City and Guilds Pieces

I have been away this weekend to Paris, this was our first holiday on our own since our honeymoon [19 years ago]!  We had a brill time, we went up the tower, took a boat trip on the Seine and explored the Paris of Versaille.  We looked inside the door of the Ritz which was very luxurious - but we darent go any further, Sunday lunch was 220 euros [each], hence to say we didnt have lunch there!

I have set myself a bit of a tall order, but I am aiming to complete all my college samples for this weekend.  Today, I have completed the samples from weekend 1.

The centre of this sample has shaved wax crayon, pieces of sequin waste, angelina fibres, sweet papers and snippets of sheer fabric layered onto a painted background and ironed inbetween clingfilm [as you do], this is then machine stitched in random places and without snipping the thead.  I used this as a centre for a log cabin block and quilted that using the same machine stitch.

This is my 'Crazy Patchwork' sample, I used a variety of fabrics and machine stitched around the edges using a number of machine embroidery threads.

The centre of this sample is random shaped pieces of sheer in various shades of golds and browns layered onto a piece of painted calico, with a piece of sheer layered over the top.  I used one machine embroidery stitch and changed the width and length of the stitch, I used different colours of green, gold and brown and used this as a centre for a 'Courthouse Steps' sample.

And finally, this piece of machine embroidery is meant to look like moss growing on a wall!!!!  I have used a few threads and tried to layer it up - the sample if horrible and doesnt look any better in real life, but hey ho I just hope it meets the criteria!