Learn crazy quilting, the ultimate art of hand embroidery and embellishment.
Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston's gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn which fabrics, threads, and needles to use; how to piece crazy quilt blocks; how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments; how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt; and more.
Complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches
Full-size patterns for 9 hexagonal crazy quilt blocks
25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks
About Jennifer Clouston
Jennifer Clouston started quilting after the birth of her first
child. Now that her kids have flown the nest, she keeps busy teaching, quilting, and writing. She is the author of Foolproof Crazy Quilts and Foolproof Crazy Projects, and she and her husband live in Australia.
To see more of Jennifer's work visit www.jenniferclouston.com.
Popular Patchwork
May 14
Crazy quilting can be very free-form and experimental, but there are some essential fundamental techniques which can be finicky and hard to master. Jennifer Clouston's book attempts to demystify the processes involved, and does so very successfully. An interesting potted overview of crazy quilting leads on to effective guides on materials, foundation piecing and seam treatment, and also a rather brilliant idea for storing scissors and thimbles for easy access, which we won't give away here... There's an almost forensic dissection of the constituent parts and techniques for many blocks, accompanied by some excellent, detailed photographs, that will prove extremely instructive and informative for quilters of all levels. Overall the book is a good exploration of a sometimes overlooked, but nevetheless fascinating, area of quilting.
