Quilt with embroidered blocks

embroidery blocks quilt

The border on the blocks are scraps left over from making my Triangle Tiles quilt. The center is muslin. I have a collection of old and new iron on embroidery transfers that I've been using for the centers. I've been using two strands of floss for the embroidery. I like to use variegated threads. When I use up the rest of the scraps I'll probably make a different size of block to use up other thirties reproduction scraps. Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More…

This lovely bluework quilt top was made by Carolyn. She told me to do what I wanted and I was in a feather mood. So I stitched around most of the embroidery, leaving some of it not stitched to give it dimension. Then I stitch a frame and filled it with my version of McTavishing.…

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Rescued hand embroidered animal blocks. Pieced by V Unger, hand quilted by Joan Frigillana. Blocks from 1950-60's.

My first entry onto the pictures. Red work Baby Quilt

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My friend embroidered the blocks. I made the baby quilt using 1930's fabrics from my stash. Love how it came out!

I finished my redwork quilt last weekend and I am so excited to put up all my Christmas decorations now! In fact, I had all my kids and grandkids haul up all my boxes with my decorations from the downstairs, so they are scattered in boxes all around the house! It usually takes me 2-3 … Continue reading Stitched Redwork Quilt →

This little quilt is a shop sample for Sew ‘n Sew. It is so sweet – each block has an embroidered picture illustrating a nursery rhyme and the rhyme itself is embroidered around th…

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...…

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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…

Tea Towel & Hankies recycled into baby quilt / table runner.

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