feline fanatic

Completely agree with this. Many of the old (and new) crazy quilts are embellished with jewelry, beads, etc. But I don't know if you do any handwork because they are usually also embellished with fancy hand embroidery stitches.

Another idea along those same lines are the wool Penny quilts. But these also involve doing some fun hand embroidery. Look at stuff by Sue Spargo or at some of the posts that Charismah did recently like this one: Wool fruit Tree You could do something like that and put the brooches in the wool pennies.