This is a stand-out crazy quilt, isn't it?
I generally think of Victorian crazies as having so many more blacks and maroons, browns and navies, with brighter fabrics and embroidery threads interspersed only now and then.
So I looked back at photos of other crazies that have crossed my path, and well, was surprised to see how many are very colorful after all. So what is it about this one that makes it feel so very different?
This quilt is super joyful! It is packed of a wide variety of embellishments, all heightened by beading and other creative and fancy bits - it is simply dancing. The brightness has been heightened a bit by patching done in the 1970s that add in that era's colors, too. But clearly the quilt was a riot of color right from the start!
