Round Robin Final

I have finished the final block in our Southern Cross Crazies Round Robin and I am just about to post the block off to its owner. It is the first time that I have participated in a Round Robin and I was a bit nervous at first but it has turned out to be a very rewarding experience.

I suppose it was lucky that the other 7 ladies were very good embroiderers and I had such lovely work to view every month. Not only did I get to see other peoples work but I also got a chance to work with other colours and ideas and because we only had to add an eighth of a part of the block, it wasn't too much work to do.
This is the block I received in the final round.

Final Round Block

Beautiful silk ribbon embroidery

Floral Spray

Embroidery using wool
 

Isn't the work lovely?

Because I am the last person to work on this block, it was my job to fill in the spaces and make sure the block was balanced.

I decided that the centre was a bit pale with all the colourful detail around the edges and so I put some silk ribbon flowers near the centre and added some butterflies in silk ribbon in a long narrow spot. You can also see some feather stitch between the flowers and the butterflies and I also added some lazy daisies along the edge of the white ribbon




Silk ribbon flowers and butterflies.

Next I put a spider in the web, added some stem stitch to the lace motif, put some Cretan stitch along one of the seams and below that added another little vine with some purple flowers

 

 

More details

Herringbone stitch

Finally I added a brass butterfly charm on the white fabric below the lace motif. Here is the finished block.

Block finished

I can post this block off to its owner and I have another job off my to-do list!

This has been a rewarding experience and the added bonus was that I got to know some other crazy quilters around Australia just a bit better and who knows we might even meet in person one day!

I wonder what my block will look like when it returns to me!

Bye for now,
Linda