Two More ATCs Finished

I finished up two more ATCs last night for the upcoming EAC ATC Swap. These ones have a bit of a story behind them. My friends in High River mostly lost all their Christmas decorations in the flood because it seems that everyone tends to keep them in their basements. So my Christmas gifts to them this year were crazy quilt Christmas items. I used a round robin block with a Christmas theme as an insert in the top of a photo box for my dear friend Eileen and forgot to take a photo of it to share. Anyway, there were scraps left over so I finished them up as ATCs and they came out really nicely and not a stitch of the original block was wasted this way.
I finished these ones up in a slightly different way and it worked very well so I'll share my method. . After stitching the front and back of the ATC together, I stitched gold trim around the edge slightly overlapping the edge of the ATC. I sewed the same trim to the back in the same method making sure to line them up. Then I whip stitched the two outside edges of the trim together all the way around. It worked wonderfully and solved my usual problem of being unable to seem to finish the edges neatly.

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Giveaway Day! (CLOSED)

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BAS - Week 79 - Feather Stitch Variations

I have about the next twenty BAS stitches scheduled and by happy coincidence this week's BAS is a series of Feather Stitch variations which coincide with this week's TAST stitch if you are following. So, we can hit two birds with one stone! These hardly look like feather stitch but they are. They are created by making the "v"'s of the feather stitch vertical on the inside. Very simple to do but a different look to an old stitch. The second variation is created by doing two feather stitches at a time on each side, again making sure the inside of your "v"s are vertical and line up as much as possible. Same thing again in this one except they are in series of three. To me these have the look of stitching on old crazy quilts so they are nice to add to your stable of stitch variations. Hope you enjoy them and have fun!

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