This morning I will talk about two details. The first is the floral motif pictured above and the second is  the lace that runs beside the seam.

Stitches:

The floral motif is made up of  bullion knot roses, fly stitch leaves and French knots.

The lace and seam are both embellished with  detached chain stitch and straight stitch.

Thread:

The bullion roses and French knots are both worked in a hand dyed cotton the same weight and thickness as perle thread #8. 

The leaves are worked in both wool and cotton. A strand of each was threaded in the needle and worked at the same time as you would work two strands of floss. They were hand dyed together and the different fiber dyed different tones of the same colour. 

The thread used to embroider the lace was also hand dyed cotton. 

Placement and Foundation Fabric: 

This seam is between piece 6  and piece 2. You will find the diagram in the article I wrote when I introduced block 7 In the same article I also talked about the foundation fabrics I used. 

Type of lace 

I think the lace is cotton rayon mix because of the way it took the dyes. 

Dyes: 

Procion cold water dyes for the cotton, wool and lace 

The back story

This crazy quilt block is part of my “I dropped the Button box” quilt. I am documenting this crazy quilt detail by detail, every second day. You will find information about this series of articles and the quilt here  and all articles in the series are categorised under Crazy Quilt  details 

On another note:

Just a quick reminder for those who are interested in taking a class with me. Introduction to Silk Ribbon Embroidery is scheduled to begin on June 18, 2009 and Studio Journals: A Designer’s Workhorse is scheduled to begin on June 11, 2009. Follow the links to read class descriptions and I have described  how classes work if you are curious.