News about Flower Jane

Finally I have patched all blocks of my Flower Jane and sewn them together. One more milestone completed!  As I patched all blocks by hand applying the English paper piecing method, I have to take off all the paper now. Crazy and awful work that I don´t like at all. The quilt needs to be finished until November, therefore I will not sew all the triangles as Jane A. Stickle has done in her famous quilt, but I will use plain triangles for the borders.

TAST 4

This week, the selected stitch of TAST was Kretan stitch - and I never knew how creatively this stitch could be used until I tried tonight. This time, I tried some stitch combinations - all of them on the basis of Kretan stitch. And these are the results.
The complete block looks like that:

It was a block from a crazy swap and it seemed the right one to bring forward the effect of the stitch.

Picture below: On the left, I made a pattern of Kretan stitch, combined it with some kind of weaving and a detached chain stitch. On the right, another pattern combined with dross stitch, knot stitch and detaiched chain.

On the left, a third pattern and buttonhole wheels. And on the right a pattern which can be easily used to fill a complete field.

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On the left a furhter pattern, combined with fly stitch and detached chain. An the yellow one pure Kretan.
And below, just a fantasy line with Kretan stitch.

I really liked this one and am looking forward to next week´s task.

TAST 3

This week was rather difficult for me. First, I tried variations with the demanded Feather Stitch without using other stitches. The first results were disappointing: the first was not very nice and the second one not very creative.

Slowly, results became better:

And I really liked the last one, were I combined Feather stitch with other stitches.

The final block is acceptable, I think:

I wonder which will be next week´s block ...

TAST 2

Oh, I liked this new TAST stitch of Sharon B which was communicated yesterday in the late evening under http://www.pintangle.com/journal/category/take-a-stitch-tuesday . The challenge of the week was the Buttonhole stitch, and I was so excited to experiment with it that I finished the block of last week just with Buttonhole combination. This is the complete block:

 


The details come out more clearly on the following fotos:

Thanks to Sharon who organizes all this for us - this challenge is very motivating and the work of the participants is really inspiring.

TAST 1

Just back from the winter holidays with some skiing and lots of snow I started the TAST of Sharon B.  As I have a large stock of crazy blocks to embellish I will use the TAST to decorate them. The stitch of this week was Flying stitch, one of my favorites. The pictures above show my two versions - one pure Flying stitch variation and one combination with other stitches.