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Comment by Kathleen Connors 1 day ago

Thank you for the information, Karen. The combo of dark blue, purple and green sound like something I would like; maybe some wine or burgundy in there. There are so many kinds of quilting that I still want to try, and crazy quilting would allow me to learn the embroidery too.
Quilts can be enhanced by embroidery beautifully. Each year I make an appliqued block for a local raffle quilt; many of the appliquers use embroidery on their blocks and I'd like to be able to add more than I did this year in my Tom Sawyer quilt.
Karen, I hope to see some photos of your work on your page.
Good weekend to everyone, Kathleen

Comment by Karen L Baskins 1 day ago

I like working on quilting material better than the fancies. I have more quilting fabric of course. I use the same embroidery designs and same trim as you would for the others. I have done a dark blue, purple, anda green color and it is just beautiful. I have been thinking about doing a whole of quilt of cotton crzay quilting. Right now I am working on a sun bonnet girl which I put the embroidery, lace, rick racks, buttons and ribbons on, it is so cute. It's for my granddaughter. I have done a lot of pieces in the fancies and put it on black velvet and framed them. I going to give some away for Christmas

Comment by Kathleen Connors 1 day ago

I'm interested in Karen's comment about fabric for crazy quilting-Welcome, Karen. I only do basic embroidery but love what I see on sf and I would like to explore emboidery in 2010. Probably in the form of one crazy patch, then a few more to practice more stitches.
I am a quilter, so have lots of good quilting fabric. I've thought of doing a crazy patch of dark colors or of different kinds of navy blue, then choose contrasting threads.
Do you think this would work, Karen? I don't have satins and silks in my collection, nor wool felt which I think would be good to work on. And don't want to spend the money for a practice piece.
K.

Comment by Karen L Baskins 1 day ago

I am new to this, but enjoy reading everyones comments. I am a quilter and I most enjoy crazy quilting. Would like to know what everyone uses to make these. I use a lot of quilting material, but have use all velvet and satins, to. Has anyone ever missed the 2? It looks like most use one or the other.

Comment by Judy B on November 10, 2009 at 12:36pm

This year has been a year of very little stitching, but the fingers ae starting to get rather itchy!
Next year's project is a wedding gift for a nephew who married about four years ago! I have finally found out her favourite colour is turquoise, his is landrover green! She is a Japanese teacher, he is a policeman.
I have found fabrics with both colours in them, which were not around when they got married, so things are looking good. Design so far, centre applique panel, surrounded by squares or diamonds of Japanese and similar fabrics, and some sort of outer border.

Comment by Kathleen Connors on November 10, 2009 at 2:29am

Ok, I haven't yet left for the grocery store, but I did leave the computer for a few minutes! Thanks, Dawn, for the info about Judith Montano's book; I've heard of her. And thanks for the link to your blog. K.

Comment by Dawn Goldsmith on November 10, 2009 at 2:17am

What really helped me figure out the 'puzzle' of a crazy quilt was the DVD by Judith Baker Montano. Here's a review I wrote of her DVD http://subversivestitch.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-view-judith-baker-montano-teaches.html I like the way she starts with a central piece and works her way around it, with variations. I'm so glad I could inspire someone! Maybe one of these days I'll actually have a finished quilt to show to someone! I'm so bad at starting and never finishing!

Comment by Kathleen Connors on November 10, 2009 at 2:11am

Crazy quilting is one style that I've yet to try, tho I love it. I've never done much embroidery but recently I've gotten more interested and crazy blocks might be just the way to practice. Your post has got me thinking, Dawn.
I like working on a project over a long period of time, when I set no limits and when it is something-like your crazy quilt blocks-that I can pick up for a bit of time.
I'm going to visit your blogd--can't resist that name.
Now, I'm supposed to be getting groceries and doing errands, so I have to leave this computer!

Comment by Dawn Goldsmith on November 10, 2009 at 2:05am

Rarely do I have anything to offer when asked 'what are you working on' unless I can say "My Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles blog. :) But I actually have a Christmas wallhanging crazy quilt under construction. I'm sure that many have been made to look like this one and the idea is probably something I saw elsewhere. But it started as a need to make crazy quilt squares. I had an assortment of Christmas fabric and before I knew it I had enough 8 inch squares to make a frame. I used a solid fabric for the center and added a Christmas tree. I made a crazy quilted tree but it seemed too much craziness. :) So I fused a tree to the center and have started decorating it with embroidery stitches and beads, etc. It will be a work in progress for a long, long time. But I feel creative whenever I see it. :) Actually the reason it is a 'Christmas' wall hanging is because I had no idea what colors or fabrics to use for something non-Christmas. These fabrics certainly made it MUCH easier to choose. Red and green -- I can do that. :)

Comment by Mandy on November 10, 2009 at 1:55am

It might sound a backwards approach, but it should work really well. The ties will hold really nicely while you do the quilting.
I've just decided to handquilt a smallish quilt I completed (bar the quilting) some years back. That will make a nice evening project. I'd forgotten all about it until a friend came round this morning and suggested it. It only need some simple quilting around the shapes. Not a project I fancied machine quilting.

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