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Crazy Quilt Piecing

Cindy Thury Smith, Instructor


The Crazy Quilt above is embellished with thread only.  The one shown on the Class List page uses beads and other 3-D embellishments.

FABRIC

For your first experience with crazy piecing I strongly urge students to use only 100% cotton fabrics.  In the third lesson we will talk about problems you will encounter when working with slippery, stretchy or napped fancy fabrics. To begin with you can use:

Consider personalizing your crazy patchwork by using a novelty print.

In these lessons I have suggested fabrics with a more coordinated look so you can use your resulting blocks as a finished unit for, say, a pillow. In the third lesson, we will discuss blending scraps for a more random look.

Lesson One

15” square of pre-shrunk cotton muslin for foundation layer

A large scale print fabric (you need one repeat of the pattern)

Five to eight fabrics to coordinate with the large scale print. These should be a variety of sizes including several prints and several solids. Example: a large scale floral print with blue and peach flowers with green leaves. The other fabrics could be a dark blue geometric, light blue small floral, dark blue solid, peach small geometric, peach and blue plaid, dark peach batik plus a dark green solid. Your embellishments will show up best on the solid fabrics so if you want a lot of embellishments on your completed block you’ll want to include more solids (or fabrics that read as a solid).

Lesson Two

15” square of pre-shrunk cotton muslin for foundation layer

A show stopper medium scaled print (this could be a novelty print, a beautiful Hoffman, an unusual fabric. This will be the focus fabric.)

5-8 fabrics to set off the focus fabric in varying colors and scales

18” square of pre-shrunk cotton muslin for foundation layer

5-8 beautiful fabrics that you don’t want to embellish, both prints and solids (the “too pretty to cut” ones)

One solid colored fabric that will coordinate with your above fabrics. This MUST be 100% cotton, quilters cotton weight.  You will be using this fabric folded double.  You will need at least 1/2 yard, pre-shrunk.

Decorative threads in colors that will contrast with the solid colored fabric above.  I would suggest trying one variegated cotton thread, one lightweight metallic (such as Sulky’s Sliver Metallic, Coats Glitz or Jewel by Madeira) and possibly one rayon thread.

NEEDLE for above mentioned metallic threads: 90/14 Embroidery Needle or a 90/14 Metallic Needle.

Lesson Three

You will need about 15 SCRAPS, half palm size or smaller of 100% cotton quilters cottons.  All should be pre-shrunk. (Don’t go out and buy these, just save your small scraps from Lesson One and Two.)

Spray starch.

TOOLS

OUTLINE

Lesson One

Lesson Two

Lesson Three

You may check the Class Supply Glossary in the Library for generic descriptions of products that may be sold under various names in different countries. 

If you have trouble finding your supplies locally in the US, many of our items are available online at Batiks Etcetera & Sew What Fabrics.  International students can check our Class Supply Sources.

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