--- title: "Call Me Crazy – Fracturing a Quilt" date: 2023-08-22 author: "Phoebe Moon" featured_image: "https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Outlaw-Biker.jpg" categories: - name: "New Ideas" url: "/category/new-ideas.md" --- # Call Me Crazy – Fracturing a Quilt This tutorial was part of a blog hop called Call Me Crazy. Last time the theme was “Crazy”, I did a [Stack N Slash](https://scrapdash.com/stack-slash-shuffle-and-stitch/) quilt. This time around I thought I would show a quilt that made ME crazy. The pattern is available for free to subscribers at the bottom of the page. If you’d rather just print, click the green *Print Friendly* button under the designer list. If that doesn’t work, try Ctrl + P (or Flower + P) to bring up the printer dialog box. ## The Inspiration Every year my friend Laurie and I make a raffle quilt to benefit [Foreverly House](https://vchcny.org/foreverly-house/). That is a two family home being built to provide stable, safe, supportive housing for homeless Veteran moms and their children. Here is one we made a few years ago, inspired by the [Fantasia pattern](https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fantasia-Fracture-Update.pdf) by Broome Street Patterns. We kinda made it up as we went along, using two panels to make it wider and adding rows to make it taller. ![Liberty Quilt](https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/liberty-quilt-628x800.webp) ## Laurie Brings Me a Challenge She found a 35″ x 44″ quilt panel of a motorcycle, called Live to Ride. ![Live to Ride motorcycle panel](https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fractured-motorcycle-panel-533x800.jpg) Her request was that we fracture this quilt to make larger so she could raffle it at some upcoming car shows. Challenge accepted! First I had to cut off the words on the top and bottom because those wouldn’t fracture well. Then I had to divide the top and add spacers to make the quilt wider. We decided on black spacers with a gold border to bring out the colors in the panel. Then she found some flame fabric and that became our border. Here is my EQ design. ![EQ Representation of a Fractured quilt](https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fractured-Sample-754x800.jpg) After a lot of measuring, this was the result. Neither of us realized that the black bars would make the Harley look like it was behind bars. That’s how it got the name… ![Outlaw Biker Top](https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fractured-top.jpg) ## The Outlaw Biker! I decided to do a tutorial on How to Fracture a quilt for the [Quiltweb](https://quiltweb.com) website. You can find [that tutorial here](https://quiltweb.com/how-to-fracture-a-quilt/). [![The Outlaw Biker Quilt](https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Outlaw-Biker-780x800.jpg)](https://scrapdash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Outlaw-Biker.jpg) Don’t forget to [sign up for the newsletter](https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f8adbd81bb8f6fac9fad95f)! Once a week, I send updates on quilt-related information I have found while wandering the web. This might be an inspiring article, a tip or tutorial I have discovered (or written), and occasionally exclusive offers & discounts as well as immediate access to the secret page of free patterns, guides, and printables. You can [follow my page on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/phoebemoondesgins/), or join the [Make Believe Quilters](https://www.facebook.com/groups/makebelievequilters/) group, too.