Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings
Learn how to combine fabric scraps to create crazy, quilted holiday stockings with this easy-to-follow guide. To make your holiday special, you'll learn traditional methods of combining different fabric scraps to make your own Christmas stockings as well as: *Which fabrics to choose when there are so many fabrics available *Decorative stitches with illustrated guides to instruct you *A short history of patchwork design in the United States *Patterns for quilted stockings, including: Woolen Wow!, Monochrome Magic, Rachel's Homecoming, Distelfink Delight, Remembering Grandma, Purple and Plumed, and more! Crazy quilting is a unique type of patchwork where cloth is pieced together. Irregular types and shapes of cloth are pieced together, much like a collage of different colors and textures. This style was first popularized in Colonial America when women were required to be frugal and needed to use up every last scrap of fabric. They often recycled their own clothing to patch furniture coverings and curtains. As times progressed into the Victorian era, the trend became more intricate with finer silks, satin, and velvet cloths sewn into the piecework. Embroidery was added, often embellished with ribbon, lace, beads, and buttons for special effect. Clear instructions are provided here on how to embroider your stocking in a number of ways: featherstitch, French knot, blanket stitch, seed stitch, running stitch, and lazy daisy stitch. These embroidery stitches can be used on any embroidery or sewing project, making Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings a great reference book for your crafting library!

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Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings
Learn how to combine fabric scraps to create crazy, quilted holiday stockings with this easy-to-follow guide. To make your holiday special, you'll learn traditional methods of combining different fabric scraps to make your own Christmas stockings as well as: *Which fabrics to choose when there are so many fabrics available *Decorative stitches with illustrated guides to instruct you *A short history of patchwork design in the United States *Patterns for quilted stockings, including: Woolen Wow!, Monochrome Magic, Rachel's Homecoming, Distelfink Delight, Remembering Grandma, Purple and Plumed, and more! Crazy quilting is a unique type of patchwork where cloth is pieced together. Irregular types and shapes of cloth are pieced together, much like a collage of different colors and textures. This style was first popularized in Colonial America when women were required to be frugal and needed to use up every last scrap of fabric. They often recycled their own clothing to patch furniture coverings and curtains. As times progressed into the Victorian era, the trend became more intricate with finer silks, satin, and velvet cloths sewn into the piecework. Embroidery was added, often embellished with ribbon, lace, beads, and buttons for special effect. Clear instructions are provided here on how to embroider your stocking in a number of ways: featherstitch, French knot, blanket stitch, seed stitch, running stitch, and lazy daisy stitch. These embroidery stitches can be used on any embroidery or sewing project, making Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings a great reference book for your crafting library!

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Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings

Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings

by Beth Oberholtzer, Lynn Sommer
Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings

Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings

by Beth Oberholtzer, Lynn Sommer

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Learn how to combine fabric scraps to create crazy, quilted holiday stockings with this easy-to-follow guide. To make your holiday special, you'll learn traditional methods of combining different fabric scraps to make your own Christmas stockings as well as: *Which fabrics to choose when there are so many fabrics available *Decorative stitches with illustrated guides to instruct you *A short history of patchwork design in the United States *Patterns for quilted stockings, including: Woolen Wow!, Monochrome Magic, Rachel's Homecoming, Distelfink Delight, Remembering Grandma, Purple and Plumed, and more! Crazy quilting is a unique type of patchwork where cloth is pieced together. Irregular types and shapes of cloth are pieced together, much like a collage of different colors and textures. This style was first popularized in Colonial America when women were required to be frugal and needed to use up every last scrap of fabric. They often recycled their own clothing to patch furniture coverings and curtains. As times progressed into the Victorian era, the trend became more intricate with finer silks, satin, and velvet cloths sewn into the piecework. Embroidery was added, often embellished with ribbon, lace, beads, and buttons for special effect. Clear instructions are provided here on how to embroider your stocking in a number of ways: featherstitch, French knot, blanket stitch, seed stitch, running stitch, and lazy daisy stitch. These embroidery stitches can be used on any embroidery or sewing project, making Crazy Quilt Christmas Stockings a great reference book for your crafting library!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781574213607
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 07/15/2012
Series: Design Originals , #3483
Pages: 16
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Beth Oberholtzer is a graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer from Lancaster, Pa. The daughter of a Lancaster County farmer whose Mennonite ancestors crossed the Atlantic in 1727, Beth greatly admires Pennsylvania German handcrafts, vintage textiles, and works of art and utility made from repurposed materials. Although she has designed hundreds of books, this is the second she has coauthored.



Lynn Sommer grew up in a small Swiss Mennonite community in Ohio. Her family home was filled with traditional folk art motifs found in quilts, stenciled walls, painted furniture, and fraktur. She learned how to make crazy quilts from her grandmother, and then fine-tuned the style and made it her own. Sommer pieces her grazy quilts on her mother's vintage 1940s Singer Featherweight portable sewing machine.
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