My second finish for the first quarter of the 2016Finish-a-long. The blocks for this quilt have been hanging around for a very
long time, so glad to have it finished.
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| Modern Crazy Patch quilt |
These blocks were made in the crazy patch style, which Judith
Montano Baker teaches, stitched on a piece of muslin and either started in the
middle, or in a corner and built out from the corner, or around from the middle
block, which has more than four sides.
Four sides in the middle would give it a log cabin look. Each block is black and white with a dash of colour, I chose the primary colours plus green.
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| Crazy Quilt blocks |
Most of the fabrics in this quilt are decorator fabrics, left
over bits given to me by my friend Nancy who made wonderful pieced clothing
from them. I decided to back the quilt
with a 60 inch piece of cotton that I found at IKEA.
I chose the Gossamer pantograph by Hermione Agee, as many
Victorian crazy patches had spider’s and spider webs embroidered on them. Quilted with a black and white variegated
thread called zebra.
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| Gossamer pantograph |
It took me three trips to the fabric store to get the binding
for this quilt, on trip number one I came away with enough of the black and
white stripe which I wanted to use on the bias, however when cutting my
continuous bias binding I accidently cut it on the strait of grain, more than
half a yard cut the wrong way and not enough left over to finish the quilt, being
that I was away at a quilting day and this was my project I sewed three
quarters of the binding on by machine and hand stitched the back. The next day I was back at the store buying
more fabric (without a sample), the stripe looked a bit wider,
however I thought maybe my perception was off, I purchased another half
meter. When I got home I found it was
wider and more cream than white and black.
So the next day I returned with the quilt to find the exact match, phew
deadline looming I got it done.
Quilts connect the past with the present
and the future.
