Crazy Quilt
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THANKS JANIE : FOUND A BOOK FOR THE RIBBON EMBRODERY SO AN STICHING UP A STORM. I HAVE UNTIL JUNE WHEN THE GUILD IS MEETING FOR A RETREAT TO PUT THE BLOCKS TOGETHER, I THINK IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE THAT LONG TO FILL IN ALL THE LINES. LOL. I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER MAKE A BED SIZE QUILT. ( WON'T LIVE THAT LONG HA!)
#23
Mae, be of good cheer, everyone that does a crazy quilt says that but Judith Montano and Marsha Micheler have finished dozens....maybe they didn't have spouses, kids or pets, who knows. Please post your blocks as you finish each one. We all need a little fresh inspiration from time to time and you just may be mine....Janie
#26
Originally Posted by PatriceJ
still need somebody to teach me how to cure my obsession with making sure all the colors "go together", though.
ironic, ain't it? i'm too crazy to be able to make a crazy quilt.
:shock:
Step 1.) Drum into your head... "It's my quilt and I don't care if you don't like the colors."
Step 2.) Never ask anyone... "Do these go together?" They might actually know.
Step 3.) I like that Stack and Whack concept. Because you are so LB'ed, put all your dissimilar colors in the stack and rotate through them Mathematically. You get no choice as to what goes with what that way after you have set up the stack. Make more than one stack at a time with different fabrics. Halfway through, pull half the fabric squares off one stack (mathematically) and replace them with the fabric squares from the other stack. Keep cutting.
Step 5.) If it seems right... "Don't use that combination."
There is no step 4.
tim in san jose
#29
Originally Posted by Ruth Camp
This is part of my first 12 inch square I want to add a little more to it. I'm not happy with it. Next I will try one color.
At 12 inches will make a nice crazy purse :roll:
At 12 inches will make a nice crazy purse :roll:
The lady who did it folded a sheet of newspaper into a triangle (once) and measured both sides to be sure they were 12 and 1/2 inches each. The extra 1/2 inch was the seam allowance. and then she cut the piece on the other two sides to make her square. She said that newspaper was alwyas on the square and there was no fear of "warped" pieces that way.
The next step was to lay a piece of fabric on the corner and add another random piece to it. She called it strip piecing, but it was a far cry from what the books call strip piecing. Her pieces eventually made a few strips, but mostly they were like the ones you show in your photograph.
The advantage I saw to her method was that the piecing went faster and the seams were very secure. She put each new piece onto the next one by laying it upside down where she wanted them to join. She stitched across to make a seam and then flipped the new piece down over the seam and pressed it. Then she was ready for another new strip or piece. She did not do the hand embroidery, but she did lap quilt each square before she put the whole quilt together. It really did look nice.
BTW, this is my first time posting, so forgive my mistakes on what/how to do it. I am a grandmother (GramMER) to 15 and need to get the show on the road if I am to make each of them a quilt before my time comes. :roll:
GramMER
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