Monday, May 11, 2015

First Crazy Quilt piece

 Progress on my first ever crazy quilt piece.  It's a 9" x 9" block for this month's stitchery guild project.  Some of the stitches I've used are:  chain stitch, french knots, chevron, lazy daisy, fly stitches, bullion, ribbed spider web and straight stitches.  I'm going to try a herringbone next on one of the remaining seams. 
 I'm learning a lot about what not to do on my pulled thread chatelaine project.  #1 save doing the neat hedebo edging to the end so that it can go into a hoop easily #2 don't pull too tight as it can warp the design (as you can see on the left hand side sample).  Once I get the rhythm of the pattern going it's quite enjoyable and relaxing to do.
 4 layers of roving with bits of wool and silk hankies all layed out and ready to begin the felting process.  There's a rubbery circle piece in the middle to act as a resist.
 After wetting and rolling and shocking and throwing, I removed the inner circle and voila.  I was very happy that it turned out to the size I wanted.  I started with 15" x 15" and it felted down to 12" x 12" which is just what I wanted.
 This is a different felted piece that I was experimenting with some needle felting on as well.
It was lovely to see the bees on our blooming Nanking cherry tree.

Happy May everyone :)

20 comments:

  1. Lovely shot of the bee well done for catching that. Love all of your felting how all of the colours mingle together. crazy quilting is a fabulous excuse for trying different combination stitching.
    Have a good week.

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  2. I love your CQ piece and have wanted to do this for a very long time. Lovely felted piece and that circle space is amazing. Lovely Cherry Tree and Bee. Your Creative Bliss is in Full Bloom Dear...

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  3. Yay! You're crazy quilting! It looks absolutely great - especially like that pretty woven flower on the bottom left. Gorgeous!!

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  4. Is that really your very first cq block? You have selected a lot of beautiful stitches, placed and combined them well and the result is very impressive.
    I am also enjoying pulled work and lean a lot for each stitch.
    Felting is your 'thing' and it shows how professional you are.
    Great photo of the bee among the cherry blossoms.

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  5. I love the work on your crazy piece Jeannette - beautiful. Lots of other lovely things too as always - pulled work was a favourite of mine at one time and surprise surprise, another owl!! Great picture. xx

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  6. I see a bit of tatting in there too! You're doing a beautiful job. I wonder where I put my CQ block?

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  7. Your crazy piece looks just that.. in a nice way of course!!

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  8. Your pulled thread piece looks great!

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  9. Your CQ patch is lovely with many textures; the spider web flower (i think) looks so pretty!!

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  10. You did a beautiful job with your CQ piece, Jeannette! I think it helps when you have so many interesting threads in your stash!

    The pulled thread piece is so pretty too -- at first I thought it was knitting!

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  11. Love your first CQ block, my first one wasn't that neat! Do I see some tatting next to the bird?

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  12. Gorgeous Work. Makes me want to take this up again.

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  13. Look at you go! ;) Looking forward to seeing it in person and visiting with you again. ♡

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  14. Your block is lovely, I can see this being the start of something wonderful!

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  15. Your trees are way ahead of ours. The leaf buds are swelling but not yet out. I love all the textures in your piece.

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  16. Your crazy quilting is beautiful! I'm working on my first piece of crazy quilting too.

    That photo of the bee and the flower is amazing!

    I've recently started a weekly Stitchery Link Party for all things hand embroidered and I'd love to have you come link up this post so that my readers can come enjoy it too.
    http://www.supermomnocape.com/2015/05/18/vintage-embroidery-monday-stitchery-link-party-6/

    If you've never participated in a link party before I have a short tutorial available for how to do that. I do hope you'll come join in.

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  17. What a lovely surprise when I scrolled down and found the owl. Your crazy quilting is wonderful.
    Carol
    xx

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  18. Your CQ block looks beautiful,doesn't look like a first one. cute butterfly! Your pulled thread piece is coming along beautifully...

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  19. Pretty amazing for your first crazy quilt project - but then, beautiful stitching carries forth to any project, and yours is always so lovely.

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