Helen L. Sheppard Dounce Crazy Quilt
Elaborate, complex, decorative — gaudy? The beauty of a crazy quilt is in the eye of the beholder. They’re composed of irregularshaped fabric pieces sewn either to a foundation fabric or to each other in a haphazard fashion, and the skill of the maker can create something that looks as elegant as faceted jewels or as messy as a pile of broken pottery. Some historians have erroneously identified crazy quilting as the first kind of patchwork, believing needlewomen with scant access to
