This is my June block for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project (for more info, click the button on the left sidebar). I am mostly happy with it. It's just the tops on the left that are leaving something to be desired. But since I'm not sure what, I'm going to just live with them for now. They are stitched onto felt and then appliqued on.
I am very proud of the sewing vignette. The petite spools are 1/4" tall. The sewing machine I stamped onto silk and heat set. I drew on all of the notions free hand and then embroidered them using silk mori (Kreinik) and floche and flower thread from DMC. I just discovered those last two. Why didn't someone clue me in long ago??
By the way, this is my grandfather. My nephew looks
exactly like him. The picture is from the mid to late 20s. He is also the gentleman in the uniform in an earlier family block from this year. I have some really cool pictures of him as a baby and toddler in the requisite boy dress.
The 3" windmill is from an Aunt Martha transfer that I shrank. I added the tank and fence. When I was growing up, the neighbors had a tank like this that we used to catch tadpoles from. Life was so much simpler then.
I have had a lot of trouble getting the red marks from the transfer pencil to go away, but I will keep trying.
One of the first things I put on the block was the trellis using hand dyed silk ribbon and Lizbeth thread as an experiment. It looked lonely so I embellished it with hand dyed venice lace and more silk ribbon to resemble grapes.
I used a different color green thread to attach the leaves with the intention of the change to look like veins, but it doesn't work very well. I will probably rethink this.
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