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In the early 1990's I developed a fascination for crazy quilts. I took a class, and bought some books, and set about trying to learn to do the embroidery that makes classic crazies so busy and full of texture. I made the one you see below, another big one for my father, and various smaller projects (a vest, hat, smaller pillow, Christmas stockings, etc.) that aren't pictured.
I will be posting photos of my dad's crazy quilt, called "This Crazy World", as soon as I can get some taken.
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"Fictional Quilt"
Completed in the spring of 1991
This was my first crazy patchwork project. I based each block on a novel I had read recently.
It has velvet, cotton, silk, lace, corduroy, buttons, beads, and even Shrinky Dinks on it. Some of the details are embroidered, others are hand painted with Liquitex acrylics.
The images below are details of each block, in the same order in which they appear on the quilt.
 Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock I read most of the Elric Saga during the year I was working on this quilt. |
 Lythande Marion Zimmer Bradley I've read so many of her books, some more than once. Lythande happened to be the one I'd read most recently. |
 Hotel Transylvania Chelsea Quinn Yarbro The first book I read in Quinn Yarbro's Saint Germain series. Another author I read and re-read. |
 Shape Changers Jennifer Roberson Book one in the The Chronicles of the Cheysuli |
 Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux |
 Year of the Unicorn Andre Norton This was the first scifi/fantasy novel I ever read. I'd first read it in Jr. High school, and had re-read it shortly before making this quilt. |
 Dracula Bram Stoker |
 The Last Herald Mage Mercedes Lackey |
 The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice The second book in Rice's vampire series. One of the only three of her books that I've really enjoyed. |
