Annies Crazy World

My website and most of this blog show my crazy quilting but from time to time I do do other things…One of those other things is the making of miniature and micro miniature quilts both traditional and crazy.

This weekend I have pulled the miniature box out and started making microminiature quilt brooches that I can put into the Canberra Quilters Sales Room at the Annual Quilt Exhibition in a couple of weeks time.

I am hoping that blogging them will help me achieve my goal of having 20 made for the exhibition sales room.

These 2 quilts are not crazy but some consider me crazy for making them lol

The one on the right measures 2 3/4 inches by 3 inches…made from 1/4 inch squares

The one below measures 1 5/8 in by 1 7/8 inches…

The fabric patch in this detail is a loosely woven fabric, I took advantage of how easy threads are to pull out of loosely woven fabrics and created a fringe at the edge of the patch.

I started by stitching the fabric flat about 3/4inch from the edge and covered the machine stitching with a row of chain stitch I then pulled the threads out back to the stitching line.

To finish the fringe I divided the threads into bundles and used a matching thread to stitch them onto the background.

I further embellished this patch with threads laid in a grid on top of the fabric and held in place with a small cross stitch at each intersection.