My grandma has an antique quilt made by one of her great great aunt's when the lady was a girl in the mid-late 1800s. It's interesting that historians believe the craze was started because of a japanese piece of artwork. I didn't know that! How cool! Personally, I think the artform must have been around before the craze, but I had no idea it was made popular in that manner. :) One thing I was told by my grandma was that crazy quilting became a bit of a necessary artform both In the Victorian age and later again during the depression because for many people fabric was precious and you didn't want to waste one single piece of it; because of this, women would save every scrap of fabric they could from when they made their clothes and other household accessories. They would then sew these tiny scraps of fabric (that couldn't be used for anything else) into larger patchwork pieces that they could turn into blankets or other accessories. (I found an antique victorian crazy patch teddy bear at a local antique store and bought it for my grandma. 🙂 But it is beautiful proof in my mind that crazy-patch wasn't just used for blankets). The embroidery was then added partially to show off the women's needle work, and partially to hide any unevenness or mistakes in the seams. It could also be used to secure more delicate older fabrics to a back so that the delicate patch would last longer in the rest of the piece. 😊 My grandma thought that maybe the artform was started as a necessity and probably denoted poverty (since if you had to save all of your scrap fabric to make something, that meant you must not have had enough money to just go buy more fabric) Until it's popularity increased so drastically in the late Victorian age. She is not a historian... Simply a very good seamstress who loves to crazy-patch. But she DID do some minor research on the subject in her younger years and met with people from older generations than hers to learn more about its history. 🙂
@johnzurfluh50313 ай бұрын
Very nice sort of abstract expressionism fabrics love it
@deemac6142 Жыл бұрын
Love this art... in my eyes .. great ideas I love it. Ty
@janharvey1024 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Loved every minute of this wonderful video. Thank you.
@annemann91205 жыл бұрын
Judith is the mistress of crazy quilting. This is a fabulous video.
@joyceschuster2959 Жыл бұрын
That was perfect to show us loved it all 😅
@patwilcox8155 Жыл бұрын
Love this!❤
@lindacrawford50292 жыл бұрын
Always loved crazy quilting! Thanks for the book. Your video additionally instructs nicely how to do it. Over the years I’ve saved some fabrics and know colors that my family like. I’ll put that to good use! 😊
@maryannmazur81802 жыл бұрын
Hello my name is Mary Ann and I'm from South Jersey I am a quilter I always thought that a crazy quilt was made like a regular quilt I am amazed at your work and I am new at cross stitch the stitching that you did is named in the cross stitch pattern I found that very interesting my love is quilting but I'm going to learn something new and I thank you for sharing
@hummerklein49022 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all your design It’s lovely
@themamma3413 жыл бұрын
What a fabulous story and wonderful ideas!
@edbalko30823 жыл бұрын
WOW…what a WONDERFUL TREET to actually see You…I can’t even tell You how many of Your AMAZING BOOKS that I have and LOVE…YOUR WORK and ART Are TRULY STUNNING….THANK YOU fro all Your AMAZING TEACHING and WORK…
@sheilaisom194 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@brookefreeman5934 жыл бұрын
You are so sophisticated and articulate. Thank you for describing the origins of crazy quilting. 😊
@FamilyTime_TV4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Brooke Freeman :-)
@gretalovina96743 жыл бұрын
excellent instructions! thank you so much for doing a fantastic job in narrating in detail
@LyndaPogue-w4e Жыл бұрын
Beautiful work.
@paniAlla_ Жыл бұрын
Дуже гарні роботи, елегантні, милі! Дивилася з великим задоволенням, вельми вдячна!
@tommiekay28784 жыл бұрын
Love your work, I have several of your books, one my aunt, Jean Fox from San Benito, Texas is in with some of her beautifully embellished articles. She taught me and my mother this beautiful craft.
@naseemahamad88573 жыл бұрын
Amazing tutorial thanks for sharing I love it so much
@zoodasilva4 жыл бұрын
Yes!!! Crazy Quilting is awesome!! Quilt to the EXTREME!!
@donnabailey9474 жыл бұрын
You are fabulous. I’ve learned of a few mistakes I have made from this video. Thank you so much. I’m going to order your books for more help. Again, thanks so much.
