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    This is Annie Whitsed's Crazy World a world where I stitch the joys and chaos of life into beautifull crazy quilts. email annie@loopylace.com
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Crazy Quilt Embellishment Sampler March 14th, 2005

I have started converting the old fabric book pages into A4 sized Journal Quilts…The first task was to unpick the couple that I had stitched back to back into pages, should have been a simple task but I had stitched them securely and double stitched them just to make sure.

The first Page that I have converted is a sampler I made to record the embellishments that I had designed or adapted for my crazy quilts……I stitched it in 1990 and coincidentally I have found another embellishment sampler that I stitched about 10 years later, I have put it onto the embellishment page of my website.

Fabric Journal page

The Button at centre top was a covered button that I stitched beads onto.

The Fan is a piece of wide satin bias binding for the edges of blankets….The first one happened when I picked a short piece of the binding up off the floor and started fiddling with it, realized that I had concentinaed it into a fan shape so a grabbed a needle and stitched it onto a Block….Wide Ribbons and braids and some laces also make up into lovely Fans.

Herrinbone BasketThe Basket on the left side of the sampler and this one are closed herringbone stitch with slightly longer stitches on the top to give the basket shape….I well remember the night I designed these baskets, it was the classic sit bolt upright in bed with the idea in my head, I hadn’t even been thinking about baskets….I had figured out that I could make little bows with 2 detached chains, a French knot and 2 straight stitches and I had gone to bed thinking of ways that I could use them, one of the thoughts was on the handle of a basket and with the thought I just knew how to embroider the basket, it had to be embroidery thread because silk ribbon was not available in 1987….I had to get up and find pencil and paper and draw it before I was able to go to sleep….

detached chaing and colonial knot bow

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