I Dropped the Button Box quilt – a Millennium quilt

The “I dropped the button box” crazy quilt is a Y2K quilt. What is a Y2K Quilt? It is a Millennium quilt. At the turn of the century as it approached quilters made quilts that had 2000 or 2001 different pieces of fabric in them. Millennium or Y2K quilts were …

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 …

A crazy quilt block

The news today from my little part of the world is that I have completed a crazy quilt block. I had done the embroidery but needed to bead and embellish it. I was asked about the way I work. For crazy quilting projects that are large I need to plan …