Finished Green Crazy Patch

Looking at Queeniepatch's blog yesterday gave me a reminder that I hadn't posted images of my crazy patch that I finished a couple of weeks ago.

Sharon Boggon gives lots of tips in her book The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design and one of the tips was to use plastic canvas to help keep your stitching even and straight. I didn't have any so some of my stitching is not neat and regular although it's not as noticeable to me now that the block is finished.  I did try using some tapestry canvas and it did work to some extent although the count was smaller so two squares were equal to one on the plastic canvas. I also found my marks were getting rubbed off as I worked. The ribbon roses [light green] are very small as I only had one length and I didn't want to run out before the end of the row. I've been working on another patch which I started last week.

Green Crazy Patch

I bought a new book recommended by Queeniepatch called The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design by Sharon Boggon which is very informative and which inspired me to have a go at an embroidered patch. I have done crazy quilting before but not with lots of embroidery decoration.

My plain block is shown above and I started the embroidery on one of the short corners below.

The author of the book, Sharon Boggon also has the website called pintangle where you will find the 'Take a Stitch Tuesday' challenge which is excellent for learning embroidery stitches each week.

Green Collage

A collage made up of artwork, some hand painted, some inkjet prints, doily, leaf print. The collage is on a page in an altered book.

Green Sketchbook Pages

Must have been in a green mood when I did these.

Stamped, Brusho, pen and ticket

Brusho, pen and posca pen

Stamped, Brusho, pen, white pen and collage [book page]

WIP Green Strips Embroidery

Friend Helen gave me a pack containing the background fabric, the fabric strips and beads, so I have been using it to embroider some of the TAST stitches on.

The TAST stitches include woven cross stitch, Vandyke stitch, raised chain band, woven zig zag chain stitch. Other stitches are running stitch, French knots and beading. So far. My stitching seems to get more untidy the older I get...

Click on the link to join in the challenge Take a stitch Tuesday

Trees

Made up trees above and the tree below is my version of a Dragon Blood tree, the flowers are my creations.

Created on a tablet.

Green [TAW]

Take a Word - the challenge this week is Green.

I started the pattern above quite a while ago but I thought I would make it into a repeating pattern for fabric. It started off as a paper doyley. Click on the images to enlarge.

The background on the postcard below was also a background pattern that I had done a while ago and not used. I cannot remember what it was originally, but I thought it would make a strange postcard background.

Can you guess what this is?

It is hail on my conservatory windows [roof] which fell to earth yesterday. The original photo is below, I've only altered the colour.

I finished a mixed media and fabric book recently using all things green, if you would like to see it take a look here.

Rainbow Collages

The challenge this week at Take a Word is green so I thought I would show my green collage. 

I have done a series of collages using the colours of the rainbow- blue, green, red, orange, yellow, violet, indigo plus an extra pink one.

These are small collages, just 4"x4" and are made from art work, painted papers, found papers, printed art work etc

Blue

Red

Yellow

Violet

Orange

Indigo

 Pink