Raggedy rag...

I have wanted to make a rag quilt with some leftover homespuns for a while now -- it's been on my mental checklist of projects since I bought a bunch of them during a homespun frenzy last summer. And ever since AmandaJean put up her tutorial for a Ragged Squares quilt back in October, I've been wanting to make one of those, too. They have a great comfy look to them, and appear as if they would go rather quickly.

And I'm all about fast these days: "get 'em done and get 'em out of the house" is my new mantra.

When I came across the bundles of fat quarters at the end of March, a thought hit me: what if, in the process of sewing down the squares for the ragged edge quilt, you were quilting the squares at the same time? Quilting as you go and killing two birds with one stone, so to speak?

The beginnings of yet another Kate experiment: a Ragged Edge Rag quilt

I do not know if this is a good idea, or if it can even be done well. I do not know if the quilting will hold or if it will fall to pieces the first time I wash it. It's probably not anything new, but I have nothing to go by, because I've never seen it done before (maybe I just don't read enough blogs!).

What I do know is that with this stretchy, twisty fabric you cannot do this very well if you can't lighten the pressure on your walking foot (the Singer squished and distorted things into shapes very unsquare, and I ended up doing a lot of un-sewing). I had everything cut and ready to go, but had to wait until Bernina was back in the house to continue.

In spite of these unknowns, I have begun to forge ahead, making sandwiches of homespuns and batting and stitching them together to realize my vision, foggy though it may be.

I'll keep you posted.