Project 11: Hello Crazy Quilt!

I always wanted to make a crazy quilt, but couldn't get myself in doing it. All those beautiful hand-sewing stitches that go into it keep me away. So when the opportunity to try a simple version of a crazy quilt with our "share group", I jump with a heartbeat and hope with would be fun and easy.  And it was!!

We had to take our black and white scraps, which I didn't have enough. Can you believe that! True to my words, I stayed home and dug into my stash of fabric. With a grin on my face, I found Hello at the bottom of one of my bins. A layered-cake in a tone of light beige/ blacks by Robert Kaufman. Beautiful tones of fabric with a different patterns. Just in case I didn't have enough, I brought additional fabric that went well with it.

Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of my fabric before I cut them in strips.  Something to remember next time. But here a simpler of it.

With only one layer-cake, I came short of fabrics and added my additional fabric and it was enough to make my 12 blocks, which the pattern required.

You can find this simple version of the crazy quilt in the book: Quilting in Black & White by Leisure Arts. It's a very simple pattern and easy to do.

 With darker and lighter fabrics sewed together, you can alternate the block.

For my decorative thread, I used the Essential Threads 100% cotton by Connecting Threads. Gold for my darker fabric and a dark grey for my lighter blocks.

 The centred piece was pinned in the center of the muslin square. The strips of different sized are sewed around it.

   I am not sure what will be the colours for around the blocks

 Not sure when this project will be completed. I hope it's not another UFO. I'll keep you updated when I worked more on it. For now, let go of quilt!

Updated: November 23, 2015

  For the block's sashing, I opted for the black & beige combo.  My final step is planning the free-motion quilting on this one.  For the blocks that have a larger center, it would be nice to have some decorative threat. Because the blocks are already heavily embroidery with decorative stitches, I'm wondering if I should quilt it with a very simple quilting pattern. We'll see.

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