Carol Harper's articles with the keyword: tast 2014

In the past week, I have completed five 4.5" square crazy blocks for swapping at the guild retreat (Technique taught by Mary Lee G at guild on the 9th of October. I have yet to master working with small pieces so my scraps are a little on the large side.): the October Crazy Quilt Journal block (I do much better using a foundation and a larger blocks size; these are 6" square finished): and the Take a Stitch Tuesday Stitch # 134 (Fern stitch). I played a little with adding beads t…

Well, I had hoped for more progress after the International Hermit and Stitch Weekend got me back on track with the RYO mandalas. And I would have done a lot better if that darned frog wasn't still in the house. Oh well, almost halfway through the outline for "Bride": And I did get in the newest Take A Stitch Tuesday assignment: #131, Beaded Lock Stitch. I rather like the look of this one and tried it two ways, with the beads stacked on the right and staggered on the left: The expe…

Got in some stitching on my Crazy Quilt Journal block for February, where I carried on with some of the Hoffman Challenge fabrics for 2014: and Sharon B came up with a new stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday: The Eastern Stitch (or Egyptian Buttonhole Stitch), which I tried stitching three ways:

An interesting stitchy week which included WIPocalypse, International Hermit and Stitch Weekend and a completion ("Ladybug & Daisy")! Kind of left my project bag a little thin so I finally bit the bullet and started the outline for "Roll Your Own", the first of nine mandalas from a Tracy Horner/InkCircles stitchalong which has been kitted up for months but never started. The outline is fiddly in that it needs to be carefully counted, so there will be no frogging, so I am going very slowly on thi…