Crazy Quilted Heart

Set it Free

6" x 3"

This week the challenge is Crazy Quilting. Another technique challenge, although I suppose anything that would make you "Crazy" would qualify. Crazy Quilting is, traditionally, a way of showing off your luxury fabrics (such as velvets, satins, lace, etc) AND your impressive skills at embroidery stitching, both on the joining of the fabrics and feature elements. I might have dug out some fabrics that qualified, but I wasn't in the mood. In addition, I'm not into hand stitching so I used the fancy stiches on my machine.

I'm in the process of making a piece I might submit to a show, so I had these fabrics laying around. I like the idea of making a heart without any nod to traditional colors. In the spirit of crazy quilting, I added yarn and beads and the butterfly made from a thin felt. It's actually from a piece I picked up from work. Life is Good hats are sent with these felt pieces to hold a shape of the hat but customers pull them out, they end up on the floor, and I gather them up.

I used a Sizzix cutter (I have one plate to make butterflies) To cut the butterfly. I also used this felt as a foundation for the fabrics and sewing the stitches. I then added the yarn and beads (xo for love and kisses) and then stitched the entire thing to black felt. After I took the picture on my design wall, I added a pinback so I could wear it.

My husband said this reminded him of that saying in the 60's/70's that said: