Monday, December 6

Japanese cute: quilt label


Remember the quilt top I made a couple of weeks ago? Well I need to finish it within the next two weeks so it was time I started on the quilt label. I chose a cute design from one of the Japanese Embroidery Books I have. I changed the design a bit, made it a bit larger and added a date. Rather than stitching the Quilt label on the back of the quilt I'm going to make it a part of the quilt backing.

I think a warning is in place now: if you like photos of pretty embroidery stitches LOOK AWAY NOW! Because me and the Cable Chain Stitch didn't get along very well. I even ended up stitching my sampler piece to my skirt, not on purpose I might add. It's one of those stitches for which you ideally have the use of three hands not two!

8 comments:

  1. that's so funny, Nicole! You made me laugh a lot with that!

    It is such a cute label and is going to look fantastic on that gorgeous quilt ;-)

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  2. lol. Silly girl. I think it's kewl that you're trying all these stitches. I'm still experimenting with the bullion stitch. (I'm pretty sure I'm spelling that wrong)

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  3. oh, stitching your piece to your skirt is so cute! I did that once. It was upsetting at the time, but now it's a fond memory and a cute story!
    Happy Stitching!

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  4. Love the label, and love that someone else does funny things... my worst experience was sewing a zip into the hem of a skirt and wondering why I couldn't get my legs through!!

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  5. I probably should have posted a photo of the sampler attached to my skirt but I wasn't so amused at the time!
    @Missi mu I wonder what kind of skirt you were sewing to be able to sew the zip in the hem and not notice until you have finished sewing!

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  6. Oh- that is funny about the skirt! Maybe you would like the look here better with shorter ovals? Interesting to see what the longer ovals look like- not so bad, you know :)

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  7. What stitch is that colorful one? Its pretty!

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  8. It's called a loop stitch (or centipede stitch) :) http://blog.followthewhitebunny.com/2010/11/sorting-scraps-loop-stitch.html

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