Crazy quilting
I made this tie-on pocket for my friend.
I drafted the pattern myself, based roughly on the shape of tie on pockets that I saw online. It is quite big, about 30 cm high, so plenty of room for phones and wallets.
I enjoy crazy quilting, and both me and my friend have a love for history. Crazy quilting of this style was very popular in the nineteenth century, it was a way to use up all kinds of fabric scraps. I used muslin as the base, and used all kinds of scraps. Off cuts from garment making, pieces of old clothes, small bits of quilting fabric, remnants of ribbon etc. My friend is blind, so along with different colours, I also focused heavily on different textures. There is cotton, wool, felt, metalic and silky ribbon, fleece, flannel and aida. The red beads spell her name in braille.
Crazy quilting by hand is done by appliqueing pieces of fabric onto a base fabric, after which the seams are embroidered over. Some quilters used all kinds of stitches, in this case I chose to use one single stitch. Most pieces have their edges turned under while appliqueing them, but for the fabrics that don't fray like felt and fleece I didn't bother.
I usually start in the middle of my piece with a single scrap of fabric, and work outwards from there, making up the design as I go.
The below pictures are the front and back of a crazy quilted lavender sachet I made for my grandma. Here you can see that I did choose to use different embroidery stitches for each seam.
In this case, I picked my fabric scraps to give a christmassy vibe, and went with gold embroidery to match that.
