for Anna: Love and Warm Like Crazy

Anna wanted a crazy quilt, but she wanted it to LOOK like something made in the 1970's -  with giant pieces, and vintage 1950's fabric.  We found some fabric in a vintage shop, I found a bag of hand crochet doilies in an antique mall, and we filled in with contemporary quilting and other fabric (including velvet and corduroy.  I think this is about 80"x80"  - completed in 2011

Here are some closeups of some blocks: 

This has a large bit of doily inserted, the way it was done in the 1970's, and done here so i could cut off some damaged bits

 

This next one also has some added colored embroidery:

 

This one includes a small embroidered bit from my collection, on black velvet.  I would have used more 'crazy' embroidery between the patches, but Anna wanted this sparse style:

 

This next one highlights this vintage fabric

 

Here's the label on the back: 

 and Neil peeking out from behind the quilt:

 

And here it is, on her bed in her Missouri attic apartment

(although it has moved many times since then!) 

Keeping Anna warm, wherever she may roam.

Peace.