Erica's Stitches

I'm working on a mystery band sampler for the 35th Anniversary of my EGA Chapter. It started last January and I'm only slightly behind instead of really behind.   That's because I'm stitching 2 inch squares instead of rows.   When the band of the month is a repeating pattern, I can simply stitch one of the repeats, but for bigger designs like Pikes Peak or the EGA Logo I need to crop the pattern to make it fit in the square. I've been using scraps of leftover linen and basting the 2 inch squares.  Recently I basted 6 more squares so when I have a spare moment I can fill in the squares. I'm probably going to end up with more than 12 squares.  Some bands will become multiple squares.  I've also come across some patterns I'd like to include just for fun. Originally I was going to sew the squares together into cubes but now I think I'll add small fabric borders to each square and make a wall hanging. I'm hoping that this idea works o...

It's a box! In June 2009 I started working on a mystery sampler from the Rocky Mountain Region of EGA .  It was a lead-up to their 2010 regional seminar and published on the web.  The link works now, but I don't know how long it will work. I stitched on the sampler every month until June 2010 and then the finishing lagged a little.  I didn't attend the seminar so I had to wait for finishing instructions (which I modified a lot). This was the best mystery sampler I've done to date. This isn't all of it but it is most of it.  The section with the motifs was the hardest.  We were given a page of motifs and instructions to do what we wanted.  I don't want to admit how much time I spent re-arranging my most favorite ones trying to get them all to fit.  I also experimented with adding an alphabet which I'm really glad I didn't do since the sampler got turned on it's side. The finishing suggestion was a box.  I used the best of the instructions r...