Crazy Patchwork

Yesterday we spent most of the day on sewing projects, some new, some that have been in the making over a course of weeks.

Crazy Patchwork, by A, 13cm x 19cm

In the crazy patchwork a mix of cottons and sparkly fabrics have been combined and sewn down with tacking cotton onto the pink background. In the centre is one of my 'samples' from a beading workshop. Below left a children's fairy print, above which is a paisley chiffon. Next, a woven orange-yellow glitzy striped fabric, then a blue sheer fabric encrusted with glass beads, followed by two sequinned nets. A has started to embellish the sequinned net fabrics using contrasting embroidery cottons, ric-rac, and beads.

The interesting thing here is A's fearlessness of putting together fabrics that clearly don't 'match', and without all the usual concerns about difficulty of sewing technique on a small scale. She is very patient with this work and I've noticed that she's beginning to work for more prolonged lengths of time, becoming more absorbed in the task as it develops.