A New Look at Crazy Patchwork – Katharine Guerrier

Crazy Patchwork is one of the earliest recorded patterns in patchwork, popular initially for providing the opportunity to recycle randomly shaped pieces of fabric into utility quilts. From this developed a tradition of rich and decorative quilts to show off fine fabrics covered in embroidery. 
This workshop will show you how to incorporate elements of pieced patchwork into crazy blocks giving opportunities to use up pieces of unfinished projects along with scrap bag remnants. Techniques covered will be rotary cutting and quick piecing of half and quarter square triangles and flying geese teamed with improvisational construction, using  straight and  curved seams. Tips on how to select and  balance colours and composition will also be covered. 
The resulting blocks can be used in small projects such as a useful zipped pouch or built into a collection of blocks to make into a quilt.
 
Student Requirements

Usual sewing kit scissors, pins, fabric marker, unpicker, etc
Sewing machine with quarter in foot and walking foot plus instruction book
Rotary cutting set – ruler, cutter and board
One or two sheets of A4 size tracing paper
Japanese flat headed flower pins if you have them but there will be some to loan out so don’t buy any specially.
Notebook or camera

Fabrics
Bring along a selection of fabrics in contrasting colours and values fat or long quarters and smaller pieces including brights, contemporary, patterned (i.e. geometric, marbled, textured floral etc)
If you have any ready made bits of patchwork such as pinwheels, small blocks or strips of sawtooth triangles bring them along as you may be able to incorporate them into your  work. 
For the pouch a piece of low loft wadding 16 x 13 inches and a piece of lining fabric the same size.
One 12 inch zip
Sewing threads for piecing and variegated colours for quilting the pouch.
 
Looking forward to meeting you Katharine.