I recently accepted Dover’s invitation to receive a free weekly sampler and it has become one of my Saturday morning pleasures as their weekly email of offerings has rolled into my inbox. I have been on their list for 3 months or so and not a week has gone passed …
Morning all – I am a bit late but I have a really good excuse. Last night I completed another 8 inch block. As you can see it is the block started when I wrote the review for Dream a Seam templates by Carole Samples last weekend. As a side …
Before the break when I went on holidays I was working on a series of posts that related to crazy quilting. This morning I have finally got back in the swing of things. I thought I would speak about another styles of embroidery often found on contemporary crazy quilts. One …
How do you source materials for crazy quilting? You have a number of options. You can simply buy materials and embellishments but that is an extremely expensive way to go. I am sure that one of the reasons I love crazy quilting is because this style of work appeals to …
Silk Ribbon embroidery has long been associated with Crazy Quilting. The richness of silk ribbon seems to marry well with the extravagance of Crazy quilting. One of the pleasures of Crazy quilting is that you can incorporate all sorts of embroidery techniques. Apart from Silk ribbon embroidery you can experiment …
Todays dash of eye candy is a 6 inch block in the I dropped the button box crazy quilt This is a continuation of my post yesterday. Before I go on however I would like to stress that there are no hard and fast rules in crazy quilting so anything …
I frequently get emails asking me how to do crazy quilting. They arrive in response to either a piece about crazy quilting such as Saturday’s post or because someone has discovered some of the crazy quilting pieces on this site. I promised to answer these on a post by post …
