TAST 2015 - Take A Stitch Tuesday

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The Take a Stitch Tuesday (otherwise known as TAST) has started again (yay!) if you want to join in hop over to Sharon's site where you'll find all the details.

Week 1 was Fly Stitch and week 2 was Buttonhole Stitch. I've decided to do a bit of a band sampler with the stitches on some fabric from my stash so I can see how they work up and it'll be my version of a stitch dictionary.


Then I brought out one of my quilt blocks that I've made using some of my daughters old baby clothes, I'm eventually going to put these blocks together to make a memory quilt for our bed as it'll all be made of bits of the kids clothing.


After I'd stitched 2 of the button hole wheels I realised they looked like a dolls pram that my daughter had for her baby annabel, the frame is fly stitch and I appliqued a bit of her white fabric to make the hood.


Snowflake fly stitch as this dark fabric was from one of her winter outfits when she was 10mths old. Then I did buttonhole stitch along the edge of gingham fabric from one of her nursery dresses.





Comments

  1. Tiffstitch25 July 2015 at 16:51

    Those are gorgeous! I'd like to do something with DD's baby clothes, but I haven't gotten farther than separating them from the donation stuff.

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  2. Gina27 July 2015 at 13:40

    Love the idea of the memory quilt. Your stitching is wonderful. I'm joining in with TAST but I haven't started yet. I'm just soaking up all the inspiration

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  3. Renee8 November 2015 at 01:37

    These are lovely stitches!

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