Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

You will never believe what I am doing currently!  I'm trying my hand at making a rag quilt.  YouTube has numerous videos of how simple they are, and they would be if I could get my machine to stop breaking thread!! Ugh!  That is so aggravating.  Anyway, here is how I started. First I got myself a rotary cutter and a cutting mat.  I had some fabric scraps, and bought some of the 18x21 packets of coordinating fabrics made especially for quilting.  I ironed the fabric, cut them into blocks 5 1/2" x 5 1/2".  I also cut batting into the same size squares. I have not tried to stack the blocks in a particular pattern, I am joining them randomly, and will make each row by randomly sewing them.  No pattern whatsoever.  What could be easier.  I have determined one thing....if I make another one, the squares will be larger, and therefore fewer of them. I decided to sew 12 blocks per row, and will have 9 or 10 rows.  This will be the size ...