This is my whole crane block.  The print of the crane was so beautiful, I decided to leave it as it was and to embellish other parts of the design.  When I do my crazy quilt blocks, I create the whole crazy quilt block without embellishments on my sewing machine.  I simply piece the block onto a muslin square.  (These blocks are all 12.5X12.5".)  Then I put some stabilizer under the muslin and do all the machine seam coverage I want to do.  If I have some machine hooped embroidery work, I do that next.  Usually, I tear off the stabilizer at that point and do the rest of the work by hand; I may or may not use a hand embroidery hoop. Finally, I add my hand embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, buttons, beads, what-have-you.  That way, I don't have to worry about lumps or crushing something when I put the work into a hoop.  I use a few built-in stitches from my Pfaff 7570 for the seams, but most of the seam decoration which is done by sewing machine are designs of my own.  Sometimes I do hand embroidery of the seams, but since I spent so much time developing 9mm and maxi embroideries for the Pfaff, I like to use them on my crazy quilting when I can.

This close-up shows some of my silk ribbon roses and hand embroidery combined with a purchased dragonfly design.  I don't know why I chose a purchased dragonfly.  I certainly have enough embroidery patterns of them, but I guess I just wanted to try it.  You will see some of my own machine seam embroidery on this.  Along the left of the red piece is a two part floral design I did.  I first stitched the green pointed grass, and then I came back later with the gold flowerdesign and stitched it in place at the "v" of each grass section.  On the bottom left of the solid green piece is a variegated purple thorn stitch I created in my software.  All these seam stitches are my designs.