Hi, I always wanted to make a Victorian style crazy quilt and today I played with some blocks using Rhonda's 'Confusion' method. It works like the 'crumb' method (tute here on the board) but you make sections and join them together rather than individual pieces. I now plan to embellish them with hand embroidery, silk ribbon, beads and so on. I used lots of different fabrics, silk, velvets as well as cotton. I stabilised the flimsier ones with lightweight Vilene (iron on interfacing, think it's called Pellon in the US). I plan to make more as time goes on but wanted to show you all the beginnings! I'll post pics as embellishments are added. Thanks for looking. :-D

your blocks look awesome!!! Now I know what I'm gonna do with my scraps. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Rachel! Those photos are rubbish though! Here's some better ones, hopefully!

I have been wanting to do something like this for awhile. They are great blocks. Thanks for the inspiration.

they look terrific K I was going to write a tute awhile back and thought it was too much like the crumb method noone would be interested so I didn't follow through. But I think it is a sister to the crumb in that it has a slightly differant look tho it is the same concept. Just my version of it I call Confusion Crazy quilting. I had an article published on it in the Crazy Quilting online magazine earlier last year.

I think yours look really terrific!! Waiting now to see the embelllishments! I did embroidery stitches on the checkbook cover I made for my mom and I like that really well. It looks more like a traditional Crazy Quilt that way.

Now to see more blocks!!

Another thing I didn't add to the quick tute I did was this is a great way to use any leftover pieces alread sewn together from other projects. If you do any strip piecing where you trim off then if the cut off strip section is at least 1 1/2" you can add them to one side of your confusion piece. And add to it and go on.

Looking great.

Great looking blocks!!

I love them!!! I can't wait to see more :D :D D:

What a wonderful job you have done making these great block's!! :thumbup: I just love them. Thank you for sharing.

I like your crazy blocks. They'll be even better with embellishments. Nice!

Ohhhhh, great blocks, K!!!!!! How fun! I have zillions of scraps (give or take a few) and many pieced scraps. I will definitely try this.

neato :-)

I love those! I can't wait to see more! Get to work!

Very nice!!

Those look wonderful. So pretty. Great job.

These look great...more pics as you progress please...I love embellished work.

they always said you'd try anything once :oops: :oops:

Your blocks are very nice. I'm just now finishing a crumb quilt, and must warn everyone: they are adictive!!

Looking great!

I love them. GREAT JOB!

Very nice

Way cool Kathryn! I want to try that too. Please post the embellished photos...bet it will be fab baby!

Those blocks look great K!!!! Once you add some of your fabulous embroidery and some doodads :wink: ...well, I know I'll be blown away!!! Keep going girl! :lol:

These are wonderful. With all the embellishments they will be exquisite.

Doodads! Hadn't thought of that! Now where did I leave my doodads?! :mrgreen: :lol:

Thanks everyone, I've started the embroidery on one block - I'm even doing a bit of silk ribbon, learning from a book so it's a bit sloooow! I'll post a pic of the first embellished block once it's done. :-D

Please do write a tute, Rhonda, cause this looks like fun!

Dakotamaid I will write one as soon as I can. I did a partial on my PDA but it doesn't have step by step pictures just an overview of the idea. I was answering K3n on how my crazy quilting I call Confusion is differant from crumb piecing. She said she couldn't see the sections so I wanted to clarify. I thought about a tute several weeks ago but as it is so similar to the crumb method I didn't know if people would be interested. But in my opinion it is differant in that I use sections of already sewn together pieces and I have used parts I cut off and added them back in later. Just sort of taking the crumb method a bit farther. As soon as I have a few mins I will set a tute up with step by step pics.

Here is my PDA page the instructions are at the bottom of the page


http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-22109-133.htm

Rhonda - sorry to set you up for more work! :oops: :-D

K3n, since you are using some silks, satin and velveet, you might like to add in some fabric from men's neck ties.
I made a Crazy Quilt using my cotton stash and men's neck ties. I thought it turned our great.
You get so many different textures from using them, and sometimes you can use the wrong side, and get a whole different look from the same tie.

Actually I did an article for the Crazy quilt online magazine a year or so ago so I have pics for most of it. I was just thinking I did part of it for the article and part of it on my PDA so I just need to pull the two together and add a few pics of the sections which I didn't do in the article. So not too much work. It was on my list of tutes I was going to do for Konstantin and I got too busy to do it so it was in my mind to do anyway. I have a Bear's Paw one in progress when I can get back to it and my Sunbonnet Sue version also is in progress one of these days! LOL

Barb - I actually have a bit of yellow silk and blue silk from a tie of my DH's that I persuaded him he'd never wear again! The yellow in three of the blocks and the dark blue in two of them; You're right, they look beautiful, especially with silk ribbon embroidery over them; Unfortunately he only had one silk one - the rest are polyester and not as nice so he can keep those! :mrgreen:

Rhonda - thanks for the reassurance! :-D

Thanks Rhonda....I'm going to have to go look up your PDA . Now, if my blocks could just look as good as k's :roll: And yes k, doodads! I know you've got a drawer full of them! :wink:

Doodads in my drawers? :shock: :lol:

As much as I'm tempted.....I'm NOT going there!! :lol: :lol:

Awe, comeon Sandpat, we love to go there!!!!!!!! Doodads...it's the perfect word. Along with whatchyamacallit and thingamajig. Do they use those words in GB Kathryn?

Oh yes! And 'whodyamaflip'! :-D And 'thingybob' :-D

And in France 'machin' et 'truc'! :-D

My dad was a mechanic and his favorite word was doohicky.

Ok I posted my tutorial called Confusion

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-30920-1.htm

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!

Nope..nope..nope...NOT going there..she might have some really scary doomaflunkie in there!!! Don't ya' just love all these "technical terms"??

Thanks Rhonda! I'm going to check it out now!

Very pretty! Crazy quilts are beautiful, yours is especially so.