I love crazy quilts! This year our guild issued the yearly challenge and I was thrilled to know it was to make a crazy quilt. It has to be 36" square when finished and have a theme.
Mine has a Christmas theme because I had tons of Christmas fabrics left from making Crazy quilt stockings for my sister's family. When finished mine will consist of 4 large squares and a black border. I'll save further details until I get closer to being done.....in case my ideas don't work out!
I hate constructing the blocks themselves, but love doing the fancy stitches. This is one of my four blocks. None of these are done yet and even stitches you see might not be done yet. Every time I look at it, I decide to add things or change things.
A pink flower done with gathered ribbon and some fancy stitches in between.
I will probably stitch something on the red between the beads. Haven't decided about the black yet. Two of my blocks are done in stripes rather than odd shaped pieces. I love how the beads turned out on that plum colored bit. That plum was once a dress that I loved.
A bit of flowers. No idea yet for that grey area. Ideas come to me little by little. Sometimes I just start something and then I get ideas of what to add to it. Crazy stitching is very much a "make it up as you go" sort of project.
I liked the pearls on the plum so much I did another row on this red satin.....and ran out before I got to the end!
A heart with ribbon roses. I love making ribbon roses and will probably add a lot more before I get done.....some on each of the four blocks.
A wreath.
I call this area "the mess". I changed stuff on that gold area twice already and am still not happy with how it looks, but probably will just hope no one pays much attention to it when the rest is done. I do like some of the other stitches I did on this block so far.
The Christmas Tree and my black and gold bead flowers on the red/black fabric.
Snowflakes and pearls. That is a large doily on the left. It was so pretty, I don't plan to do anything to it.....I don't think.
The Christmas Tree again.....with lots of gold and silver trim. It needs a star.
I worked last night on my spider web. I made one several weeks ago and ripped it back out several days later. I like this one better, but wish it was on a better color. My spider is very talented and put a little Christmas tree in her web. I hope to add the spider when I decide how to make her. Taking photos of satin fabrics is hard....too much shine and nothing lays flat at the moment while I am working on it. The colors don't look good in the photos either. Hopefully it will smooth out better when sewn together.
I hate constructing the blocks themselves, but love doing the fancy stitches. This is one of my four blocks. None of these are done yet and even stitches you see might not be done yet. Every time I look at it, I decide to add things or change things.
A pink flower done with gathered ribbon and some fancy stitches in between.
I will probably stitch something on the red between the beads. Haven't decided about the black yet. Two of my blocks are done in stripes rather than odd shaped pieces. I love how the beads turned out on that plum colored bit. That plum was once a dress that I loved.
A bit of flowers. No idea yet for that grey area. Ideas come to me little by little. Sometimes I just start something and then I get ideas of what to add to it. Crazy stitching is very much a "make it up as you go" sort of project.
I liked the pearls on the plum so much I did another row on this red satin.....and ran out before I got to the end!
A heart with ribbon roses. I love making ribbon roses and will probably add a lot more before I get done.....some on each of the four blocks.
A wreath.
I call this area "the mess". I changed stuff on that gold area twice already and am still not happy with how it looks, but probably will just hope no one pays much attention to it when the rest is done. I do like some of the other stitches I did on this block so far.
The Christmas Tree and my black and gold bead flowers on the red/black fabric.
Snowflakes and pearls. That is a large doily on the left. It was so pretty, I don't plan to do anything to it.....I don't think.
The Christmas Tree again.....with lots of gold and silver trim. It needs a star.
I worked last night on my spider web. I made one several weeks ago and ripped it back out several days later. I like this one better, but wish it was on a better color. My spider is very talented and put a little Christmas tree in her web. I hope to add the spider when I decide how to make her. Taking photos of satin fabrics is hard....too much shine and nothing lays flat at the moment while I am working on it. The colors don't look good in the photos either. Hopefully it will smooth out better when sewn together.******************
I'm really having fun with this! I have until June to get it done for the challenge. If it takes me longer, I will just turn it in partially done.....I'm determined to do it the way I want it done. I'm expecting to do a lot of work in the border area, too.
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5 comments:
What a beautiful quilt, Mary! Such a delicate work and exquisite decorations! You know what? You're creating treasures! I will look forward to seeing the whole quilt.
Aluajala: It's very addictive if you like hand sewing! I may put the little snowflake you gave me on it....it would fit in perfectly :-)
Hi Mary...that is very, very nice...you know I can do all those stitches, ribbon roses and love working with fabric, but since my X left over 8 years nowI have struggled to regain these types of interests I had!!
It is just not these thing ,but may things I loved to do!!
Enough about me..
This surely will be beautiful quilt...keep up the good work!!
I like your spider's Christmas tree! And Mary, I don't know what you don't like about that gold area...I like what you done with it.
Grammie G: You should get your stuff out and start something. It might bring back the interest. I do think we change interests. I used to do counted cross stitch and now have no interest in it even when I see patterns I would love to have done.
Rose: It just got real messy in that gold area. I had red stitches around the crocheted flowers and took that off. I had some ribbon leaves that looked awful and I had a terrible time removing them because I had done the yellow flowers on top of them. I don't like the beads that I put in the center of the flowers and may change them. At least that is an easy change!
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