A Crazy Quilt

Jewel colours in a traditional format

I had never really been a fan of crazy patchwork until my sister, Rae, went to a class and showed me what she was creating. Her work was much finer than my one but the ability to sit at night and embellish the squares appealed so this is the result. I tried to make each square different and each square had a butterfly and a hand embroidered flower somewhere in the square.

It was fun to work with satins and velvets rather than cotton. The rich colours and reflected light brought a whole neew effect to my patchwork. The sashing is black velvet but the finished quilt with all the embellishments is quite heavy. You will note, I am still working in the traditional block format.

Finding embellishments from broken jewellery and $2 shops was also part of the fun in creating the embellishments.