How to crazy quilt

Learn the creative art of crazy quilting, also known as crazy patchwork. This page tells all about how to make a crazy quilt, including supplies and embroidery stitch tutorials.

Hello and thank you for visiting me! Today I would like to share with you the progress I have made learning how to construct a crazy quilt block. I am following the Basic Crazy Quilt Course which is organised and run by Kathy Shaw. Last time, I had learned how to choose a balanced combination of fabrics, how to piece a basic crazy quilt block and then how to hoop it up correctly following Kathy's brilliant instructions. Since then, I have learned all about various beads, charms and trims. It…

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…

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Remember there are no hard and fast rules in CQ, so your personal preferences are perfectly okay, this tutorial series is only showing how I enjoy creating blocks, there many ways to crazy quilt out there. Have fun developing your own style of Crazy Quilting! Part 1: Preparing the Foundation Part 2: Selecting Fabrics Part 3: Foundation Piecing Part 4: Continuation of Foundation Piecing Part 5: Basting and Trimming

Seam 3: Feather stitch, Straight stitch, French knot Bring the needle to the front of the fabric at the top left prong of the first feather. Be sure to leave the tiny dots alone. These are for french knots. Insert the needle into the opposite prong, and bring the needle to the back leaving a loop of thread still at the front. Now bring the needle back to the front at the bottom of the first feather, which is the bottom of the V. Pull the thread through to make the first stitch. You can…

Seam 4: Cretan stitch, lazy daisy stitch This stitch is worked similarly to blanket stitch in that the stitch is grabbed and bent by the next stitch. Bring the needle to the front at the left side of the seam. Insert the needle at the end of the bent line and back up at the bend, wrapping the thread to the back of the needle. Pull the thread through. Work the next stitch the same way. To finish the seam, bring the needle up at the bend and make a small tacking stitch over long stitch. Add…

Here is another fun craft to try :) Choose complimentary fabrics Cut a square the size you want of a base fabric ( it does not matter what you use as long as it doesn’t stretch as you will no…

Crumb Quilt VS Crazy Quilt, both patchwork techniques are made with scraps of fabric, but which one is better and easier to make? When you love to make quilts or to sew, sooner or later you will end with a basket full of scraps of fabric, small and big, and as any other quilter these