I found something new to "blog" about. I've been embroidering since I was a young girl. And in the seventies I made and embroidered shirts for my husband and his best friend. They were well done from patterns I found in magazines. I had gotten quite good at it. Then in the eighties I switched to cross stitch and then to quilting. But during this time Jack and I were always trying to get me back to embroidery. I always dreamed of making a beautiful crazy quilt from velvet and satin and silk. I've still got what a started back then and someday would love to see it finished. But I never understood crazy quilting like it is nowadays. There's so much more to it than fancy embroidery on the seams. I've been trying to get there and I've taken my first step. I'm taking free internet classes from Kathy Shaw and I'm learning design and color and planning and ribbon work and motifs and the use of lace and buttons. So very much learning to do. But this time my squares were so much better, I could feel it. I know they are just a beginning, and I will go much farther than this if I keep trying, but I wanted to blog about my progress. So here they are. I'll post again when I put them together.
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