Crazy Quilt Block Swap #1 Febuary

sorry everyone, I've just spend a week in hospital. Just got home and have caught up on everything. Your partners are now assigned and I've added extra time for completion

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The purpose of this swap is to create and swap blocks of crazy quilting where you use random scraps of fabric in a random pattern to form a block that makes up a bigger quilt.

The easiest way to do this is to sew the random fabric on top of an existing square of cotton, making sure to go around every edge of the scrap fabric.

I'm new to quilting, but not sewing so I'm going to ask for comments about what size we should make these blocks. Anyone? ...Well 8 1/2 inches seems to be the favorite for all the PM's so lets make that our official size.

As to fabrics etc there are no rules! I use all my random offcuts which could be silk/cotton/rayon etc as well as short pieces of ribbon and lacy edgings.

mystmaiden has asked if these should be embellished blocks or pieced but unembellished blocks? I'm thinking unembelished...but I'm open to a vote. :)

I'll be running these CQ swaps for as long as there's interest