Crazy quilting...
#21
Originally Posted by Izy
K..Check out this blog...great video tutorials, it helped me get my head around techniques before we had our lessons :wink:
http://honeybeesbliss.blogspot.com/
http://honeybeesbliss.blogspot.com/
collettekay thanks for starting this thread.
K3n I love your blocks.
I have been dragging my feet to start my crazy quilt. I have brought the books, read them. I just need to get to it. I have been collecting neckties for my fabric. I need to get them out and start. I'm thinking I want to washing them first. Distress them and let them shrink. See which ones survive. :-) Does anyone have any advise? I hope mine turn out as pretty as K3n.
#25
I also used scraps of velvet from some of my daughter's baby dresses, some satiny stuff (sure it's poly) and all kinds of stuff I could forage (DH kindly donated a gold silk tie!) All the usual quilting rules just fly out of the window! Any fabrics I couldn't turn under, eg the velvet, I just covered the raw edge with the next patch or a strip of ribbon. And as for the embellishments - if ever you get fed up with buying fabric (???!) this opens up a whole new shopping prospect! I've even used bits of broken old earrings, and I got a big bag of old beads for next to nothing from a brocante (French jumble sale).
Have fun!
K x
Have fun!
K x
#26
I did a few patches with ugly fabrics and a new machine using all the fancy stitches for embellishments and the pets LOVE it! :lol:
I haven't tried a really NICE one yet, but have been collecting for YEARS! LOL :lol: This might (you notice, I said might,) be a good place to use some of my treasures. They would make a nice album cover, for the scrap bookers! :lol: Or an eyeglass cover! Or something not too large and overwhelming! Have many books on the subject, but I am spending WAAY too much time on this site to get all my quilting done. Choices, What's a gal gonna do! :?
I haven't tried a really NICE one yet, but have been collecting for YEARS! LOL :lol: This might (you notice, I said might,) be a good place to use some of my treasures. They would make a nice album cover, for the scrap bookers! :lol: Or an eyeglass cover! Or something not too large and overwhelming! Have many books on the subject, but I am spending WAAY too much time on this site to get all my quilting done. Choices, What's a gal gonna do! :?
#28
Originally Posted by k3n
I'll ask the girl at my quilt group if she minds me taking a pic of her tote bag to post - it's a really cute way to use a crazy block.
K x
K x
That would be wonderful if she will let you. Thanks
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