Showing posts with label stitchery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stitchery. Show all posts

Friday, 18 September 2009

Tail Feathers - Taking Flight!



Ta Da! One Tail feathers block. It's taken time and some reverse stitching but I got there! I've even made a good start on the next one too. I used to do quite a lot of cross stitch before I got into quilting but I hadn't really tried other stitches until this. Back stitch isn't too bad (not always as neat as I would like) and buttonhole stitch but I find the satin stitch a bit tricky. I am finding it relaxing tho - just right after an exhausting day at work, sitting in front of the tele. I'm afraid I'm not doing so much quilting at the moment as going back to work after the lovely summer break has been hectic.

This week was also Mr Photographer's birthday and the offspring came over in the evening so we went to our favourite curry house - delicious!  He had some of photo related pressies plus some newly remastered Beatles CDs and a Wallace and Gromit airfix kit! I'd ordered some greetings cards with his photos on the front which I am impressed with. They come from Moo (I love the name) and you can have a different picture on every card in a pack. Perhaps I could have some with my quilts on the front.

Sunday, 2 August 2009

Tail Feathers


After a busy morning tidying the vegetable garden I sat down to start another project. This one is a stitchery block of the month called 'Tail Feathers' by Natalie Lymer. I've never done anything stitchery before and people who know me will be surprised as I hardly stitch anything by hand. My interest was sparked a few weeks ago when I saw a fellow student at C&G stitching a free Noah's Ark pattern by Lynette Anderson I found Tail Feathers mentioned on the Buttonberry blog and fell in love with it. The kind girls there said I could join even tho everyone else started in June so I have a bit of catching up to do.

I'm planning to sit and stitch in front of the TV in the evenings.I'll also take it away with me when I go on my annual break to Knuston Hall for a clothes making summer school in a few weeks.

The photo shows the first block pieced together with the applique for the little robin who appears in each block and the markings for the hand embroidery. Watch this space to see if I keep on track!