Crazy Quilting Dazzling Diamonds: 27 Embroidered & Embellished Blocks, 56 Full-Size Seam Designs

by Kathy Seaman Shaw

Overview

Gather your fabrics… start your machines! The Dazzling Diamonds crazy-quilt pattern is ready for your creative interpretation. One block at a time, you’ll construct twenty-seven crazy-quilting diamonds on foundation-piecing templates. With photos and step-by-step instructions, you’ll have fun embroidering the seams and adding embellishments to your unique masterwork! This pattern comes complete with an embroidery stitch guide and full-size pattern pieces, plus examples of the finished quilt in two colorways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617459016
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	04/25/2020
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Kathy Seaman Shaw has always shared her knowledge of the needle arts by teaching basic skills in sewing, crocheting, cross-stitch, ribbon embroidery, beading, jewelry making, and traditional quilting at local guilds. This is her fifth book on crazy quilting techniques. She resides in Piedmont, Alabama. shawkl.com

Table of Contents

Introduction General Instructions Types of Supplies Organization Creating the Quilt Blocks Supplies Block Construction Embellishing Blocks Fiber Embroidery Instructions Base Embroidery Stitches Combination Embroidery Stitches Beginning and Ending Embroidery Seams Grouping Stitches Together Silk Ribbon Embroidery InstructionsThreading Needles Beginning Ribbon Work Ending Ribbon Work Silk Ribbon Embroidery Stitches Silk Ribbon Flowers Attaching Beads and Baubles Choosing Beads and Baubles Securing Beads Correctly Full Size Block Patterns for Tracing Gallery of Block Designs & Photos Quilt Assembly and Finishing Instructions Online Sources About the Author

Editorial Reviews

01/20/2020

Quilting teacher Shaw (Stunning Stitches for Crazy Quilts) shares her knowledge of needle arts with this crafty little book of “dazzling diamonds.” Her crazy quilts are modern: they still comprise scraps seamed together on a foundation, then embellished with embroidery, but she leaves the velvet and satin of vintage crazy quilts behind. “It is perfectly acceptable to create a modern crazy quilt from cotton fabrics,” she reminds quilters. She teaches how to complete one quilt in either spring or autumn colors in a geometric pattern of diamonds. They lie atop a foundation to support the significant weight of stitches embroidered with perle thread. Her quilt is embellished with beads, buttons, and baubles, but not with photos, lace, or trimming. Twenty-seven blocks are further separated into triangles, embellished at the seams with silk ribbon–embroidery flowers as well as beading. Shaw’s instructions are exact—she provides color diagrams that detail the silk ribbon embroidery and beading, and she indicates what embroidery stitches, or size of ribbon or beads she used in the block-by-block embroidery guides. This appealing guide makes crazy quilting for the more experienced quilter and embroiderer seem entirely doable. (Apr.)

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