Crazy Quilt Journal Project...top done!

There is an online crazy quilt project being done this year....each month you make a crazy quilt block and submit it online. i am done early....and, of course, i had to be an over-achiever and made 9 blocks each month. one was extensively embellished and the other 8...not so much....just seam embellishments and some buttons and beads...maybe some embroidery. i finished all the blocks for the year and pieced them all into a top....sheesh that sucker is heavy.

Set 10x11 blocks....blocks finished at 9 1/2"...so top is now 95x104 1/2".  what a quilting job that will be.

Some blocks are extensively embellished and some not so much.

This was a fun project...and although i think i won't do any more crazy quilting for a while....i do have a white/cream crazy quilt ongoing....a couple dozen blocks are already done. and i have an idea for another crazy quilt....my brain just won't stop.  anyone know how to clone themselves?....i need an assistant.

I hope to get this quilted sooner rather than...

Later

Re-crafted thrift store hat

I love thrift stores....do you?  sometimes my sister and I spend the whole day checking out thrift stores all over town. some days we fill the truck with goodies and some days we just go have lunch instead.

the local Goodwill stores around our area seem to be getting donations from Target and such stores. you see many more clothes with the tags still on them and lots of kitchen items, household items and such that are recognizable as coming from a retail store.

a few weeks ago i found a hat...they had several colors of the same hat. it was made of angora and still had a tag on it. so i figured i would give one of them a new home. i was thinking of adding some felt embellishments or something to it with my embellishment machine.

it had a funky flower on it made of wool....i took that off. i had some different yarns that i thought might look good. so i embellished them on there first. i went around the hat 3 or 4 times with each yarn.

then i had a piece of silk that i folded and stuck on there with a piece of folded pink felt over that. i embellished it all down in the middle. then piled 3 buttons on top. that was it. quick and easy with a whole new look.

my niece loves thrift shops, too and i thought she might enjoy this hat so i sent it to her. she showed me a picture of a knitted cap that she had gotten at the thrift store and that is what made me remember this hat.

so the hat is on it's way to savannah, georgia.  if you see it around somewhere, you will know where it came from. LOL

perhaps the next time i am at the thrift store i will look for another hat and see what else i can do.