Bonnet stitch

Week 27 of Tast brought the Bonnet stitch to us -
I made an effort to finish it and post it on Flickr and Stitching Fingers and now here
before the new weeks starts with new duties

I call it "Over and under with Bonnet stitch"

As a focal point I added a few beads.

I bought the variegated green-blue thread and I used perlé 8 and 5.

Stitching the last upper row in green-blue I had the feeling that something

should still happen on this sampler. A few very long stitches made it and

they looked like green branches of a bush - I added a few dark iridescent beads as berries.

Quilt, feathers and Tast 2012 week 1

Big bang ........ I took it up again - last year's project

Excuse me - not this one - the fire cracker went into the air

on New Year's eve in front of our house -----

But this one..... which is not exactly my New Year's resolution -

Just because everything is to normal again

It is the beginning of a new feather and I took a photo - the first one - with my Ipad which I got for Christmas - well the used one of our son - it is so good - the photo is not very sharp - but it is really so much faster to make.

 Irish Chain with sprinkled-over feathers.

Every day one feather more -

no, too much.... every week at least one ---

The white fabric of the large square is of a different white -
it is a scrap quilt - I used what I had

Today started TAST 2012 with SharonB. Week 1 - fly stitch.

I made a January flower using only fly stitches, see here: week 1

It is a hand dyed piece of cotton which I made two years ago
I think I will stitch all January stitches on the same piece of fabric
and start on a new one the following month.