I started a crazy patch pillow over the weekend. I've done many in my lifetime!I use a simple method of sewing a single piece to a muslin backing and then placing other pieces over the edges of that one by one. I sew a straight seem and flip the subsequent pieces over to their right side and iron them down.
I "built" a bit of a fan out of five green pieces before applying that to the rest of the block.
Here I am, fan wrong side up, sewing it to the center piece. I think the pictures are out of order! Sorry! After this I flip the fan right side up and iron it to smooth it. When all the pieces are done and the muslin square is covered, then comes the real fun--embroidering over all the seams. Since I call myself the "queen of thread" (more thread in stashes than any woman in the country) this is always a fun challenge.This pillow is intended for the new old Victorian platform rocker that I donated to my library. It will go in our new history room. I am the "curator" or whatever you want to call it for the history room and we recently broke through a wall and doubled the size of the room to include more files, artifacts, and historical info. We painted the walls a slate blue/grey and dark cream, put an oriental rug (reds and golds) in the center of the room and will add the newly refinished and recovered Eastlake rocker for folks to use while browsing all our new collection!
This last picture is part of my stash of "silks" that I dumped on the sewing room table before starting the pillow project. Hopefully I'll have a finished pillow picture to show you soon!Blessings, LORI
