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    Crazy-Quilted Memories: Beautiful Embroidery Brings Your Family Portraits to Life
    Crazy-Quilted Memories: Beautiful Embroidery Brings Your Family Portraits to Life
    Crazy-Quilted Memories: Beautiful Embroidery Brings Your Family Portraits to Life
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    Crazy-Quilted Memories: Beautiful Embroidery Brings Your Family Portraits to Life

    By Brian Haggard

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    Turn family photos and mementos into quilted scrapbooks with this crazy quilting guide featuring 10 projects and 24 embroidery stitches.

    In Crazy-Quilted Memories, quilt artist Brian Haggard shows readers how to turn treasured family keepsakes—including photo prints, buttons, beads, and other keepsakes—into meaningful quilt embellishments. He offers a fresh take on traditional crazy quilt techniques, as well as 24 basic and combination embroidery stitches to create never-before-seen motifs.

    Each of the 10 projects featured in this volume will tell a story about your life and family history in unique and creative ways. Lovingly stitched by hand, these small, portable projects are destined to become prized family heirlooms for generations to come.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 1, 2011
    ISBN9781607052302
    Crazy-Quilted Memories: Beautiful Embroidery Brings Your Family Portraits to Life

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    • 5/5
      Crazy Quilted Memories by Brian Haggard is a gorgeous book with wonderful inspiration for making your family pictures and small heirloom collectibles into a work of art. The instructions are quite detailed, including various embroidery patterns and stitches to use as accents. Most everyone who sews has an accumulation of buttons, laces, beads, and such that can be used on these projects. I absolutely love this concept and plan to create a family gallery of photos on a wall hanging featuring some of my ancestors using some of the author's techniques and tips.

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    Crazy-Quilted Memories - Brian Haggard

    CHAPTER 1

    Introduction

    This book is something new! As you read, you will find that it is not like traditional quilt books. The heart of what I want to show you is how to start with something you really love and let it build from there. Measurements don’t matter. Design as you go—let the piece grow organically and let your imagination take you where it will. You won’t get bored because the design becomes a work of the heart. When I make a piece, the design happens as I work on it; I don’t know where it will go when I start. I enjoy the type of quilting that I do because it’s not predictable.

    CHAPTER 2

    Fabric moves me, and I only purchase what I love.

    First and foremost, as an artist, you must always select fabric that you love; choose textures, colors, and styles that inspire you. Find pieces that create an illusion or jog a memory— whether it’s from childhood or the present day, it should mean something to you. These fabrics will form the base of your quilt. Working with your personal palette of colors, textures, and types will give you that wonderful sense of home and history.

    I like working in a neutral palette. I don’t like a lot of busyness. I want my stitching, not the pattern of the fabric, to become the artwork.

    Don’t be chintzy with fabric. Buy the best you can find. You want a wonderful piece of art today and in 100 years— remember, you are the creator of the next generation of art. I often use 100% cotton because I like the feel of an all-natural fabric. Consider upholstery-weight cotton fabric. I love it! I use it in edges, borders, and so on, because I like the weight of it. Once in a while, when I long for the sheen of silk or satin or the comforting weave of linen, I go for it!

    I showcase my handwork on nonbusy fabrics. When choosing fabrics for your quilt, don’t let bold colors and patterns overpower the beauty you’ll create with your embellishments. Embellishments tend to get lost in powerfully patterned fabrics.

    Handwork showcased on nonbusy fabrics.

    CHAPTER 3

    My look is vintage and timeworn and suggests a tattered past. I achieve it by using things that have a history, created by the choices I have made. I create the vintage look by picking, dyeing, pressing, and heating fabrics and trims.

    What do you have? Pull out your stash and find what you love! Look around for things that inspire you and put them together. Find a beautiful vintage fabric that speaks to you and buy a couple of yards for borders, backing, and binding. This is how I design, and it’s what I want to teach you. Relax and let the art take you where it wants to go.

    Choosing Fabrics

    Start by choosing natural fabrics with an aged, worn feeling. Press with a very hot iron. If you use steam, the fabric will flatten and compress as if it’s been lying in a drawer for years. If you use spray starch, you’ll get a polished sheen; the threads will be mashed by the heat of the iron under the starch and will blend into the fabrics, giving them the appearance of having been laundered many times. All-natural fabrics and all-natural threads won’t melt with a hot iron like synthetics will. (You can use synthetics, but you’ll need to put a pressing cloth over them, so they won’t stick to the face of your iron. That, my friends, is not

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