Thursday, November 23, 2006

Celtic Knots for Christmas




Well I did get quite a bit of stitching done today - MIL and FIL's Christmas cushions are well underway - okay the centres are done. I mentioned before about using the striped fabric for the bias tubing. I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out. It does make it a little more difficult to see the unders and overs but you can tell if you look closely. I shall put a 1/4" strip in the infill green round these and then a two inch border in the yellow space dyed fabric.

The furnishings in their conservatory are in a pale buttery yellow so they should go quite well.

I'm going to do a couple of cushions for my brother and SIL next in natural neutrals. Same format, same celtic knotwork but possibly piecing the background as I have a whole bunch of FQ's in the same shade of stone with a different cream pattern on each. The pattern is a bit too pronounced on the front but will work well using the reverse side of the fabric - I often prefer the reverse of fabrics and use them often - in fact the green infills on the photos here use the back of some Sprayway I had which wasn't subtle enough for this project.

Wonder if little girlie will be well enough to go back to school tomorrow - who knows I might get some more bonus stitching time - really need to go to work and clear the pile on my desk - but we'll see what the morning brings.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great effect with the striping!

wendy harbaugh said...

I love celtic knot work. I have a jacket I an doing with embroidery with images from the book of Kells. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Yep I tat and do alot of other things. I like your site I noticed you have some hex quilts I have a few on my site too. I don't know if you noticed them. Theya re under the title of quilts and there is on that hexs so small that almost 7 with under a U.S. quarter.

Have a great day it was lovely to viisit with you
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Quilts And Pieces said...

Wow those are really cool. You did an awesome job and the striped fabric looks really fun with it!

Libby said...

Your blocks are beautiful -- love those stripes.

Patti said...

Love the way the stripe looks in the bias. Very clever of you - I've never seen anyone do that for Celtic work before.