Here are a few fun ideas and techniques to embellish crazy quilt blocks with more than embroidery alone. Beginners often think that you embellish crazy quilt seams you use embroidery and perhaps add a few beads but you can do a whole lot more on a crazy quilt block to …
Here I am with my next block in the challenge. Sitting in my twirly chair waving it all about as my 2020 quilt block 23 has 39 different items on it! Why is that exciting? As regular readers know the challenge is to use 2,020 different items on a quilt made …
Crazy quilt block 99 is another favourite from my I Dropped the Button Box quilt. Regular readers will know that when I made this quilt one of my personal challenges was to use up some of my stash and since it is a Y2K quilt I wanted to find and use 2001 unique pieces of …
Crazy quilt block 97 is another favourite block of mine. As usual you can click on the photo to see a larger version. See the blue lace in the top left corner. It has a story attached to it. I used some very old piece of lace which in junk …
ManyCrazy quilting beginners get stumped at the hand embroidery stage of a block. I decided to write a tutorial on how to hand embroider crazy quilt seams. You do not have to be an expert stitcher to embroider a crazy quilt block. What you need to do, is develop the …
The first block sits in the top left hand corner of the crazy quilt has a dominant tone of grey. For this reason it is possibly one of the least attractive blocks in the quilt. A you can see there are 6 areas, each of a different fabric. I used …
