Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies 2018
This was the eighth annual Cruisin’ thru the Cozies hosted by Yvonne at Socrates’ Book Reviews and 2018 is my 6th year to participate. I always reach Level 4 – Sleuth Extraordinaire, but in keeping with my word for this year, I lightened my load and rather than jettison this fun challenge, I lowered my level to Level two (Investigator) and chose option B. This turned out to be a good choice as many things happened this year to keep me from reading and I barely made it with two weeks left in the year. [Read more…] about 2018 Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies wrap-up
I’ve been working on this quilt for a long time, in that I’ve been slowly playing with fabric scraps to construct these “made fabric” squares. They were pieced together randomly from my ‘tiny scrap’ bin and when a section got large enough, I trimmed it into a 6″ finished square. When I had enough constructed, I set them on point using the setting pattern for the 1920’s Farmer’s Wife quilt that my quilt group is working on, and voila! A craaazzzzy quilt. I made a wonky, crazy pieced backing and made a totally random scrappy binding from pieces of leftover binding from other quilts. I quilted it myself on my home machine with a free-style crazy quilting pattern of spirals in the squares and loops in between. It’s totally scrappy and was fun to make. The only problem is that with all those biases, it doesn’t square up perfectly. But this was an experiment and it’s made to be loved and used, so whoever gets it can just use it to death, and it’s OK.
