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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

In My Hoop

The hand embroidery for the Hocuspocusville Quilt blocks is coming along nicely and once again I am so happy I traced all the patterns onto the blocks before I started stitching it makes things much easier to just pick up the next block adhere the backing fabric and begin the stitching.
I also like using just the black floss though I know one day if time permits and I run out of projects I will do these blocks using a variety of colorful threads.

A few days ago I ordered another pattern from Crab-Apple Hill Studios, its the third hand embroidery panel for the Mystery of the Salem Quilt Guild, I love the patterns and the use of crayon tint really brings out the embroidery.
Panel 3 http://www.crabapplehillstudio.com/

Panel 2 http://www.crabapplehillstudio.com/
Panel 1 http://www.crabapplehillstudio.com/
I didn't begin any prep work for the patterns yet, I wanted to wait for all three patterns so I could trace them all at the same time, begin the crayon tinting before I started the hand embroidery. I added the link under each photo from the website where there are many wonderful patterns to chose from if a witch isn't your cup of tea.

3 comments:

  1. Nice projects and you were smart to do all of your prep first. What do you use for backing fabric?

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    1. Hi Jeanna, Most of the time I use muslin for the backing fabric. Thanks for stopping by.

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  2. You keep moving steadily along on the Hocus Pocusville, and the new one looks great, too.

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