A crazy thought for Crazy quilts

I have a Babylock Embellisher.............it is a great machine, by the way........ Does beautiful needle felting.

I wonder why I can't take a base of fabric----maybe a sheet?-------and sew on large freeform shapes in a nice design and just needle them down to the base or sheet............I could get some great curves and whatnot with different pieces, then just top stitch the ribbon, lace, or what have you over the "seams"................

Would that work?

Sure sounds easy............I like easy.

Pat in AR.

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Pat in Arkansas
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Pat, you absolutely can! I also have the Babylock Embellisher. Just practice some first. When you punch fabric to a base everything shrinks and pulls up. Some textures work better than others. Some fabrics actually shred in the embellisher.

But practice with some scraps and then just get creative. It's really fun.

Sunny

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Sunny

I can't see why that wouldn't work. My girlfriend did something similar to make a crazy quilt jacket. She took a large piece of cotton material that she would like for the lining of her jacket and sewed randomly shaped pieces of material all over it, then used her Janome 6500 to stitch various decorative stitches around the patches and added embellishments.

She layed the material face down on a table and placed her jacket pattern on the top and cut them out. When she sewed the parts together, she had a beautiful, easily made jacket.

Just remember that if you're using fairly thin materials for top and bottom, some of the stitches, like zigzags, will "tunnel" if there isn't a stiff enough stabilizer under the stitching. In a couple of places my friend placed a thin stabilizer between the two materials before stitching.

Denise

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Denise in NH

Hi Pat, Yes, you sure can. I did something like this for a journal cover. I did put a thin layer of batting under the muslin and I needlefelted several types of fabric-cottons, silk, silk velvet etc. The fabric does bunch up, but it's a neat effect. I have a picture with close ups at my picturetrails site, link under my name below, pics in the needlefelting album.

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Lisa Caryl

Hi Pat, Yes you can and make some beautiful work. If you would like to see the professional techniques using other fabrics go to

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Christopher Nejman teaches this technique and also has a book called Christopher Nejman Pillows, as well as seminars and workshops. My Embellisher sat idle for almost a year until I found him. Now i can make some unique and beautiful work. Check it out and have fun. George

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Sewsweet22

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