Crazy Quilty - Starting off

The title here, "Crazy Quilty," was a typo....but I like it!!!

On this crazy quilty adventure here, I just jumped in like I usually do. Figure it out as you go!  This isn't the best method as I spend a lot of time committing to something I started out doing, and didn't feel like I could give up on.

Just a little bit more will fix this mess! Nope. Doesn't seem to work that way. 

Anyway, most of the worst messes I have made are in places where the fabric was almost non-existent. I stitches the heck out of those places. As I went along, they got uglier and uglier. But I am someone who commits to whatever it is. 

My thinking is that I can always pull it out later or cover it with a new scrap of fabric.

This mess:

is one that I woke up at night thinking about. Ugh! I kept thinking about how ugly it is.

In the morning I looked at it and thought, "Oh, it isn't all that bad." If I don't like it as I finishing the project, I can always deal with it then.  Of course, it also is a sort of document of my progress....my improvement. (I hope my improvement.)

And with that in mind, here was the first thing I did on the quilt. I appliquéd a new piece of fabric and then did a blanket stitch over it. Wow, is that primitive!!!

It will get better. 

And I need to investigate more about crazy quilts before I do too much. I need to look at what others have already done so I can get some inspiration.