Embroidery crazy quilt

Welcome to the second installment of Embroidery School! Are you ready to go crazy? I hope so because we're going to work through some incredibly beautiful stitches used along fabric seams in crazy quilts. If you haven't worked the lessons from the original Embroidery School series, you can still do this one. All the stitches are explained, the "old" ones and the "new" ones. Here are some links to other useful lessons: Transferring the design to fabric Knotting and not knotting your thread…

The theme of Bees, Butterflies and Beetles was so popular, that a second group of stitchers formed another round robin so they could play, too! In BBBII, the talented stitchers were Margreet, Darlene, Cathy L, Ritva and Beryl - representing countries from all over the world! BERYL’S BLOCK Beryl’s Naked Block Cathy L’s work on Beryl’s block Darlene added the beetles and the Beatles! Margreet’s work for Beryl This gorgeous butterfly was stitched by Ritva More of Ritva’s work Beryl’s completed…

I've taken a lot of pictures of vintage Crazy Quilts, but not very many modern day interpretations. I was especially happy to see 2 contemporary CQ versions at the Arizona Quilters Guild show. All Creatures Large and Small by Gerlinde Hruzek won First Place in the "Other" category. This artist used so many mediums in the making of her quilt: Needlepoint, embroidery, applique, crochet and ribbon work to name a few. The far away picture just does not give justice to how wonderful this quilt…

Are you considering taking up applique embroidery up as an art form, either as a hobby or as a profession? We are aware of the fact that the art of embroidery does not quite enjoy the same valued place as it used to in the past but they are nevertheless an interesting one.

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We have begun our ambitious crazy quilting class with seven lovely and talented ladies. As we mentioned in a previous post, Crazy Quilting—Start to Finish, we have created a six-month crazy quilting class that teaches our students how to piece their blocks, stitch and embellish them, and finally put them together in the format of their choice. Taking photos of the class models for reference All our ladies had been eagerly awaiting this class and were ready to get started. Each student was…

The Seam embellishment for Day 71 of 100 details for 100 days a series of ideas on how to decorate crazy quilt seams

Happy Valentine's Day! I was too crazy busy this year to make anything new for the holiday, but am thinking I should find ways to incorporate hearts year long. Here are some inspirations I found: Lori Kennedy's heart motif she uses in free motion quilting would be fun on several of the quilting projects I have in mind. More information (and some other very inspiring motifs) are on her blog here. Debbie Henry has a good article on creating a crazy heart applique that would look great as a…