Egyptian Blocks - Received

On the CQ for Newbies list, JK hosted an Egyptian Themed Swap. These are the ones I recieved.

Deborah H

I can see that you love turquoise - as the block I got made by you is mostly that in background fabrics, and it is lovely! The appliqued images across the block are very nicely done, and the center embroidered queen is beautifully done. Your stitching is very pretty and so neat and even. Very nice!

Sharon R

What a well done block. The stitching is so nice. Love the scene with Moses in his basket floating across the river. A nicely done ankh and a gold metallic Eye of Horus or Eye of Ra. Very nice, indeed. The metallic looks multi colored in the scan, but it is gold.

Thank you both very much for participating in this fun swap!

And thank you, JK for hosting this for us!!

Another Egyptian Block - Finished

Such fun it was stitching this block. There are several ladies on CQ for Newbies doing more than one, but I think the two will be all for me. It was really something different for me! You can see the first one here.



Since I finished the first Egyptian block, I decided to work on another one. It has been fun building the blocks with more earthy tones, and finding motifs to include. Here's the one I made last night.

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...