The Crazy Quilt is Mended!

For this year, anyway.

Compare it to the last time I photographed the entire thing (2011):

My final mend, on 6/13 was an Old Faithful patch:

I was surprised that it was the last item I needed! (Yes, I can see the tweed has holes. Will mend next year!)

For more of the quilt story, here's a page indexing various Crazy Quilt entries

Linking with

Frédérique's Patchwork & Quilts

One Monthly Goal

March Madness for Menders

I have found not one, but two Mending/Sewing Challenges on Instagram!
Yikes.
My sewing calluses will become nicely developed over the month!

The first I found before March 1st, so I'm a bit more organized for it:

Here's the Instagram post:

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Ok here are your MendMarching orders! With a week to go (how did that happen?) As last year, feel free to adapt /screw with any category, and jump in and out as you please: the idea is to share & inspire, not to stress & depress. I think these are all clear/obvious? The first is to ease us in with a showing off of your supplies. 6 & 7 courtesy of mendpun queen @fie_derelsa --and day 15 is a special day... #MendAndMakeFriends is for @gatherwhatspills fabulous patch swap, so if you were playing along, this is when to post your patch, all sewn in. If you lack a patch, just do any friendly mend you like, obvs. Share this madly! Let's be mendfriends! #mendmarch #visiblemending #mendtheworld #darning #patching #slowstitch #slowfashion #handstitched #handrepair #lovedclotheslast #wellworn #wornwear #wabisabi #mendspiration #mendship

A post shared by MendyKate (@visiblemend) on Feb 22, 2019 at 9:02am PST

The second, which I just found a few minutes ago, is this:

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Here's a #miymarch19 heads up for you - the full list of daily prompts, for the 1st time this year has an overall theme which is SUSTAINABLE SEWING. ➡️ Myself and @dressmakerssocial will post each day's theme in the morning (UK time!!) along with some more info, ideas, explanations. At the end of each day we'll share our favourite 4 pics of that day. ➡️ If you haven't played before it's a month long photo challenge to post a photo a day to a daily theme, check out previous year's hashtags #miymarch18 #miymarch17, etc. If you have a private account though only your own followers will be able to see your pics rather than the whole #instasewing community! ➡️ As I'm going to be spending most of March relocating my life from Brighton to Sheffield we've decided to keep it simple this year and not have any sponsors - it's just for the ❤❤ of it and finding new sewing folk to connect with 😊 we're looking forward to meeting you all!!

A post shared by Wendy Ward - MIY Collection (@thatwendyward) on Feb 28, 2019 at 12:56pm PST

This one is more of a general sewing challenge, but since the theme is Sustainable Sewing, a lot of mending would qualify.

I'm going to go with #miymarch's 3/4 prompt: Recycled today:
"It's Recycled for day 4 of #miymarch19 Show us your makes using recycled materials it doesn't have to be clothing as long as it uses recycled materials ♻️ I'm looking forward to some inspired makes today"


I wish I could find this dress-that-came-from-a-skirt, I want to wear it, even though it requires some mending!

Old picture from a TAG reception. Note phone case matches art on wall.
Best guess is 2013?

Linking up with Patti's Visible Monday
Shelbee's  Sunday Showcase
Catherine's #ShareAllLinkup