Graceful Embroidery has a good selection of crazy quilt blocks each with different themes. Not all of them are square though. As well as 2 stockings, 2 Dresden shaped ones there is a Christmas tree and two vintage oblong crazy quilts. This is my Romantic crazy quilt 7 with a vintage sewing theme. May I… Continue reading A re-blog: perfecting my Vintage sewer’s Crazy quilt
Tag: Crazy quilting
A Romantic Crazy Quilt project
I am often asked for ideas on how to use my embroidery designs especially my Crazy quilt blocks. My latest is available for the 260mm square hoop and I decided to create a cushion with my finished block. Before the six sections are added to this block a template stitches out on your base fabric… Continue reading A Romantic Crazy Quilt project
Guest blog: A prayer quilt for Rosie
I have had my Bernina 780 for 2 years, but have only been doing machine embroidery for one year. I was watching Hazel’s You tube channel “Graceful Embroidery” where she embroidered her Romantic Crazy Quilt blocks. I have watched that series of tutorials over and over, wishing I could do something like that. So I… Continue reading Guest blog: A prayer quilt for Rosie
Finishing my second Vintage sewing crazy quilt – a re-blog
Take a few pieces of gorgeous richly coloured dupion silk, along with some pretty shades of thread and some lace, that blend well and see how they turn out when stitched and embroidered as the new Romantic Crazy quilt with a vintage sewing theme… Over the last few weeks I have been perfecting the second vintage sewing crazy… Continue reading Finishing my second Vintage sewing crazy quilt – a re-blog
A flamboyant crazy quilt block -a re-blog
In completing my 12th Romantic Crazy quilt block I decided to be more flamboyant than usual. After I had added the four pastel shades of silk dupion along with some lace to the base fabric and completed the embroidery, I searched for lots of silk ribbon, pearls, crystals and other items to embellish my block.… Continue reading A flamboyant crazy quilt block -a re-blog
Seasonal embroidered gifts
This morning I drove through the New Forest, a national park not far from where I live. It seems that autumn has arrived with a flourish here, the leaves are turning and dancing to the ground and the ferns have changed into golden bracken. The colours all around reminded me of the Gloriana Gold collection,… Continue reading Seasonal embroidered gifts
How to resize embroidery designs?
I know we are all limited by the size of our hoops and there is nothing worse than discovering that a design you have fallen in love with is just a little too big for your hoop. My collections are created in such a way that hopefully there are plenty of options but the need… Continue reading How to resize embroidery designs?
My 2018 Crazy Quilt block challenge
Well I think the title maybe a little inaccurate and that is may take more than one year, but I set out to create a quilt using my Crazy quilt blocks in 2018. When you view them you will see that there are various sizes, themes and colour schemes. Is it possible to take them… Continue reading My 2018 Crazy Quilt block challenge
Another vintage quilt block – re-blogged
Have you checked out my second Vintage Sewing Romantic Crazy quilt block which matches my previous one, GFE-RCQ-7? To begin with I flipped the one horizontally so they will sit nicely as a pair. Most of the elements that form the block have a vintage sewing theme, including another pair of scissors shaped as a bird, a… Continue reading Another vintage quilt block – re-blogged
Embroidering an elegant bride
It is easy to just pick colours at random, stitch them out and then be unhappy with the result, just as it is commonplace to add too many colours to an embroidery design and spoil its beauty. I have been stitching out samples of my new bridal design which comes as a simple crazy quilt… Continue reading Embroidering an elegant bride