A pattern featuring sheep & rams. It features 20 sheep and rams, a border collie to keep them in line & watch over them, a fence to border the field of crazy quilt scraps, and four faces (for the cornerstones of a quilt). Two of the sheep have slubby wool yarn coats. I looped the yarn up and down in rows (starting at the belly of the sheep) and zigzagged with the sewing machine across the top of the loops of eache row.

This cotton quilt in the photo above measures 33" x 57". You can make your quilt any shape.

In 2008, I discovered the felting needle and wool rovings (see the photos below for the results). Felting can be done through cotton fabrics with no problems. However, using wool suitings will take this pattern to a different level.

This pattern that was used for the sheep in the pattern Crazy Sheep. That pattern shows how you can take any of our patterns and run with them using hand embroidery and felting and wool fabrics. This is not similar to running with scissors! It is fun to push the envelope.

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This is a sample of the techniques I am working with, making this quilt of woolly sheep. The piece is about 12" square.	This example is another way of using the sheep designs. I bought a bunch of suiting weight woolens and fused the sheep to the backgrounds and satin stitched them in place. Then I felted some wild wool yarn to one of the sheep and embroidered by hand the expressions on the faces in black thread and the crazy stitches in variegated pearl cotton. Lots more sections to do before I can sew them all together. If I were to do it again, I would use raw edge stitching for the sheep that I felted. It was hard to push the roving through the satin stitching.	The bags at the top of the photo are rovings that I collected to make some sheep 3-D. Notice the sheep with the wild yarn got toned down with rust colored roving.
Many weeks later, there are many details added. The top is now about 42" square. I still want to add the fence and the faces in the cornerstones.	This is the woolen quilt so far, on September 2, 2008. I've been filling in some of the empty patches with cone flowers and black eyed susans and sunflowers. These flowers are represented heavily in my garden. The flowers are simple, made of daisy stitches.	Detail of horned sheep. I felted the horns and then embroidered the lines on top, to add the texture of the rings on the horns.
A green sheep, why not?	This is the latest photo of the progress of this crazy quilt, June 9, 2009. The wall is the theme of the border and will have a gate on the bottom border. I don't know what it going to look like yet.	This is the beginning of the border on the left side of the quilt top. The rocks comprizing the wall are felted using a combination of different colors for each stone. The flowers are hand embroidered with pearl cotton thread. As I got more skilled at the embroidery, some of the flower centers and all of the cattails were felted.
I embroider what I think a flower looks like and then I go in the garden and see that I am making stuff up!	The more I work on this quilt top, the more innovative it becomes.	The cat tails are felted with embroidered stems and pointed top details. This section is the bottom right border.

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