Victorian Strawberry Ornaments Crazy Quilts

As promised, my strawberry ornaments have ripened and are ready for picking!

If you're new to my blog, these are Victorian style Crazy Quilt Strawberry Ornaments.  Small pieces of fabric are randomly pieced to a foundation fabric and then hand embroidered with fancy stitches and beadwork along with other pretty embellishments.  I hand painted vintage crocheted doilies for the strawberry tops and added new and vintage flowers along with a ribbon for hanging.

Picking Strawberries can be done here.

If anyone would prefer to make their own, I have an instructional booklet for making your own Crazy Quilt Strawberry Ornaments at Magcloud.

Lesson 4 Janes Block

My students are working on Lesson 4 of my Crazy Quilt Color and Composition Classes.  Jane R. has completed her block:

The theme for lesson 4 is Flight Of The Bumblebee.  Jane did an excellent job conveying that theme.  Notice Jane's beehive worked in beads.  And the beautiful garden in the required "curved piece"!

I'm very pleased with the work I'm seeing from my students.  I can see that all of the girls are working with their own creativity and although they find some of the techniques challenging, their skills are improving.  They're eye for color and balance is starting to come through their work!  I'm very pleased with everyone's progress!

Strawberry Ornaments Almost Ready For Picking!

My crazy quilt strawberry ornaments are almost ready for picking!  I just have to put them together:

These, like my cat dolls, never look like much until I get them sewn together!  But these will be pretty crazy quilt strawberry ornaments!

The Chicago Cubs (yes, I love baseball) play their first game at 12:30 pm so I'll be working on these during the ballgame and I'll have them ready "to pick" by tomorrow!

And next, I'm working on some Crazy Hearts for Bowl Fillers!  Mom's bowl filler fly out the etsy shop door so I thought I'd make some too! 

Crazy Quilt Online Course Student Block

I've been meaning to share Joyce's block from my Crazy Quilt Color and Composition Online Course.  This is Joyce's block from Lesson 3, Rabbit Tales:

I love Joyce's embroidered bunny!  All of the required elements are there and Joyce did a nice job of drawing attention to the bunny using the pinks.  Notice how the pink lace flowers point upwards, towards the bunny!  Good job Joyce!

Yellow Crazy Quilt Pillow

I've finished up a few of my stitched pieces and thought I'd share my Yellow Crazy Quilt pillow with you today:

I made this as a gift.  I almost hate to part with this one, it's so pretty!

I've been stitching up strawberries and will have photos of those soon!  I'm almost done with them.  I have the tops (doilies) all hand painted so once I finish up the stitching, I'll have a nice basketful of Crazy Quilt Strawberries!