Slow getting started this week, but finally got to the Algerian stitch. The best way for me to form the stitch was beginning from the outside edge to the inner point. Here are some examples done on a Travel quilt block.
How interesting that is on that fabric! That's the perfect embellishment for those squares. I haven't tried it yet. Got the circles drawn but haven't stitched.
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"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ~Sarah Orne Jewett
"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!" ~ Lydia Maria Child
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. ~Henry David Thoreau
“All negativity is caused by denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Presence is the reality that dissolves the past and future.” ~Eckhart Tolle
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves... ~Carl Jung
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2 comments:
How interesting that is on that fabric! That's the perfect embellishment for those squares. I haven't tried it yet. Got the circles drawn but haven't stitched.
Your work is great and looks lovely on the fabric.
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