Crazy Quilt Block 95 Pattern and Hand Embroidery Details

Crazy quilt block 95 is weird mix of stuff! As readers know when I made this quilt one of my personal challenges was to use my stuff on it since it is a Y2K quilt not only was I drawing from stash but I wanted to find and use 2001 unique pieces of …

Crazy Quilt Block 94 Pattern and Hand Embroidery Details

Crazy quilt block 94 has a different colour scheme – or a different scheme what I normally use.  As regular readers know when I made my I Dropped the Button Box Quilt I pulled everything on the quilt from my stash. Not only did everything come from my stash this quilt is Y2k quilt so another challenge …

Crazy Quilt Block 93 Pattern and Hand Embroidery Details

Crazy quilt block 93 is possibly one of my favourites. If you are a new reader to this site the I Dropped the Button Box Quilt is set with blocks that are arranged by colour in diagonal lines.  You can see the quilt  in the on the CQ details FAQ page.  My challenge was to have …

Crazy Quilt Block 83 on the I Dropped the Button Box Quilt

Crazy Quilt block 83 has a music theme. When I discovered a scrap of some quilters cotton depicting a violin, the idea of this block was born. Jerry my husband plays the violin  and when we met (40 years ago) he earned his living playing in a West Australian band called …

A pink crazy quilt block completed for the stitch sampler quilt

Over the Easter break I completed a pink crazy quilt block for my sampler quilt. The idea behind this quilt initially was to experiment with different stitch combinations as applied to crazy quilting which I am doing – after a fashion. I am resorting to stitch combinations that are old favourites. As …