Sunday, March 31, 2019

The un-crazy quilt

Let me go crazy on you. Another quilting class I took in the early 2010 was for a crazy quilt.   The challenge was not only learning to piece this quilt, but also to use some of those fancy stitches that are included on our sewing machines.  My sewing machine has well over 30.
It was fun as I zipped away at piecing the squares.  I even bought different coordinating colors of thread for the decorative topstitching.  I decorated a couple squares with assorted stitching and that's where I stopped.  This quilt was put into a plastic bag and became a UFO for many years.
Working on my UFOs I opened this bag and looked at this quilt I wondered what made me stop - why didn't I finish it.  I was so close to being done. All the squares were pieced and assembled together. All I had left to do was continue the decorative stitching.  As I pondered what happened to this quilt I realized that I didn't like the decorative stitching on the squares - so I stopped.  So now I guess I will call this the un-crazy quilt.
I spent the next couple hours ripping out the decorative stitching on the couple squares and was already feeling better about the finish.  Heck, I even had the backing folded up with the quilt. I loaded the quilt on my longarm and a few hours later it was ready for binding.
I love this quilt.
All bound and it's ready for a new home on my queen bed.


This was crazy easy - or should I say un-crazy.   At this pace I should be zipping through all these UFOs.   With quilt six finished back to the pile.



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