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Great find at the quilt show!

I bought a grab bag for $20. Got it home and I have about 30 crazy quilt blocks! No really fancy fabric, just cotton, but I really like them. They are well made and will work terrific as I learn to embellish. They are about 12 inches long and about 5 1/2 inches wide.

My friend, who has never crazy quilted in her life informs me that I have to sew all the blocks together and then start embellishing. I want to be able to take these blocks with me when I'm riding in the car and waiting at appointments and work on them. They are the perfect portability size.

I also thought that it would be neat to have a workshop and hand these blocks out to participants so we could all learn embellishing together. Maybe do a donation, fund raising type quilt with them.

What do you think? Can I just start embellishing and THEN sew them together?

Cindy

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teleflora
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I'm not a crazy quilter... but I don't see why you couldn't embellish the inside of the block seams... then when you join them you'd have all the block joining seams to embellish.

Anyways -- who said there were rules for this thing we do?

Kate in MI

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Kate G.

I think I might need to use some iron-on interfacing or use some wonder under and back the blocks with muslin. The blocks appear to be paper pieced (at least they used paper as a stabilizer) so when I tear that off, I'm going to have some bias edges that I won't want to stretch.

I don't fancy tearing paper after I embroider.

Cindy

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teleflora

As usual! I would most definitely do a little practice experiment with this. I know you would know to avoid the seam allowances when putting on your embellishments, but, if they are in any way 'fat', they might interfere with the outside of the foot (mine are wide) - or even the top of the machine bed? Just have a go and see what you can get away with. You could, of course, sew them together by hand afterwards. . In message , teleflora writes

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Patti

You could certainly do all the embroidery you want, it would lie flat enough not to be in the way when it comes time to put it all together. I find it difficult to sew 2 blocks together if there's a lot of 3-D stuff that keeps them from lying flat. But if you use narrow sashing to join the blocks (might be a good idea anyway if they are several layers thick), then even that would not be a major problem. Just keep away from the seam allowance. Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

Oh, Roberta, what a great idea!

Cindy

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teleflora

You could machine stitch around the edge of each of the blocks, in the seam allowance, before tearing off the paper. That would stabilize the bias edges.

Julia > I think I might need to use some iron-on interfacing or use some wonder

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Julia in MN

Yeah, I was thinking about stay stitching the edges, I could even serge them. I wonder if I need some stabilizing for the embroidery? This is not heavy fabric so it may need something.

Cindy

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teleflora

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Pat in Virginia

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