@jenniferwalsh44335 жыл бұрын
Hello Judith I'm finally having a go at my first patch tonight going back and forth to your video after being inspired by a lady named Merle introduced me to crazy patch and yourself a few months ago. Pretty sure she attended one of you workshops or classes a very long time ago. Beautiful work thanks for explaining things simply .
@janholman61925 жыл бұрын
Oh, I have your book, "Elegant Stitches". Am having a great time working this quilt. A wall sized CQ in burgundies. I'm not doing all the fancy stitches like the book shows, but many of your stitches are being used. Thank you for showing me how!
@AngelaRodhas4 жыл бұрын
I loved it! I would use it though as a cover for photo album, book, note book but not a frame.
@barbarakoeppe26234 жыл бұрын
I have neen doing crazy quilting but yours are stunning
@marybarratt26495 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a great introduction to crazy quilting. Your work is lovely and it is so good of you to share your expertise with us. I think that following this tutorial I will be able to put together a piece and embellish it. The stitchwork, materials and colour theme works so well and I just love everything that you have talked about and shown us today. A pleasure to watch and I imagine this could become addictive. Again, thank you and I have subbed. x
@FamilyTime_TV5 жыл бұрын
Hi Mary. Since 1985, we've established a large distribution catalog of content. I believe I have a few more pieces like this I could upload. I will take a look and upload them ASAP. Thanks for watching!
@claudiaforrest66694 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@heidimiller6424 жыл бұрын
At Video minute 34:52 , Judith cuts a peice of lace in half. I watched a KZbin on lace-making about a month ago. A handmade piece of lace like this would have sold for about $500.00, according to the BBC Edwardian era KZbin I watched.
@ADHDAquatics4 жыл бұрын
How do you know what type of lace it was?
@heidimiller6424 жыл бұрын
@@ADHDAquatics I don't. I just watched a BBC Edwardian era history video about lace making. Lace-makers trained for years to learn their craft. It took many hours of labor to make one piece. They were like jewelry. Even if this was a machine-made lace, it would still be a terrible waste of money to cut it in half. It was without blemish. Crazy quilts were a way to use up left-over scraps of fabric and laces that had stains, rips or tears in them that made them otherwise unusable. You would only cut a piece of lace if it were destroyed to the point that you couldn't use it for it's original purpose. I just noticed that Judith was cutting up perfect fabric and lace that could have been put to better use. I like Judith's work. I just thought she was being wastefull.
I like very much your explanations, but for me crazy patch is difficult. I don't arrive to join fabric when I have a triangle. When I superimpose 2 fabrics there is always a bord to difficult to cover.
@LyndaPogue-w4e Жыл бұрын
I agree, it seems that the artform started out as necessity. In the 1800s especially.
@carolvenables39702 ай бұрын
More please
@donnabailey9474 жыл бұрын
I waited to see the coffee stained Dailey but it didn’t appear. Why?
@palmtrees41485 жыл бұрын
FIRST!!!
@FamilyTime_TV5 жыл бұрын
Quick like lightning she is!
@palmtrees41485 жыл бұрын
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@ruthgreen74243 жыл бұрын
I'm looking for your books but can't find im in Australia so can you send me details of what there called plus your name
@valerielewis78454 жыл бұрын
How can I see what you are doing with the subtitles in the way? What a pity!
@queva3062 Жыл бұрын
Mine is not too crazy quilt -- smtg simple to my eyes😂😂
@wendybuchanan44144 жыл бұрын
you really need to film your embroidery stitches from your perspective so that when we are trying to learn them we can see them as you make them and we can mimic exactly your moves and your stitches.
@brettyboyHD5 жыл бұрын
Everything in this video is the same color scheme. Shes got her color wheel stuck
@conniebeane61645 жыл бұрын
Don't get hung up on color. She likes the cool side of the color wheel. So what? Do your own thing and use reds and oranges and yellows, if those are what you like. I've done monochromatic pieces and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink pieces, and they're all interesting.
@janholman61925 жыл бұрын
It's her choice, her art, I would choose the same colors myself! She might make them in other colors as gifts, but if it's for her, she will choose the colors she likes most.