stamped embroider quilt blocks

I always have an embroidery project at hand for watching TV or waiting for appointments. Most of mine are Redwork designs that I trace or draw myself rather than stamped goods.

My ongoing redwork project is a memory quilt. I use the simple drawing style of the "penny squares" worked by children in the early 1900's. Each time we travel I draw a design representing that trip. Since I am not a great artist I often purchase children's coloring books at gift shops while on vacation and use those pictures as the basis for my drawing. Other squares have special memories like when my friend died I traced a little Dutch girl holding tulips because my friend was from Dutch heritage.

As far as the stamped goods, I saw a wonderful idea in Branson, Missouri. They had taken a standard stamped design of a butterfly surrounded by flowers. The butterfly was appliqued instead of embroidered like the original blue outline indicated. The flowers were embroidered. It made a beautiful quilt. I have maybe half of the blocks embroidered for that quilt and the fabric cut for the appliqued butterflies.

Susan

I haven't done any stamped quilt blocks,exactly, but I love to embroidery too! I usually have to trace my pattern and then embroidery it.

Cindy

Hey, Polly, I am in desperate need of covering a chain link fence this summer. Can ya ship me up some of that vine I've heard so much about? I don't think it will be as pestful up here with our cold winters, but just in case, ship it in a plain brown wrapped box with "Candy & fabric" written on the outside. Oh, and make up a return address.

Cindy

LOL Cindy. I wouldn't be surprised if the kudzu learned to adapt. I understand it was introduced to slow or stop soil erosion. Problem is, no one knows if it ever worked or not, since no one ever saw that ground again!

Yeah, I'd hate to be responsible for the "eating of the Midwest"!

Cindy

Are you SURE you want KUDZU?????? Guess you know you can never get RID of the stuff once it gets growing!!! Barbara in Central Florida and SC where we have way too much of the stuff!

Not being from the South originally, I don't know all of the finer points in the history of Kudzu. It's my understanding that it was imported from Japan to help with soil erosion. Problem is, no one ever thought about the difference in the environment in Japan a the environment in the South. In Japan they have real winter where the temps get to freezing and below and actually stay there for days on end and this kills off the kudzu so that it doesn't take over the country. This doesn't happen in the South so we have the vine from hell. I know I have told you guys this before but it's worth repeating. I saw a t-shirt in one of the tourist shops in Dahlonega several years ago. It had a very faint image of a collegiate seal with "School of Agriculture" written below. In darker letters center across the seal it said School of AG Final Exam Question -- How do you grow kudzu? Answer -- toss the seeds and run like hell.

I always thought that was a pretty good answer -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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nope you don't really want to help make it all the way to the midwest lol

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whoa, Nellie!!! this stuff is new to me. looked at the pix, followed a link to someone who makes paper cards, baskets, jelly, built a barn out of bales of the dried stuff.

wonder, hmmmmm, could this prolific pest be used to fuel cars somehow?anyone got a scientist in the house that ever wondered bout this.sure it only grows in the right climate but i'm sure they'd have more than enough room round the south.i'd hate to see it get into NZ tho. it would grow right over the whole country in a week at most with the weather here in Auckland.warm and wet most of the year. never drops below 4F at 4 am in dead of winter even. but as fuel, hmmmmm, could work? or not? jeanne

I am glad your country doesn't have it. I wish my government would halt the import of plants and insects from Asian countries. We have kudzu vine, mimosa trees, various forms of bamboo, and Japanese lady bugs, just to name a few, all multiplying unchecked. Debra in VA See my quilts at

ah men and their collective wisdom sometimes, lol. the one i love is using one critter to combat another, then the introduced one takes over and becomes a bigger pest.

rabbits brought here for whatever reason, could well have been to combat some other critter. they have a 'once a yr' culling round easter, iirc. then had to bring in a virus to kill off the rabbit population. they still breed out of control every yr. oh well. keeps the shooters happy in autumn, i guess. jeanne

I have seen a lot of the places those photos were taken! Dahlonega is just up the road a bit from where I live -- about 30 miles north. I will have to say that I am VERY glad we don't have any kudzu to deal with in my subdivision. Once that stuff gets hold it never goes away. Very pretty but *nasty* stuff to have to deal with!! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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why not grow sweet peas up the chain link fence? or morning glorys...if they are allowed. here they are on the 'garden pest' list so you cant buy the seeds or plants. something similar. oh how about choko vegetable or loofa vegetable or something of that nature. theres gotta be heaps of things you could grow up for either their floral beauty or as a vegetable...apple cucumbers, those round yellow low acidity cukes, nice in salads. a chain link fence is strong and could support the weight of cukes. just thunk'n outloud again, jeanne

Cindy, In a couple of weeks I can send you some. We do get freezing temps here in KY and we are covered up in the stuff. We are afraid to leave our windows open at night for fear it will be in our beds and choke us to death by morning. They say if you can get to the root of the stuff it sells for good money, but how would you find the actual root, it could be in another state.

Jacquel>> more permanent than a kudzu vine. Polly

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Jeanne, Last summer we were driving down the road and were talking about all the Kudzu and how close it was starting to get to our property line and I told my dad and sister's that there would be no fuel shortage if someone could figure out how to make fuel for automobiles out of it. You make me laugh because if one thought I was stupid but I, like you think it is a pretty good idea.

Jacquel>whoa, Nellie!!!

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Ooooo! Scarlet runner beans, clematis, grapes, wisteria, hops, tomatos, or roses. All of those would look well, and some of them would be quite useful too. Be a good place for just about any pole bean, you wouildn't need to fuss with the poles. Or you could do something like plant sunflowers all in front of it.

NightMist