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Here are my seams for this week. They are the seams I did on Bonnie's block in the Sampler Round Robin I'm in. This is the first one - using Chevron Stitch as a base I added french knots and detached chain stitch (lazy daisy). Here is the second seam treatment I did. This block had a wonderful green textured fabric with raised maple leaves so I decided to add these green maple leaf beads to one side of the chevron stitch. They are plastic but I really like them - they have a lovely shine to them. On the other side of the Chevron Stitch I added semi circles of straight stitches each one ending with a french knot.

This is the portion of Bonnie's Block where I worked in this round robin. I did a couple of seams - neatly killing two birds with one stone since they were also my Build a Seam seam treatments for this week. I'll post close ups of them in the next post. This go around of this Sampler Round Robin the designated stitches were Chevron Stitch and French Knots so both are contained in the seam treatments I did. This was one of the two motifs that I did on Bonnie's block. It was a piece of reclaimed jewelry - a thrift store find of course, lol - and I used it as a cabachon. First I glued the cameo onto a piece of linen using that wonderful glue, E6000, and stitched around it twice with gold seed beads. I then trimmed the backing fabric as close to the stitches as possible and added another round of beads. Then the whole thing was sewn onto the block. I like doing it like this because if the owner doesn't like it, just snipping a few threads will allow the whole thing to com...