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The theme for this blog hop is Call Me Crazy. Last time the theme was “Crazy”, I did a Stack N Slash quilt. This time around I thought I would show a quilt that made ME crazy.

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The Inspiration

Every year my friend Laurie and I make a raffle quilt to benefit 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 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.

Laurie Brings Me a Challenge

She found a 35″ x 44″ quilt panel of a motorcycle, called Live to Ride.

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.

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…