I did it! It took a while, but I did some work on my crazy quilt today, and I got the embroidery done, and now this weekend I can quilt it! I’m so excited! I think I might add a few buttons first! What do you guys and gals think I should add to it to make it even crazier!?
I was slaving over this hot mess of fabric all Sunday! Okay, well about 2 hours on Sunday, and I’m all ready to cut it into panels and then add the embroidery! I cannot wait to take this modern crazy quilt from cool to awesome! It is going to be just fabulous! Now I just have to pick a type of embroidery to do, and I can run with it!
I cut more strips into it, and rearranged them. I only ave to do that about 3 more times and then I can add the embroideries, and then call it a day and quilt this darn thing! I love crazy quilts, but they just take up so much time! And Thread!
I was up way too late last night working on this! I’m glad I did though! I just love the way it is shaping up! One of these days I’ll be done with it. Maybe by next month! One can only hope!
I know it’s been a while since I posted anything about this, because it has been folded up in the other room. Haha. Now that I have a little free time, I took a break from the wonky log cabin quilt I’m working on, I decided to work on this a little bit. It still has a long way to go, but one of these days it will be fabulous! I guarantee it! I’m even teaching a crazy quilt class at the shop I work at in June! I’m so excited!
Since I liked the last Crazy Quilt so much, I decided to do another one. This one will be shades of grey and black, and then all of the thread is going to be shades of red. I’ll also be teaching a class on this at the shop soon, so I better hurry up and make it! Now that I bought a new machine, I can do the decorative stitches at home, so I should be pretty far along by Monday morning. We shall see! Wish me luck!
Follow the jump to see pictures of my last Crazy Quilt!
Here is an updated version of the crazy quilt pillow I am working on. It is for a co-workers birthday, and I really hope she likes it. It will be a sample in her store for a while and then she can take it home! I even going to be teaching a class on it soon! I can’t wait to put the back on and shove a pillow in it!
I was working at the Indiana Sewing Center today and I was going to start work on the next crazy quilt, but then I thought about how cute it would be if I did a crazy quilted throw pillow. I am so in love! It was really easy to piece, and it was really fun to embroider, and it is a great way to use up all of my scraps! I still have to do the quilting on it, and then make it into a pillow, but I did all of the piecing and decorative stitches down the seams today. I think I did alright. For the next three months it will be hanging at the Kalamazoo Store, and then after that it is going home with the person I made it for. It’s her birthday present, and I know she is going to love it.
I put on a binding! I’m not completely done with the quilting, but I wanted to pick out a binding. I just have about 2 more hours of work to do on it, and then I can call it a day! Well, not quite. I still have to do the buttons! I’ve got about 4 more hours of work to do on this, but then it will be done, and I can start on the next one! I’m really excited!
I started to quilt it! I also managed to shred hundreds of documents today as well. (Not that the two are related.) So, I just settled down at my sewing machine. I’m going to hop back on the Colts quilt now, but I just really wanted to start this. It was just nagging at me to throw some shiny thread on it!
Eric The Quilter 