Sarsaparilla Stitches

I worked a little with my camera yesterday and took some photos of my "Sarsaparilla" Crazy Quilt.

I tried to make up stitch combinations that were nature inspired. Of course, here are some birds. On the left side is a cast on stitch flower. These were done using one strand of embroidery floss.

Here are some fish in sea weed and the stitch combination at the bottom was taken from a photo of an antique CQ that I saw on Ebay.

Of course, there must be a spider and web. I used a couple of very tiny crystal seed beads on the web to make it look like dew drops.

Got to have some butterflies. These were inspired by the old patchwork quilts from the 30's.

The purple ribbon at the top of this photo was the ribbon that I talked about in an earlier post that snagged all the time and I had to keep clipping the threads.

Hale-Bop comet was visiting during the time I was working on this so I put it in the quilt. I remember, the day that it was the closest to the earth, and at it's brightest, was on my birthday, and my Husband and I went out and watched it.

For a little whimsy, I played Tic-Tac-toe.

There is that ribbon again. It looks good there but I wouldn't use it again.

Flower pots with daisies.

Bird houses on fence posts.

Houses and trees.

I love these little fans stitches. I believe I got them from Carole Samples, Treasury of Crazy Quilt Stitches book.