Pattern: Crazy

Mary Joyce Abbott Quilt

Geelong, Victoria

The quilt is constructed out of crazy quilt blocks, machine sewn, and made from factory off cuts of velveteen in a kalei...

A Rollicking Good Laugh

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Techniques: Machine ‘quilt as you go’, rough edge machine appliqué, hand finished. (2006)

The Friendship Quilt’

NSW

“Crazy patchwork, principally pieced from cotton, silk, velvet, damask, brocade and felt with a printed cotton bac...

Broken Dreams

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Raw edge crazy patchwork appliquéd with metallic thread. Rough creased taffeta and velvet tied to net base w...

Come Dancing

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Layers of net over taffeta and lace shapes. Hand quilting and beading. Paint brush work. Materials: Remnants ...

Crazy Patchwork Cot Quilt

NSW Australia

Crazy patchwork cot quilt made from a wide variety of materials, patterned and plain. Some seams are...

Unfinished Crazy Quilt

Western Australia

Unfinished crazy patchwork quilt.

Materials are mainly silk, velvet, woven ribbons, ...

Layers of the Rain Forest

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Crazy patchwork using various textured and weights of fabric, large overstitching and left threads, mono and ...

Small Crazy Quilt

NSW

Small quilt probably made for a child's doll or for a pram. It is entirely made of white broderie a...

Crazy Silk Quilt

ACT

“Christina Brown (United Kingdom born 1815 – Australia died 1895) made this quilt. Mrs. Brown immigrated to ...

Unfinished Crazy Quilt Top

QLD

“My grandmother would tell me about her mother (my great grandmother) making quilts on her treadle machine. She ha...

Crazy Quilt

VIC

” I had not thought of these quilts as quilts until showing them to fellow quilters for the genuine fifties period...

Crazy Quilt

VIC

Crazy patchwork quilt in a variety of cotton materials. There is no padding. The backing is old fl...

Crazy Quilt

QLD

This quilt is all over crazy patchwork not done in squares. Many pieces are awkward shapes. In the...

Crazy Quilt

QLD

Jean was born 9 May 1921 at Ravensbourne, Qld, and died 13 October 1993 at Toowoomba, Qld. She suffered from polio and d...

Crazy Quilt

QLD

Small square piece of crazy patchwork in silks and taffetas. Many of the seams are oversewn with de...

Crazy Quilt

VIC

Charlotte Augusta Meara was born c.1815 and went to Van Dieman’s Land in 1836 later crossing over to Belfast (now ...

Embroidered Crazy Quilt

VIC

“Marianne was born in Armagh, Ireland in 1837, and as a young woman she and her sister accompanied their uncle to ...

The Friendship Quilt’

NSW

“…..Marion Gibson was born in Scotland, the daughter of a tailor. In 1854 she married John Gibson, a bootmak...

Crazy Quilt

SA

Pieces of patchwork include remnants from some of Ida’s favourite dresses, including pieces from the plaid dress s...

Radio Quilt

QLD Australia

The quilt was used on children’s beds and also while listening to the radio at night when it was chilly. The owner...

Crazy Quilt

VIC

Florence (Flo) Beaton (born McNabb) 1920-1996 was the daughter of Clara and Frank McNabb who selected block 46 at Carwar...

Log Cabin Quilt

SA

“The quilt was made by my paternal grandmother, Annie Sophia WINCH. Annie was born at Harrogate in the Adelaide hi...

Crazy Quilt

TAS

Minnie was born 28 August 1878 in Hobart to Joseph and Mary (born Woods) McLoughlin, their 6th child.