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It’s even easier in fabric, because you can bend and twist the strips to put them together. I sewed the ribbon handle on with a snowflake stitch on my machine.
Ha! What a cute idea! No fitting tiny fabric squares together. Whod've thunk it?
First of all, I'm thrilled to know spinners because years ago someone who shared my unwavering love for my pets gave me a book about knitting with dog hair - because SHE had a dog and thought I would just spin up some yarn and make her a commemorative scarf or something. Not happening, but since I got my cat I have saved her brushings (roving?) and want to know how possible it really is to have a bit of her warmth forever.
What I'm sewing is the one and only quilt I've ever put together entirely by hand. I was clearing out my stash (as if, really) and pulling out colors not in my favored cool palette and I couldn't believe I had so many of them. I tossed them aside and when I finished and turned and saw the pile of colors I knew I had to use them all together for something.
I have a damaged Grandmother's Flower Garden that my great grandmother made and my grandmother gave me for my wedding gift. I intend to have it repaired (not my fault, a flood from the apartment above) and I'm making a far more modern version, a Not Your Grandmother's Flower Garden, if you will. I went old school and cut out freezer paper hexagons by hand. I miscounted and have piles I didn't use, but I have since figured out how to make them the binding. I've worked on this on and off in between other things and I am sewing on the next to last row on what turned out to be a nice twin sized quilt, about 55 x 87. It's taken years.
That is very cool, and the craftsmanship looks perfect. It reminded me of the log cabin (I think it’s called that) machine quilt I made long ago. Where you stitch strips of rectangles, beginning with a square.
That is very cool, and the craftsmanship looks perfect. It reminded me of the log cabin (I think it’s called that) machine quilt I made long ago. Where you stitch strips of rectangles, beginning with a square.
The log cabin is my favorite quilt pattern. The geometry and possibility of it are what made me a quilter. My favorite log cabins are by Emiko Toda Loeb. I got to see an exhibit of her work once and then take a class with her, teaching her reversible log cabin technique.
Artists like that are why I’m a better “appreciator” of the work of other’s than I am one myself.
It’s a shame we only have one life. The older I get, the more I want a few more lifetimes to try to be an artist, a weaver, an author, among several other things...
I love counted cross stitch. I can make the easy ones, and the harder ones (300 x 300 rows/columns size). I especially like colors like red, blue, green, but not really autumn colors as the main colors.. Looks kinda depressing.
But right now I'm doing a snow scene with blues mostly and whites and beiges, looks pretty!
I'm pretty much addicted to it, so that when I go home, I spend hours doing it and I cant stop.. when its time to go to sleep, I have to force myself to stop for the night, because I just want to do another row!
I love cross stitch, too. I did so many things I ran out of people to give things to, and I haven't done much for years. Any for years. But I'm sort of starting to think cross stitch would be a better thing to take on down to our winter place than knitting - because knitting takes so much paraphanalia (I do loom knitting). Once you get all your colors together for a cross stitch project, you don't need a lot of other stuff, except that I did it with a frame. I think these days I would need one of those big bright lights, too, though.
I once saw someone in NY advertising on Craigslist for someone to do a cross stitch for them because they loved the scene but didn't know how or didn't have the time to do it themselves. You might be able to feed your addictions and help a few people with unfinished cross stitch projects if you ask around. I wish I could be so single-minded.
But I'm with Gentlearts - if I had another life I'd be a master tailor and I'd do every kind of needlework ever. Maybe I'd do some embroidery on all the clothes I made (which would all fit for a change). In my spare time I could take up tatting and lace making. I worked with someone who married a Spaniard and she told me stories of watching the ladies in Spain sitting on the sidewalk with bobbins of thread and hand weaving lace. She had a shawl that she bought from them and she let me wear it at a function for an hour and it was amazing.
Just finished a huge long post and realized at the end I was talking about needlepoint, not crewel! So I've deleted all that - but I do think crewel patterns still exist. Try online (you probably have already).
You know what = I'd try lots of Sally Ann's and thrift shops and look in their books/magazine sections. I'll bet you might find lots of crewel patterns there.
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Reason: add para.
Have any of you missed doing Crewel ? Did it just go 'out of style'?
I did a lot of it several years ago, and would like to get back to doing some -- cannot find it anywhere. Nothing in catalogs either.
Yes, I did crewel embroidery and it was much more beautiful than cross stitch.
I made this crewel replica between husbands, so that must have been about 1978-1980. Sorry it is sideways.
Funnily enough, I met the sister of the friend of a friend, who had married a Dutch man, and so, had lived in the Netherlands. She visited my house and had also made the exact same embroidery.
It is a Williamsburg replica.
LOL, I think of it as a tribute to my younger eyes.
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