted the focus of the class to be on stitching and…