Call Me Crazy Challenge, My Day

 

 

This is my day on the Call Me Crazy Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting.  

Her challenge this time in her words was " to sew something that you wouldn't normally sew or share something you can't believe you sewed. We all know that crazy and scary feeling of wondering what we were thinking, when we started or were in the middle of sewing something out of our comfort zone."

I have lots of crazy things to show and tell today.  

Long, long ago, I had 2 blogs, Ocean4Karrin, which was devoted to family happenings, and my sane quilting.  I started that one in 2006, and it only had 52 posts, I eventually stopped blogging there.

On 2/20/2007 I started a new blog, this one, Karrin's Crazy World to blog about my crazy quilting activities, CQ round robins I was in, Sharon Boggan's Take A Stitch Tuesday , and I participated in CQ Journal Project, where I was making a block a month for a year.   Eventually this was the blog that I did everything on.  

I have always loved crazy quilting, been fascinated with it and love working with it.  When I first started sane quilting, I started collecting books by Judith Baker Montano, her silk embroidery books, her embroidery stitch books.  I had 5 books in all.  

In around 2005 my husband and I were on a Mexican Riviera Cruise.  He came back to the cabin and told me there was good news and bad news.  Good news it was a quilting cruise.  Bad news was I couldn't join in.  That night before dinner we were in the Crows Nest and in another section were the quilters, and they were introducing the teachers and I heard Judith Baker Montano's name mentioned.  The next day at lunch I introduced myself to her and told her I loved her books.  She invited me to see what the class was doing and told me she was teaching at Empty Spools in Asilomar in February.  I went back home and signed up.  This was my first project, which isn't finished yet, but will be one day.  I took all of my books to class and she signed them for me!

I signed up the next year when she was teaching at Empty Spools in Asilomar too.  This was a CQ landscape class.  I love the ocean, love lighthouses, so that was the subject of my landscape.  

The next year Judith said she was coming out with a new book, and she liked to include student pictures in her books, and if we had anything finished, she would like to include it.  So I sent in a picture of this one, and I am published!

My friend Patricia Winters once had a blog, that is no longer, but she created these Boho Bags.  I made about 7 of these, 3 for me, and 2 for my granddaughter, and a couple for other people.

I have also made small pouches and purses in crazy quilting.

I had noticed at one of Judith Baker Montano's classes in her displays of work she had done, she had a family CQ.  Each member had their own block.  I really liked that idea.  So in 2012 I decided to participate in the CQ Journal project, and each month would make a different block featuring family members.  

These are some of my blocks.    My daughters.

This was one from my childhood.  I am the big girl, about 12 or so with a scowl on my face.   My mother got me this ugly red bathing suit that didn't fit right, and my sister got a cute pink suit with lace on it.  

My girls when they were babies.

My parents wedding picture

My mother's parents

My dear husband John and I

John and his mom at the beach when he is a baby

My girls again

John's parents' wedding picture

My wedding picture

I really need to get busy and start making blocks again.  My girls are in their 40's, and I have 5 grandchildren that need their own blocks.  So much to do, so little time!  

Hope you enjoyed seeing my craziness.  Be sure and visit the other bloggers below and leave a sweet word.  Thanks again Joan for allowing me to share my craziness!  This has been a lot of fun.  

Monday August 21

MooseStashQuilting

Selina Quilts

Quilting Gail

Just Because Quilts

Words & Stitches

 

Tuesday August 22

Karrin’s Crazy World

Scrapdash

Inflorescence

VroomansQuilts

Happy Cottage Quilter

 

Wednesday August 23

 Den syende himmel

Just Sew Quilter

Ms P Designs USA

Quilted Snail

MooseStashQuilting Guest Post

 

Thursday August 24

Just Let Me Quilt

BeaQuilter

Stitching Farm Girl

 Days Filled with Joy

Thanks for stopping by!