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my name is Agnes from Germany. I will send 2 photos from my last project for my daughter Mandy. It ist cover for a paper issue box. She loves light blue colors. At first I cut up an old box to get a pattern. Then I transfered the pattern to a stiff fleece and created a block that would also match the pattern. This "Crazy-Block" I then sewed onto the fleece. The next step was to decorate the "Crazy-Block" with 1.5 inch hexagons and a lace collar. My last step was to decorate it with Crazystitches and sewing the block to a cover together, so that it fits onto the box. I hope that the other readers of your wounderful magazine find in this small projekt a suggestion. Best regards Agnes Duennhaupt

I would like to submit a picture of the gift (cushion cover) I made my niece and her new husband as a part of their wedding gift. Its of my parents (her Grandparents) on their wedding day 1942. Silk ribbon work, gold threads, and the lace I dyed with tea to get the right colour.

I have just finished two more small purses. The small red and black one was crazy patched but I did all the embroidery on my sewing machine then added small seed beads to finish it off. The other one was handed embroidered and I puffed up the boot and some of the rose by adding dacron fill.

Here is my first submission for the Reader’s Showcase. It’s a CQ block made for a Charity Quilt; the embellishment was made on a 10’ square. I used several techniques to embellish it. The theme was White – beige and Crème. Elisabeth Zólomy from Belgium

My name is Lynette and I live in Australia where at the moment knitting with beads is very popular, These are some of my newest design, Lynette Hendriks

Thought I would share this picture I just scanned of my latest project for the readers showcase. It is a picture of a friends house near the beach I printed onto fabric and them pieced a cq border around it. It will be put in a shadow box barnwood frame and given to them as a gift.

Crazy quilted pillow I made for a friend. The pillow was made from a kit from Luna C Designs to which I added my own hand painted lace and hand dyed silk ribbons, porcelain basket made by Christina Pirnie.2 3 4

After a long and hot summer, finally I'm back to the stitching. I just completed a 12x12" block with the fall colors and it turned to a purse at the end. I would like to submit some photos of my block to show its improvement and its final for your Readers Showcase. Also, I would like to have your criticism about my first purse trial. Looking forward to read new issue of the CQMagOnline soon.

Best wishes from Istanbul, Rengin Yazitas

This is a crazy quilted dog dress that I designed and made myself. The dog is a stuffed one. It will be auctioned off at a festival later this month.

CQ Quilt: It really is beautiful! It took me 7 months to make it and all the thread I used is silk thread. All embroidery work was done by hand.

These are two of the blocks on the cq quilt. A block that's on the quilt.

This is my English Vintage block that I did. These are the colors of my bedroom.

This is a CQ Pillow that I did in a private swap.

This is a block that I did for fun.

I chose a lake water theme for my hussif. Lake flora and fauna was more of a challenge than an ocean water theme, but cat tails, ferns, water lily's, etc..... were a natural for embellishment on this light blue dupioni silk hussif. The Mr and Mrs Fish on the front are an ebay silk find and the laces were all hand dyed by a friend, Kymm Gosset Welle of Medford, Mass. The outside edge is a 3 beaded picot and I used invisible nylon snaps to secure the pockets and the hussif itself. The flora and fauna are done in silk ribbon, rachel , and #12 silk perl thread. It took some planning to decide which accoutrements I used often enough to include in the hussif but I'm very pleased with the outcome. Suzanne Bruno

I am sending you some photos of my crazy patchwork so that you may include them in your Reader’s Showcase. The first photo is of three Christmas decorations which I made last Christmas.

The second and third photos are of some little purses I made for some of the girls at work – I made one and then everyone wanted one. They are the size of ATCs because that was how it started, I was making some ATCs and one girl mentioned that it would make a nice little coin purse. Here are some of purses. Vivienne Garforth Perth, Western Australia

I am sending photos of a CQ Wallhanging that I made for a "swap" on an On-Line crazy quilt group to which I belong. The swap was called, "Its My Bag". This wallhanging was completed on 09/11/5 and titled "New Orleans Nights". It went to another CQuiter who lives in England.

I am a Quilter in Turkey and I try to promote Turkish Oya that is made by hand with the village people and we use them to embellish our crazy quilts with them and they are so beautiful. There are millions of different ones ;please let me know if it could be any interest to crazy patchwork quilters in U.S.A.

Editor's Note: If you wish to purchase or want more information on Oya contact editor@cqmagonline for Zeynep's email address.

Agnes Duennhaupt

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