New Egyptian Swap

Several have commented on the motif in the middle - Sphinx or Tut ?? - well, I can't clarify it for you! My intention was to make a curved seam there with the soft, gold fabric. It was too much of a curve for what I intended, so I was folding it to see what could be done, and it draped in such a way that it made me think of this, so started with the face, then the band at the top, and finally the earring. It's a total accident that turned out well enough for me to leave it.

The pyramid is a velvet triangle that I ran across while 'auditioning' fabric. I did a buttonhole stitch around the edges, attached it to the block, then buttonhole stitched with a copper colored metallic thread to make the blocks and angle. I traced the ankh from a graphic shapes book onto tissue and stitched through that. The snake was an after thought to help balance the pyramid. I found a listing of hieroglyphics to 'spell' out the word Egypt and free handed them in chalk to stitch.

Thanks for your kind words!!




Here's my Egyptian block. JK and I must have had some of the same ideas, hu?


JK over at the CQ for Newbies group has started an Egyptian swap, and I made a block last night to embellish. Here's how it's started...