Foolproof Crazy Quilting: Visual Guide25 Stitch Maps 100+ Embroidery Em [Paperback]

Learn crazy quilting, the ultimate art of hand embroidery and embellishment

Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston's gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn which fabrics, threads, and needles to use; how to piece crazy quilt blocks; how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments; how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt; and more.Jenny Clouston lives on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. She shares her home with her husband Vaughn, two small white dogs, George and Gemsquash, and Charlotte, the cat. Her two adult children, Gareth and Ainslie, have recently flown the nest.Jennifer Clouston has taken the traditions of Crazy Quilting and fused them with her South African influences to create her own unique style of Crazy Quilting. These days Crazy Quilting has taken on a more contempo- rary look with new fabrics, threads, ribbons and beads. This book is a visual guide featuring 25 stitch maps and 100+ embroidery and embellishment stitches. Jennifer guides you through the process of creating a Crazy Hexa- gon block. There are 25 Hexagon blocks total and each one offers different stitches, ribbon embroidery, beading and other embellishments. Each Hexagon is a lesson onto itself. Each and every stitch is demonstrated in the “Ba- sic Embroidery Stitch” section with a photograph as well as a drawing. There are also sections on “Silk Ribbon Stitches”, “Beading Instructions”, “Insects, Webs, and Miscellaneous Embroidery”, “Embellishment Instructions,” and finishing and joining the hexagons. There are also full size patterns to create 9 hexagonal crazy quilt blocks...you need these before you can get on with all the lovely stitching.Clouston, an Australian quilt teacher who grew up in South Africa, presents her fabulous crazl–