At our last Quilting Bee meeting, Carol brought in her crazy quilt block. As you may already know from one of my previous posts. I would at one time like to make a crazy quilt, or at least a wall hanging.
This block is Carol's. She used mainly cotton for her block with some shinny fabric as well (sorry, don't recall what it is called).
This block is Carol's. She used mainly cotton for her block with some shinny fabric as well (sorry, don't recall what it is called).
Like most people, I am attracted to the fancy stitches that are used to embellish the blocks. Each seam is embellished, usually with a different type of stitch. Some of them may be simple, but most of them get pretty fancy.
Some of the embellishments include lace as well, like the picture below. I also like the swag in this section that includes what appears to be embroidered tassels. I've even seen some people use buttons and ribbons to make flowers or clusters of interesting designs
The stitches divide the different fabrics and usually hide the seam altogether. This section of the block below, even used French knots to fancy up a vine, and one of the rows of stitches uses two colours.
This section also has a seam that uses two colours in a fancy chain stitch. Do you see the cream coloured fabric with a large lace in the centre? When the scrap pieces are big enough, some people get very elaborate with larger pieces of lace fancied up with stitching. Others may use the space for clusters of ribbon flowers. I've even seen full sceneries.
I am going to try this one day.......maybe others would like to join me?
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