Embroidered quilt blocks ideas

This afternoon it was fine and still and not too sunny so I grabbed a few finished items and works in progress and headed outside to take some photos. After what seems forever, Simple Pleasures is finally finished. I quilted a 1/4 inch each side of the block seams ... and echo quilted the triangles in the border. In case you hadn't guessed it's a Hatched and Patched design by Anni Downs. Her stitcheries are so distinctive. For this quilt I used a range of fabrics by Heather Mulder Peterson…

Hello! It’s Stephanie from Sissy Belle Sews here with a special kind of post! In the past, I have posted start-to-finish projects and patterns for you. But today I wanted to share a special project I just finished and tell you how I used my favorite ThermOWeb products to do it! As a quilter, I […] Read more...

Pictures - Three finishes !! Woo Hoo! - I am excited to have these finished and ready to gift. The first two are little quilts and the purse is a Butterick pattern done with batiks. (number B4476) There are lots of changes I made to it, but the front is the same. This is for my sis who made the dean's list yesterday. I

Faced with the dilemma of needing my Vintage Linens Quilt #1 (VLQ#1) for a presentation to the Alamo Heritage Quilt Guild earlier this month and knowing it wouldn’t be back in my possession until t…

Actually this post will be a bit random . . . . . . kinda like how my week has felt. . . . . . & yet, things have been happening & completed!. . . (sort-a). . . I'll start by showing you what the UPS man brought this morning. . . ❀ . . . some cute little Cath Kidston blank booklets. I use these all the time. . . for so many things! I ♥ Cath Kidston things. . . so fresh - so cute. ❀ . . . a Max Lucado book. . . (one of my favorite authors) ❀ . . . & it finally happened. . . I wore out my VCR…

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching link up! We celebrate all types of hand work and enjoy seeing what is being created by hands all around the world... slow and steady, one small stitch at a time! Did you know that yesterday (February 8th) was Hari-Kuyo? This is a 400+ year old Japanese ritual called "Festival of Broken Needles". What is that you ask?!? Hari-Kuyo is the Buddhist and Shinto Festival of Broken Needles which is celebrated in parts of Japan on February 8th. For the past 400…

Embroidered and Pieced Quilt: This project combines some hand embroidery with quilt squares. We did only 12 squares, (6 emroidered and 6 pieced squares) because we didn't want to repeat any of our embroidered designs... but you can make as many squares as you would like...…

Shelly of The Life of Hazel Ilene is sharing an embroidery quilt-along one block at a time. She says, For these blocks, there’s a plain version, and a fancy version. Which you do just depends on ho…

How to Hand Embroider A Quilt to give more texture and more color, quilts are always beautiful, but hand embroidery stitches will make them to look even better!