Sew Freak

Niiiiiiice!

just_the_scraps_m'am

such intricate embroidery! lovely quilting, what an heirloom you've got there!

EmiliasNana

Gorgeous and so many beautiful stitches to show off your handiwork. What an heirloom for someone.

Jane Quilter

Your stitch work is beautiful.

WisWis

Beautiful crazy quilt.

LindaMRB

The pieces were foundation-pieced, then I embroidered each square separately before jointing them into the quilt. I started with 10.5 inch squares but with fraying, the squares had to be cut to 9.75.
I tried not to embroider into the seam area since I was concerned about it getting bulky at the seams.

All the embroidery was hand done. I tried to repeat colors and patterns to give a sense of continuity to the whole thing.
The tying was done with as small a stitch as possible to avoid it taking over against the embroidery. That's partly why I did so much tying - I did not want there to be stress on too few ties.

Thank you!

LindaMRB

Someone asked when I started this quilt / how long did it take me.
I originally posted something here in February 2015. By then I had pieced a bunch of squares but had not started embroidering.
Normally I work on one quilt at a time and since we were doing a bunch of house improvements, I really could not work on a second quilt!
So maybe 18 months, start to finish?
Every evening until the 50 squares were done!
Everywhere I went, too - visiting family, the beach…

Thanks!
Linda