Crazy and Sane Part 3

Here's a sneak peak of what the quilt will look like. Please don't ask me how to do this cause it was a class from Cindy Thury Smith from www.quiltuniversity.com
I will be sewing some muslin around the blocks so that I can put it in a hoop to finish my work on the blocks. But I am so slow at embellishing I couldn't wait till I was finished with them all to see how this technique would look. And of course I added my own handdyed fabrics for the sane part. Will post pic of the finished project...whenever that may be. lol

Crazy and Sane Part 2

Here are the names of the ladies who made the blocks for me. There are a few whom the name got lost off the blocks, but with them being made in 2001 I'm surprised I have a name left on any of them. The pics below are after I added the sane part to each block. In the first post of Crazy and Sane you can see the blocks that were given to me before I done anything with them.

Lost the name of the person whom made the first block, second block made by Oleta Sherman.

First block made by Brenda Goodwin, second by Susan Jewell. Up till I started to do something with these blocks I had never noticed that when Brenda made this block apparently she didn't pay attention to the placement of the block when she was embellishing.I had to place the block where the heart was upside down, cause I thought it might look a little funny with the spider hanging upside down.

First block made by BJ, second mady by Judy Hlavenka.

Block made by Carla Smith.

First block made by Clarice Williams, second block Edna Spence.

First block made by Alberta Swanson, second by me, this was a block I made learning Judith Baker Montano's peicing techniques in her new DVD. I also took this block to Wichita to practice my stitches in Carole Samples class last November. As you can tell I never finished it. lol But it will get done.

First block made by Wanda second block lost the name of the maker.

First block made by Edna Spence, second made by Jackie Arnold. If you look here second pic on top, you can see I changed the center piece. I added the roses as a center motif instead of the two colors Jackie had put in.This block came naked so I used this block when Sharon B. started the TAST. So the work that was done was done by me,,I was just learning back then. I will finish the block up soon.

Block made by Darlene.

First block lost the name, second block made by BJ.

First block made by Faith Traylor and second by Mary Hamilton.

Lost the name of the person whom made the first block, second block done by Nancy Toney.

Crazy and Sane Part 1

In 2001 I belonged to a quilt group and every month they would draw a name and everyone would make a block for the person that was drawn for that month. I was interested in learning to crazy quilt at the time so I put down I wanted them to make crazy quilt blocks. So you can see here here and here
the blocks that were made for me. Some of them embellished and some of them not.
So I decided to finally do something with these blocks. I am taking Cindy Thury Smith's class Crazy and Sane. So I decided to use these blocks for this class. It is very interesting to see how some of the sane quilters made the cq blocks. You can tell some of them had probably never made a cq block before, but that's ok I believe I can fix them up to be beautiful...I hope anyways. lol I will be changing things in some of the blocks and adding things as I go. Next post will be progress so far. Probably lots of posts on this class so stay tuned everyone.

My Winnings

Wanted to share with you my winnings from Lynn S. in our CQInternational group. They had a purse contest and everyone that voted in the contest got their name put in a drawing for this lovely prize. I love them! Thank you so much Lynn! I am such a lucky person to win this.

Learning Stumpwork

I have been wanting to learn stumpwork so I had a great opportunity of buying two of Jane Nicholas' book from Patricia. My first project will be out of the Stumpwork Embroidery A Collection of Fruits, Flowers and Insects for Contemporary Raised Embroidery. One of the first things is to make buttonhole pad. So here is the pad I made.

I had made this block just playing with different ways to make a block and decided this would be my block to practice new techniques with.

Here I traced the pattern onto some quilting paper and stitched the outline of the pattern.

Here's what it looked like after I took the quilting paper off.

Here I'm beginning the stitching. I can't wait to have the time to get it finished. I

Done the satin stitch to fill in the leaves.

This is as far as I have gotten so far. Will post more pics of my progess of learning to do stumpwork. Hopefully I will be able to work on it some more soon.

June Challenge

This months challenge in CQI is words. So I have had some shiva paintsticks in my drawer for awhile and never have tried them out. So I grabbed them and the stencil and added my words to a cq block I am learning to do stumpwork on. I am hoping to get busy finishing up my stumpwork,,seems to not be enough hours in the day to do everything I would like to do.

Finished Block

I am so behind in getting my posts updated. In CQI I was in a FFT#4 round robin. Here is my block finished. Hideko,Rebecca,and Suzanne done a fabulous job on my block. Thank you ladies!

FFT #4

This is the last block for me to work on in this round robin. It was months late getting to me but it arrived and this is the work everyone done to it so far. I studied it for awhile trying to figure out what I could add.
So here's what I tried to accomplish. I wanted to try to break the strong line between the two patches in the upper right of the block. So I made a little vine with leaves and flowers then added a web and spider. The web goes up into the printed fabric but you can't see it really in the picture.
I couldn't add anything up in the blue printed patch because some one had placed beads there so I decided to put a pansy in the little block. This is my first completed RR in the CQI group so now I can join in any RR I want to. Rebeccah was really pleased with her block. She already has it safely back home now.