Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Crazy a.k.a My Mini Quilt

For the past 2 weeks,


it seems we have constantly been moving calves to shelter and bedding down.


Four days of blizzards in two weeks... enough already!!

With every one happy and healthy,

I thought I would start on my mini quilt for Quilting Gallery's Spring Swap.

I have made this mini wedding ring a couple of times before and framed them.

This time I thought I would make it 4 times as big which still keeps it under the 24" rule!!

I was thinking of binding in the strip and rings of blue and yellow.


This is a small project with lots of pieces....little ones at that!


I bet you thought this was the crazy part...


No.. not yet....

 there were some blue ring


Creeping up on CRAZY...

 this is HALF of the cornerstone!

Sew two of these 3/4" pieces to make a.......

THIS is the crazy part....

 ONE INCH Four Patch


This is where I realized I was humming the tune "Crazy".....



Seventy two of these little gems hand stitched on.


I put myself under the intermediate category for the trade
and
thought I was pushing my way into that group.

I would like to rethink that now!!

Where is the category for 'Crazy'?

Christa




 

8 comments:

  1. wow. not something i'd be attempting. it is very lovely.

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  2. Holy!!! You're putting me to shame! Stop it!

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    1. You're will be amazing and I could never compete with your points. You forced me to go round!!

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  3. Better you than me! Nice work

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  4. It's amazing what you will do for something you love that they couldn't pay someone enough to do.

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  5. It may be crazy, but it's fantastic! Not something I would tackle though!

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  6. Love the minis! I fell in awe of them last year in Minot. You could teach us a few things.

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    1. You make some incredible mini's yourself!! You should join the swap...there's still time! Just click on the icon at the top!

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