Directions for Crazy Quilt Patchwork
A crazy quilt is an excellent way to show off your creativity. The crazy quilt is supposed to look wild. The crazy quilt was extremely popular in the 1800's, during Queen Victoria's reign. Upper class ladies knew the fine arts of needlework during this time.
Materials needed:
- 2 yards unbleached muslin
- Assortment of velvet and silk fabric scraps
- Lace
- Decorative buttons
- Thread
- Embroidery thread
- Embroidery needle
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Measure the muslin fabric and cut it into a square that is 12-by-12 inches.
- Cut out some scraps of silk and velvet fabric into random shapes that are going to fit into the muslin square that you just created. There are going to be five different fabrics that are going to be put into every muslin square.
- Attach the scraps one at a time to the muslin square with a straight stitch. Use a fourth of an inch seam on the underneath of the fabric scrap. Fold the fabric over at the seam to show off the outside of the fabric.
- Cut out the scraps of fabric to match the borders of the muslin square after you have sewn all of the other scraps on the quilt.
- Using small straight stitches sew the ribbon and lace on the quilt with thread that matches. Sew some buttons on the quilt. Embroider some decorative stitches over the scraps of fabric.'
- Keep on making more crazy squares repeating this process. Sew the squares together to make the quilt as large as you would like it to be.