I took a few photos of the crazy quilt that I made several years ago. Here you can see the basic overview of the block placement. There are 30 blocks with sashing, and a "sidewalk" border that meanders around the outside. I really enjoyed doing the embroidery on this quilt. Crazy quilts are a project that can just take you over.
The sashing and background are black wool. Because the piecing seemed to get a bit diminished next to the black, I couched strands of perle cotton along the edges of the blocks and the border.
Of course I had a lot of fun collecting the fancy fabrics to use in the quilt:
I took apart a lot of ties, even one made of fortrel!
I did a pieced binding on it as well, and added some stitching to accent it.
The other crazy thing that happened is our trip to Savannah. We left home on Sunday morning at 5 a.m. but didn't get here until Monday night at about 8:30. It was an awful trip. It seemed that anything that could go wrong, did go wrong, except for a plane crashing or making emergency landing. That included getting bumped off an oversold flight, being sent to Toronto (late), waiting 1-1/2 hours for baggage to unload, getting to hotel at 2a.m., finding out at 5 a.m. on Monday morning at the toronto airport that the re-scheduled flight had been cancelled, (I had a mini-melt-down then), getting rescheduled for 6 hours later, and it being late taking off. getting sent to Newark, and again being on a delayed flight, (2 more hours). So the 10 hour travel time turned into 39 hours. Blah.
So, Now we are in Savannah, and it is pleasant here. I was traumatized, but I might get over it.
This is Richard, down by the River.
The Jere's Antique store you see the sign for at the top of the stairs is incredible. The second floor was devoted to tables and chairs:
We came across this amazing magnolia tree, trailing Spanish moss:
I thought they bloomed later, like in June, but this one was totally covered in blossoms.
Also, there is a nice coffee shop near our hotel!!
