Crazy scrap quilts

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

How to Sew an Easy Crazy Quilt Block: It is ungodly hot outside, so it seemed like a pretty good day to sit in the basement and play with my sewing machine... and on days like this I tend to go for Crazy Quilt blocks, which look awesome, are super easy, and require very little actual m…

ideas on crumb quilt layouts. Scrappy crumb quilts are the perfect way to use up all those little tiny scraps.

My daughter has a friend that celebrated her birthday last week. I wanted to make her friend a pillow (I've had it in mind for months!) and even though I didn't feel like I had the time to make it, I whipped it up anyway. It's amazing how much one can get done with a little bit of focus and a deadline. A lot of these cute scraps came from my friend Mary. (Thanks Mary!!!) My daughter had picked them out and squirreled them away as her favorites. I couldn't think of a better project to use…

Go crazy with these free crazy quilt and crazy patchwork quilt patterns and projects!

Check out these fun crumb quilt ideas - let's use those little pieces of fabric you aren't sure what to do with. Crumb quilting is a delightful and resourceful technique that involves piecing together the

Get started with this beginner's guide to crumb quilting. Explore the materials, techniques, and tips for completing a beautiful quilt!

My first experiment with quilting began in the crazy arena when I saw this technique on a television show. I loved that nothing really ne...

Stars with Bowtie orphan blocks, c. 1970 In the 1970s, polyester was the fabric of our lives, but what about cotton? Quiltmakers who were active in the 1970s recall quilting cottons were not always easy to find, and there wasn't much selection. Stars, Janis Pearson, Gresham, Oregon, 1972 Four years ago, I wrote an article about the 1970s quilts for American Quilter Magazine. In the article, I asked Janis Pearson, maker of a lovely Star quilt made of calicoes, about the availability of…