SHARDS ( 24 inches by 38 inches, 2003 ) is a small piece using many small leftovers of hand dyed wool sewn into varying sizes of crazy pieced blocks then set together using black fulled wool. I wanted the emphasis to be on the colored wool, not the stitching, so the pieces are joined with a plain zigzag stitch in invisible threadThis piece has no batting in it although it is invisibly quilted.  I've used a jazzy stripe to bind it.

One of the things that I really like about using fulled wool in quiltmaking is that the fabric is so sturdy.  For a crazy quilter, this means you can EMBELLISH as much as you want and the piece retains its shape. 

When I started experimenting with this particular fabric I wanted to find out if it was easy/horrible to do hand work on (most crazy piecers love the hand work; I'm an oddity that I like machine embellishing) so I sent blocks out to about a dozen CQ artists.  As you will see in the samples on the next few pages, they had a lot of fun working with this fabric.

To see some more embellished crazy pieced fulled wool blocks:

Click here to see Valeri Bennett's beautiful block done in pinks and greens and exquisite embroidery.

Click here to see Martha Green's eyepopping black, teal and fuschia embellished block. This is a slow loading image because Martha really loads on the embellishments!

Click here to see Allie Aller's landscape fulled wool block.

Click here to see Dee Stark's all pastels embellished block.  

Click here to see LouAnne Sassone’s gorgeously embellished block made from hand dyed wools and recycled mens jackets.