What happens if you combine Slow Stitching and Victorian Crazy Quilting? Colour and Texture galore! Check out this Crazy Quilting Inspired Scroll.
I love how seeing it wrapped hints at the colour and texture within and how it is almost asking to be opened. Here is the Crazy Quilting Scroll unfurled:
The Stitched Scroll is full of colour of texture and enhanced by a variety of trims. So, how do you make a Slow Stitched piece inspired by Crazy Quilting?
Check out the full length video for all the details. And read on for a quick step-by step.
The first step is to create a fabric collage.
Pin all the pieces in place on a base and then baste them down.
The next step is to gather all kinds of trims, cording, lace and ribbons.
After pulling out the trims, begin to audition them, placing them on the border between two pieces of fabric.
Then it's time to begin sewing, couching and stitching the trims in place.
Start at one end and choose which method seems best for attaching the trim.
This cording was silky and round so it seemed like couching was the best approach. To couch the cording, you stitch over the cording without stitching into the cord.
You can choose a matching colour or a contrasting colour of thread to couch.
Continue adding trim were two fabrics meet. Here a bit of lace is being added to the border of a floral and a more solid coloured fabric.
After the trims are in place, it's time to add birds, insects or animals.
I chose a bird from my Mini Animal Template Set to add to the piece because it was the perfect size to fit onto a bit of green patchwork.
I used an erasable pen to trace the bird and then stitched the outline of the bird in white.
The next step is to embellish each patchwork section with slow stitching and hand embroidery details.
I'm beginning to add hand stitching details by outlining the pattern of the fabric.
I'm even going to add some stitching all around the little bird.
But first, as a special detail, I will stitch a spider's web just above the bird.
This is a nod to Victorian Crazy Quilting that often included a spider for good luck.
The web was created using the blanket stitch. Watch the full tutorial on how to create the spider's web.
Check out the completed scroll. This is the left section. Look how even simple stitches in varying colours add so much texture.
And here is the right side of the scroll. So many hints of floral here but again, just simple slow stitching to enhance all the colours and trims.
If this quick how-to has inspired you to make your own Crazy Quilt inspired slow stitching piece, check out the full tutorial on my YouTube channel to get all the details.
Happy Stitching!
~Jo