As threatened promised

So. This is where I started... twelve 6 1/2" crazy scrap blocks made for...? Dunno. Scrap reduction, no doubt. I made them last autumn, when I should have been working on Tori's quilt, or Craft Fair items, or any one of a hundred *productive* things, but I wanted to make some crazy blocks, so I did. They went into the project box reserved for things with no specific purpose. yet.

I was wandering around the internet, looking for something to spark an idea, when I came across, of all things, a picture of Ronald Reagan. Seriously. (I'm not a fan) This will not be a Ronald Reagan quilt, this piece has nothing to do with the man (with the possible exception of the crazy) however, there was something in the picture that plucked a string... The Reagan was 9 identical images, laid 3 x 3, but coloured sort of a la Andy Warhol - bright splashes of colour over the black and white images. I wish I'd bookmarked it, or saved a copy, but I didn't.

I considered leaving the crazy squares as they were, making more, and setting them with sashing. I yawned. Given the choice, my quilts are made of smaller, rather than larger blocks, so I took those 6" blocks and cut them down to 3" (2 1/2" finished) MUCH better!

And then I started making more. A 3" crazy block is fast - generally no more than 4 or 5 pieces, and they use up lots of little bits. This is a GOOD thing. I counted blocks until I got to 100. There are a few more than that now, I'm making them as leader/ender bits.

I've started re-assembling them, this time into 7 1/2" blocks. They'll get bordered in black too, but I'm not sure yet if that border will be 1/2", 3 1/4", or wider still and skip the sashing. We'll see, I guess. If I go with a skinny border, I'll use something different for the sashing. What? No idea.