My Quilt Embellisher features 50 crazy quilt stitches that can be combined, sized, rotated and morphed to create hundreds of gorgeous stitches. My Quilt Embellisher is the software I used to create the projects in Today’s Crazy Quilting with Your Embroidery Machine. To embellish a block with crazy quilt stitches, take a photograph of the block and load it into the software as a Backdrop. Define the horizon and the scale. You’ll find those tools on the left toolbar, just click on the arrow under the Backdrop icon.
Select the Crazy Quilting icon.
Select a stitch from the drop down menu. Select stitch #10.
Once selected, you’ll notice the cursor changes to a small crosshair. Left mouse click and drag the mouse to create the motif. The longer you drag, the larger the motif. Each motif can be dropped individually creating an organic, hand-stitched look. The line of crazy quilt stitches shown below is five repeats – all slightly different sizes. If your individual units are not aligned, select all and click on Horizontal Center Align to align the units. 
If a design is skewed, just select the individual design and drag the corner handle to rotate it. 
Crazy quilting stitches are such a fun, decorative technique for adding embellishments to quilt blocks, small wall hangings, purses and more. One of my favorite projects from the book is this charming storage box.
If you like crazy quilting, you might enjoy my book, Today’s Crazy Quilting with Your Embroidery Machine. The book includes instructions for creating your own crazy quilt blocks using My Quilt Embellisher software. Follow the steps in the book and watch the video on the CD to learn everything you need to know. You can learn more about the book here.
6 COMMENTS
CHARLETTE Smith
6 years agoI don’t believe that using a machine is right for quilting or embroidering. There is no art or care anymore. It’s like using a calculator to do math. It’s cheating
Rondalyn
6 years agoEven the long arms have prescribed patterns that quilt on it’s own. But everyone has their own lpreferences. I’m new at quilting but I like playing around and spreading my wings.
Rondalyn
6 years agoEven the long arms have prescribed patterns that quilt on it’s own. But everyone has their own lpreferences. I’m new at quilting but I like playing around and spreading my wings.
Just me
6 years agoStop living in the past, the year is 2018 not 1820.
take advantage of TODAY not yesterday
Lou
6 years agoI think it is excitin g to p lay with and Create. It sti ll is an art just using different tools
Ariana Gomez
6 years agoWow love this blog, The embroidery designs with new technology will give a new ray of light to designing world.