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Attached are pictures of a crazy quilt I completed at the end of
last year. I like to have a hand sewing project to work on, and
crazy quilting satisfies two loves: embroidery and quilting. The center square is built around a necktie that I made for my father when I was in Junior High School about 1968. My mom returned the tie to me when my father passed away in 2002. I have incorporated antique fabrics, laces made by both
grandmothers, and a few cross stitch samples of my own. All the
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These two items I made from scraps I acquired by going to charity
shops and purchasing all clothing items marked $1 made of silk,
satin, tapestry and velvet. By cutting the clothing apart to use the
fabrics I also discovered numerous tricks of the high end ready to
wear industry. (covered snaps, lined buttonholes inside the pockets,
unique linings and stabilizers, weighted hems etc) The tuffet
pincushion was made from the bottom of an oatmeal box, then covered
and the top was just 6 eye shaped pieces sewn together to form the
cushion. Emily Castleman |
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I thoroughly enjoy your magazine. I hope you will consider my latest
wall hanging. It's for my youngest granddaughter. I'm a self
taught quilter and enjoy all forms of quilting. I live in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Linda Brown |
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This is my first, but not last, Memory Quilt wall hanging. I made it
especially for my boss, who is also my friend, for her birthday. The
pictures are of her daughter, Olivia, who is 5 years old, but from
different times in her life so far. I have been either hanging with
her mom, working for her mom or taking care of Olivia since she was
born. I had no pattern to go by, so I just made this up and I know
it is very simple, but it was a work of love. It took me about a
week to do it, because I only had evenings to work on it. I look
forward to making many more, because I have a 3 year old
granddaughter and a 1 year old grandson and need to make one for
each of them. I and not quite ready for a crazy quilt, but looking
forward to the time when I am ready. Janine Seay |
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I am sending you photos of my vest (waistcoat) which I made of heavy
velvet, corded velvet, Winston satin and heavy Chinese satin,
donated by my cousin Jan and friend Melva. To show off the luxury
fabrics I did not embroider but simply added braids. Christine Linton |
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Crazy Quilt Bag for Catherine July 2009 Created this bag for my friend Catherine’s 75th birthday. This is constructed stronger than normal “fancy” as I used cottons, tied off my stitches frequently, reinforced my seams and used a little fabric adhesive to super secure trim so that it could be used without coming apart. The straps are hand dyed. Brittney Young |
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Less "traditional" Christmas stockings, but still full of glitz and
glam, with beads, sequins, silk ribbon embroidery, Swarovski
crystals, pearls and other pretties. My work lately has been less focused on the "encrusted" crazy quilting, and I really enjoyed working on these. I do see a couple of small gaps on them, but I wouldn't want to overdo it now would I? LOL Jo Newsham New Zealand |
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Here are pictures of a "Memory Pillow" I made for my friend Julie
Craig. She moved her shop to another location here in Wichita, Ks.
after years of being in this little old neighborhood grocery store
building. So I took a picture and embellished it for her to have a
memory of the old shop. The new shop is wonderful, by the way. I wish all of you could see it and shop there. Carol Lindberg |
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Fairy Tissue Box Cover Lavender and Sage, for a Spa. I kept the
stitches simple and with a fairy garden in mind. Firies inspired by
Lisa DuCoing's work. Sandra Pearce in OR |
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My name is Rosenshtein Ira. I want to sent for you the pictures of puzzle pieces that I did for Pat Winter's Puzzle swap. Have a nice day |
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Attached are some eye candy pictures; three Flower Fairy blocks I've
stitched and my purse from the 2009 CQI Purse Contest (second
place). Thanks, Cathy |
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Photo of my current CQ project. Using fan blocks made a Full Circle
block. Tina Marie Stevenson |
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