Give a F*ck: blocks #35-40

More of the blocks contributed to the Give a F*ck project. There are still more blocks on the way, but this is the last batch that I’ve gotten to photograph this week. We’ll definitely make it to my target of 49 blocks!

Disclaimer: The f*ck word appears down below at least 4 times. If that’s gonna be a problem, then don’t scroll down. Instead, have a cookie and indulge in exploring The International Quilt Study Center and Museum.

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Ready?

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Here’s another eclectic collection!

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Rachel Lake McElwain

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Maritza Soto

Maritza Soto

Maritza Soto

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Pam Cole

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Kay Gardiner answers those who ask why we’re making this quilt.

Give a F*ck: blocks #29-34

More cataloging of the blocks contributed to the Give a F*ck project. There is one lovely stack of blocks on my sewing table right now that I am itching to get onto my (currently nonexistent) design wall. I have a few ideas for the plan–checker-boarding, bento-boxing, or swirly-whirly–and my usual swishing around on the floor just won’t work out to maintain my sanity in this situation. So I assume I just stick some batting on the wall somehow?

Disclaimer: The f*ck word appears down below at least 4 times. If that’s gonna be a problem, then don’t scroll down. Instead, pour yourself a cuppa and settle in for a while over in The Quilt Index.

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Ready for another eclectic collection?

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Bertha Crowley

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Beth

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Jacey Lucas

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Maryse Roudier

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LauraJSews

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Cathy Rumfelt

Give a F*ck: blocks #24-28

More cataloging of the blocks contributed to the Give a F*ck project. Even these brief posts using other folks’ blocks are tough to do daily. Or maybe yesterday was just a particularly terrible Tuesday? I dunno. I’ll try to keep up.

Disclaimer: The f*ck word appears down below at least 4 times. If that’s gonna be a problem, then don’t scroll down. Instead, go check out some sweet redwork quilts or dwell a while at Chez Facile Cecile for some multicraftual loveliness.

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Hmm…

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Ready for four uncategorized blocks? Well, I chose neutrals, sorta.

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Tia Campbell made this using veterans’ uniforms

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Alissa Haight Carlton

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Tina Marney

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all handpieced by Serena Morgan Potter

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Ann Thompson

Give a F*ck: blocks #20-23

Moving right along with cataloging the blocks contributed to the Give a F*ck project. Those cursive ones are super sweet and downright polite. Today we’ll look at some appliqued ones.

Disclaimer: The f*ck word appears down below at least 4 times. If that’s gonna be a problem, then don’t scroll down. May I recommend that you check out some super hawt fabrics instead? I am partial to the UPS version and there looks to be plenty of men to go around there. [Special thanks to my buddy Kay for the linkage!]

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Alright…

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Ready for four different appliqued f*cks?

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Valérie Miller of KnitBug

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Wannett Clyde of Sown Brooklyn

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Kathie Boucher of Threadlines

Jocelyn

Give a F*ck: blocks #16-19

Okay!! I have 24 more blocks from the Give a F*ck project to show you this week. I have been categorzing and rearranging blocks all weekend to get a start on a vision for the overall design. There might be thematic days of show-and-tell. Otherwise, let’s just behold the lovely f*ckery my friends have made.

Disclaimer: These posts are a cataloging of the contributed blocks in the project. The f*ck word appears down below at least 4 times. If that’s gonna be a problem, then don’t scroll down. But come back next week! I am working on a new super colorful scrappy knit blanket that I hope to show you soon. Well, I’m stuck worrying about the applied i-cord as the body knitting comes to an end. And I’m super sad to have missed a snowy photo opportunity for it this past weekend. Grr.

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Today is Curses in Cursive Day!

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Lynn Harris of The Little Red Hen

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Jessie Spressart

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Monica Dunkley of Quilt While You’re Ahead.

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Amanda Hall

Give a F*ck: a few more blocks (#13-15)

We took a break from the Give a F*ck project for the holidays and some scrappy madness. Blocks have been trickling in all along and I made a few too. I’ll show you mine today and then it’s all f*cks all the time next week with more contributions and contributors.

Disclaimer: If you don’t like a certain f-word, then I encourage you to scroll down and challenge yourself. If you’re likely to be stricken with a touch of the vapors, then take a break from this blog. Come back later! There will always be more scrappy quilts, more handmade blankets, and even some ice cream recipes.
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Did you hear? Apparently even bleeping on tv is offensive.

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These are just a few simple cross-stitch ditties with improvisational patchwork frames. I can tell that the quilt will need some balancing blocks. These are the first few I’ll need to make.

Come back for more contributed f*ck blocks next week. Have an excellent weekend!

Crazy Plus Quilt

How about a “recipe” today?

1. Acquire big pile of yummy scraps as a gift from a de-stashing friend.

2. Join Scrap Attack, a festival of scrappiness hosted by Rachel of Stitched in Color.

3. Write a tutorial on making crazy quilt squares. Make 45 of them.

4. Agonize for a week about how to use those crazy squares. Do you make something super-duper scrappy and insane–as is your instinct? Or do you make something more tame?

4.5. No, really. Agonize some more. Sketch a few designs. Work out the math for each. Then reject each idea due to complex engineering issues. You’re willing to take stupid risks, but are other quilters feeling as intrepid? What will they think?

5. Settle on a simple and elegant design that unexpectedly requires great presence of mind. Jeni’s Plus Quilt Tutorial will get you started and guide you well.

5.25. Pull a rainbow of wacky scraps and forgotten FQs to use like this purple gem. It says: “Two people ate a cake of the full. I spent very happy time.”

5.75. Wonder where the cake is. Did the pearl-wearing bear eat the other person? Or is the cake inside the windmill? Where is the cake? We were promised cake!

6. Piece the top in one afternoon and then die from a terrible case of The Blahs when you see it all together. What a mess! The craziness just blends in with the prints and looks like a pool of fabric barf there in the middle.

7. Step away from the rotary cutter. Drink an adult beverage. And then tweet sad sack tweets, lamenting the death of your mojo. Sleep it off.

8. Your morning coffee catalyzes a few ideas for salvaging all that work. Here are two.

Option 1: slice and dice entire quilt top. Then re-piece into giant crazy quilt of shame.
Option 2: fence in the crazy blocks to demarcate the region of scrappy happiness and then hope for the best.

9. Prefer Option 1 with a burning passion, but go with Option 2.

10. Offer ONE MILLION COOKIES to anyone who will baste the quilt sandwich for you. (No one will take you up on the offer.)

11. Baste quilt. And then for the next week whine about quilting the thing because it all seems like a lost cause.

12. Grow up, quilt it, and then…

13. Meh.

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The Details:

"Pattern": mash-up of a tutorial on making crazy quilt squares and Jeni’s Plus Quilt Tutorial
Materials: scraps and fat quarters, old phone book pages, wide cotton print for backing, franken-binding
Techniques: machined pieced; machine quilted; and hand-bound
Finished size: 58" square
Started: January 4, 2012
Finished: January 16, 2012