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Crazy Quilt Vest |
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This was my first attempt at crazy quilting. A vest on display by Creations at the Bead & Button show in
Austin, TX a few years ago inspired me to take a try at crazy quilting. The embellishments are little things I collected here and there. |
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Crazy Quilt Dress |
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This crazy quilt dress is modeled by me! I cut up a crazy quilt border print and crazy quilted it
together with a blue crinkle for the dress bodice and pockets. The sleeves are the border print uncut. I did decorative stitches on all the crazy quilt seams by machine. I also added a few
pieces of velveteen and satin in the crazy quilt pieces. On the velveteen pieces I did silk ribbon embroidery by hand. The picture was taken by my friend Gloria in her fabric shop. The
fabric for the dress is from her shop "The Fabric Shop". |
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Something Fishy Vest |
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made this vest for my daughter a few years ago. She picked out 2 glass fish beads at the Bead & Button show in Austin, TX. She was about 10 years old and had drawn the pictures of the appliqued fish. I thought they were very good and used them for patterns. All the beads around the shell appliques are sewn on by hand. There is a sea green mesh fabric which covers the whole front of the vest to give it a special look all its own. The center and far right pictures show closeups of the vest bottom
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Crazy Quilt Panel Vest |
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This is a partial view of the upper back crazy quilt panel of my Panel Vest by Judy Bishop. I recently experimented
with Procion Dyes and came out with some lovely colors on pieces of lace, trim, old table scarves, and old crochet doilies. I couldn't resist adding several pieces of lace and doilies right over my
fabrics and tacking them down with seed beads and by sewing into the seams. Here you can see the teal large |
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wedding lace and the brownish crocheted doilies at the top corners that will be the shoulders. The three ribbon flowers were hand dyed by
putting the flowers upside down in a dish of dye. The pictures below show a closeup of the silk wired ribbon roses on the back of my vest. Other pictures also show parts of the back of the vest. |
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Princess Diana Crazy Quilt Blocks |
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Here are two of my Princess Diana blocks that have not yet been embellished. I am going to send one of them in the
Round Robin Block on the Crazy Quilt Mailing List. |
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The embellished block recently came back from the Round Robin Block Swap, and these are some closeups of the embellishments that were
done on my block. |
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