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 …
Boy have I had a response to the crazy quilt block I posted yesterday! thankyou everyone for your comments. I have also had a number of emails asking me how do I do it? So I am working on a post – or it might turn into a series that …
It is show and tell time as I have been busy completing this latest crazy quilt block for a quilt I am making. Click the image to see a larger version This is an 8 inch block. Stitches used are, in the top left hand corner Chevron stitch is …
The International Sewing Machine Collectors’ Society has a website that publishes a number of articles for sewing machine collectors. The site also houses restoration and care tips as well as pages that are devoted to shuttle identification.
This is a small experiment as on this block I have incorporated a blackwork motif. The story behind this block is that it is one of the many blocks that act for me as a memento of the year we spent living in England. The little blackwork motif I graphed …
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 …
