Crazy sample finished

Well I finished my crazy quilt sample this week with lots of different automatic embroidery stitches sewn in a variety of threads. I must admit it looks so much better now it's finished and bound! I decided to go for a finished size of 8" by 11" for my emboidery samples as I think this will work quite well for my 'Yorkshire Landscapes' theme. I have plenty of ideas for the experimental pieces using an automatic machine stitch using pieced backgrounds. I've had to work on finishing my diploma books this week so haven't done any more samples yet. Hopefully I'll have more to show next week!

Going Crazy!

After ranting about how I didn't like crazy patchwork last weekend I decided I shouldn't be so negative and had a go at a sample today. I'm afraid it is the ugliest example you will ever see but perhaps it will look better when I've added some embroidery and binding!

I've also added a couple of pages to my sketchbook. The first is inspired by an article in the current issue of Quilting Arts and for this I used paint colour charts froma DIY store to make a mosaic landscape:

I really like this and would like to have a go at a quilted version. The second was just some simple string printing with 2 small blocks:

So I am making progress ....... slowly!