Sew It – Show It: Call Me Crazy

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August 21-24 –   Call Me Crazy  (Joan – calicojoan@aol.com)

Joan of Moose Stash Quilting is the organizer of this blog hop. Here’s what she had to say about this Blog Hop:

We all know that crazy and scary feeling of wondering what we were thinking, when we started or were in the middle of sewing something out of our comfort zone.
Now’s the time to share them with us all!
It always make me feel better, knowing I’m not truly the only crazy person out there!
The rules are simple, make your project, write a post and have it scheduled to publish by midnight EST, the day your scheduled.

Well, I OBVIOUSLY did not read the instructions. I took it to mean that we had to do some Crazy Quilting. Probably since I’ve made a few projects in recent months … You can read about these projects HERE and HERE.

I used a pattern by Karen Overton, The Quilt Rambler. You can access the pattern HERE and the Youtube video HERE.

I was inspired by a fellow Island Batik ambassador who made a crazy quilted book cover for the “Crazy Quilt” challenge. You can see Emily’s (Darling Dogwood) book cover HERE.

I used an Island Batik fabric collection called Wild Blooms. There is Hobbs 80/20 batting in the middle and Aurifil thread was used for the piecing and quilting. The button came from my button box and I think it might have been one of my mom’s buttons! That translates to “It’s likely OLD!”

I’m always asked about my quilting. I quilt on a domestic sewing machine, a Janome M7. I LOVE my M7!!!!

Here is mine:

The following pictures show the Back insert, the button applied, the zipper and vinyl pocket and the bookmark in the composition notebook!

Here are the rest of the Crazy Blog Hoppers

Be sure to visit each of them! I promise you’ll be inspired!

Monday August 21

Tuesday August 22

Wednesday August 23

Thursday August 24

One who sleeps under a quilt is covered by LOVE!

Happy Quilting!    
Gail 

38 thoughts on “Sew It – Show It: Call Me Crazy”

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  9. Crazy quilts are so much fun! I need to make that one of my next projects to use up my ever crazy pile of scraps! Thanks for sharing.

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  11. I love that composition cover – the crazy quilting is absolutely perfect. You may be crazy but your mind is spot-on with how it came up with ‘crazy quilting’. 🙂 I know crazy quilting has been around for a long time, but I sometimes wonder if it was a frugal quilter that needed to use up fabric scraps.

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  15. Your book cover and the quilting on it are beautiful! I love your other “crazy” quilts, too. Going crazy with all those pieces definitely met the challenge. Thanks for sharing, Gail!

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  17. Looking at your quilts gives me the feeling of crazy. I love them but I don’t know if I could do that much specialized quilting. Your book cover is great. Love the possibility of the button being your moms.

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  19. I love your crazy quilted book cover. Those batiks really make it sing! And yes yes yes, it fits in with the theme perfectly. The nice thing about challenges, are they are open to interpretation.

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