Monday, February 3, 2025

Scrappy Crossroads Is Completed

The pattern for Scrappy Crossroads came from the book, "Scrappiness is Happiness" by Lori Holt. It's an old time pattern, otherwise known as "Arkansas Crossroads". I found wide backing fabric that I competely forgot about in a closet, so that became the back of the quilt. Also, in the same closet, I found several large pieces of Warm and White batting that I pieced together. That batting from from about 20 years ago. I noticed how much thicker and more substantial the batting used to be. Batting nowadays is a lot thinner and flimsier. Shrinkflation is everywhere, even in the quilting world! I used light green Onmi thread for the free-motion quilting. This thread didn't work for me the last time I used it, but this time I used the same in the top and bobbin. It worked like a charm. Omni doesn't like Bottom Line thread in the bobbin. I'll keep that in mind. Whenever I finish a quilt, Geo always asks me, "What are you going to do with that one?" I don't usually know, they get put away and the decision comes later. I always have a need to be creative, so I just constantly make things.

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