01-03-07 FIT progress and more herringbone

Before I talk about the pics below I want to say that on the Stitching Post blog:

here.

There have been some new posts for the Paisley challenge. Mandy H. has been learning how to wet felt and also free motion embroider...you should see the three paiselies she has come up with. One is a very bright wet felted motif, another piece has two paisely the same done with FME and the third piece used machine stitched paiselies as a repeat on the background and a slipped paisely for the foreground....i won;t spoil it by describing any of them in detail....just go see for yourself! Mandy also has her own blog

here.

Also, try as I may, i cannot seem to get the comments turned back on for the posts....have a post in blogger help about it so maybe it will get figured out. In the meantime, any comments can be directed to me through my email address at the right in the sidebar.

The first pic below shows the further working on the first cotton block i have chosen to work on for Sandie's
UFO challenge.
I have done some work on the motif in the middle adding some running stitches and then some filled lazy-daisies around the circles. I also did some work on the seam with the orange-y flowers but i am not nuts about it and it either needs ripped out(the yellow stitches) or added to. I also added some chain stitch lines around some of the edges which i think adds a certain sense of boundary to it. And, i have been adding another set of wide band border type stitches in the upper left. It is based on the herringbone and is not finished by a long shot. There is a detail of it in the second pic.



This wide band stitched border is based on the herringbone...with some straight stitches at the little crossed intersection and then horizontal straight stitches in between the crossed parts to give it an overall look of being tiled....then i did some fly stitches...to me it makes a great looking lattice just as it is.And I can certainly see filling a larger area with this as an allover pattern. However, i won;t be filling the orange patch with this, but i will be working more on it. Haven;t decided exactly what to do but there will be much more done in the spaces and possibly on the inside edges. Stay tuned...lol......

FITS challenge-project for January

Well, here it is..lol.....the FITS(UFO) project that i am going to finish in January.
I have an odd assortment of smallish cotton blocks that are part way embroidered. This one is actually most of the way embroidered but still needs some work in various areas. I have indicated on the scan where i am going to do the work and after that I am going to turn this block into the cover for a small fabric booklet. Just something with a few pages that i can fill with various things. I want to make so that i can send like a multipaged card of good wishes to a friend of mine. The part that i am committing to for January is to get the front cover done, and then make the booklet itself. The inner pages will be done one at a time as I can....but definitely they will be a priority and probably will end up being the thing i do each month as a ufo.....hopefully it won;t take very many months!