Originally Posted by
Geri B
besides the fact that there is no embroidery stitches over the seams, it seems that crumb is the same as crazy?? I thought crumbs were bits of fab to small to sew w/seams so were put onto a foundation and either fancy sewed all over or even covered with a piece of tulle and then sewed over using various emb. stitches....not as a full quilt, but rather a decorative thing. So what is this technique called....thanks......
The difference between Crumbs and crazies: crumbs are chain stitched. You usually start with a strip of one fabric that isn't a scrap and sew scraps to it. That unifies your eventual blocks, and it makes it easier to start sewing the scraps together. Then you cut that strip apart, and you chain sew scraps to the resulting pieces. You keep sewing until you have pieces big enough to cut squares, usually 6" squares. The other difference: crumbs are sewn together with sashing - another way of taming the wildness (or craziness) of all those scraps.