Crazy quilting

How fortunate am I?

This is a puzzle piece from the

"Queen of the Crazies" .

Yep, you guessed it, Miss Pat Winters herself!

Thank you Pat and Happy Birthday!

Crazy Quilting

Crazy Quilt art by Pat Winters

Pat Winters who does crazy great,

Crazy Quilt work

co ordinated a swap named

Pieces of Friendship.

Crazy Quilt art by Pat Winters

Puzzle pieces by Terisa Brooks-Huddleston

The above puzzle pieces are the one's I sent.

Hum.. still need a few more lesson's from Pat I can see.

These are the great pieces I received.

I'm trying to come up with a great way to display them.

I'm up for any ideas.

Blue: Karrin's Crazy World

Brown: Cindy's Stitches in Time

Pink: Rabbit Tat

Junk "Wad"

About a month ago I received a manila envelope in the mail.

I just love the mail now that I blog. Junk mail and bills are now interspersed with gifts, swaps and cards....how cool is that!

I open it up to find a typed instruction sheet that was drawn upon, stamped on, machine stitched, and pinking sheer cut. Included was a hand full of Pink Artist squares.

I laid out the 2 x 2's that were so lovingly created by the artists, admiring each one. Also included was a "wad" of fabrics and beads. As I plucked through the fabric bits and pieces I found myself chuckling out loud. It suddenly occurred to me that I was softly touching each piece as if it were gold and I too have a "wad" of fabric on my studio floor that I have yet to sweep up and carry out to the trash!

Yep,it is true...

One persons junk "wad"

is another persons treasure "wad".

I have felt creatively starved over the last week so I began to lay out my 10 x 10 quilt square that will make it's way back to Monica, Girl Gone Thread Wild, created into a wall art quilt, sent into Quilt Art Studio a new magazine from Stampington & Companies and auctioned off for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation.

Whew, I think that was a run on sentence. Sue, Dixie, my teacher friends, is it?

I've titled my piece, "Take Flight".

You'll see why when it's finished up. By the way it isn't even due until Dec.1! And yes, I have begun. Why? It's called creative avoidance because I have more yucky cushions to sew!

There are only 16 days left to place a donation for

"Love Squared" The Pink Artist Project.

See more pictures here and details on how to donate.

Remember Cancer has no boundaries.