Crazy Quilts: History*Techniques*Embroidery Motifs - Hardcover

This book covers in depth the history of the crazy quilt in America from it's origins to its heyday and modern-day 'crazies'. The second part of the book covers how to make a crazy quilt form the planning stage; it includes three construction methods, key embroidery stitches and embellishment, and antique embroidery motifs. The text is accompanied by many photographs of, for eaxmple, quilts, vintage adverts and postcards. --The Quilter March 2008

The Crazy Quilt skyrocketed to fame in the Victorian age and quickly became a national obsession. Embroidered on every seam, made up of luxurious fabrics and intriguing images, it was the epitome of elegance. Using silks, velvets, brocades, satins, elaborate emroidery motifs, and intricate decorative stiches, the opulance of crazy quilt is a tribute to its beauty as well as it to the dedication and care of the quilter. Crazy Quilts is a celebration of the Crazy quilt by a distinguished quilting teacher, appraiser, and restorer, traces the bewitching history of these quilts from their earliest origins to the present day. Author Cindy Brick unravels for the first time in quilting literature the fascinating history and development from colonial times through the Civil War, the Victorian era, and the emergence of modern Crazies. She also decodes the meaning of the curious images stiched into these quilts, from flowers to fans and farm animals. Along with this history, the book includes a detailed step-by-step section on planning, piecing, and embroidering or embellishing a Crazy quilt, plus an appendix of vintage embroidery patterns. This exquisitly illustrated book is the definative resource for anyone who has made or admired this unique quilt style. --The Quilters Web

Those first two words grabbed me over a month ago, and I've not been able to shelve the book yet. it's a fascinating read! Written by a quilt historian and loded with gorfeour colour photos, this book is very dificult to put down. It's very big on history and the motifs are covered by the lovely pictures. techniques are briefly touched because so many books out there cover the subject. Cindy brick's Light-Speed Crazy technique works and her Road warrior (or Assassin) Embellishment Technique craked me up! I higly recommend this beautifull book to any and all who have even a passing interest in crazy quilts. it certainly stole my heart. --white works dot com

The definative resource for anyone who has ever made or admired this unique quilt style --Sew Today;This book will be a valuable resource --Popular Patchwork USA;Crazy quilts are embroidered on every seam, made form luxurious fabrics, contain intriguing images, and first became an obsession during the Victorian age when they were the epitome of elegance. Cindy traces their history, development and influences from colonial times throguh the Civil war, the Victorain era, Japanese design and the emergence of medern crazies. She also decodes the meaning of the curious images stiched into these quilts. In addittion to historical content there is a detailed step-by-step section on planning, piecing and embroidering or embellishing a Crazy quilt, plus an appendix of vintage embroidery patterns. Well illustrated, it is the definative resource for anyone whao has ever made or admired this unique quilt stye --Sew Today;The crazy quilt skyrocketed to fame in the Victorian era and quickly beacme a national obsession. embrodery covers every seam and they are usually made from luxurious fabrics, silks, brocades and velvet. Authro Cindy brick spends the first 100 pages detailing the history of crazy quilting; this includes fantastic phototgraphs of historic examples right up to modern crazy quilts. The altter part of the book is --Popular Patchwork UK

This beautifully produced book is a complete guide to crazy quilting with history, techniques, embroidery and motifs used in the craft that rocketed to fame in the Victorian era. Colour photographs chart the history of the crazy quilt and there are also many modern examples of the craft in this book. The embroidery motifs are illustrated in black and white and are mainly line drawings. This is an informative 160 page book. --Karen Platt's Art and Craft book review

The crazy quilt skyrocketed to fame in the Victorian era and quickly beacme a national obsession. embrodery covers every seam and they are usually made from luxurious fabrics, silks, brocades and velvet. Authro Cindy brick spends the first 100 pages detailing the history of crazy quilting; this includes fantastic phototgraphs of historic examples right up to modern crazy quilts. The altter part of the book is entitled How To Make a Crazy quilt, and starts with a series of questions such as do I want to wash this quilt and how much time do I have? The answeres to the questions help you to decide the style of crazy quilt to make. There are three different construction methods provided for you to experiment with. The book ends with an appendix of embroidery designs for you to copy. If you love the style of crazy quilts, this book will be a valuable resource. --Popular Patchwork UK

Cindy Brick is an editor, designer, and writer who travels the world teaching about quilting and quilt history. A former editor for Quilter’s Newsletter, she is also an American Quilter’s Society–certified textiles appraiser and professional quilt restorer. She has written more than a hundred magazine articles and four books, including Hanky-Panky Crazy Quilts, The Stitcher’s Language of Flowers, and the Fabric Dating Kit. She is the “Old Things Considered” columnist for McCall’s Vintage Quilts and a frequent contributor to other magazines, newsletters, and online listservs.

            Cindy lives and works in Castle Rock, Colorado. For more on information, visit Cindy’s company, Brickworks, at www.cindybrick.com or www.classygirlquilts.com.