My very first quilt was done like this. I had all this fabric left from making clothes for myself and my eight kids, plus stuff from my sisters' sewing. I thought about it for months, while milking cows, washing clothes, kneading bread, etc. Finally I got started just adding fabric to fabric of any shape. I took each seam to the sewing machine and put a line of decorative stitching over it in black. Well, it didn't take long before I realized I had an "elephant". Then I started putting a few pieces together and adding that; all with the decorative stitching on each seam. A few times I found I had created a "bubble". What to do? I took my scissors and sliced the bubble down the middle, lapped it over and had another seam to which to add the decorative stitch. My son and his wife used that quilt to death and asked for another. Now I make these crazy things in squares and put them together with sashing. Think Freedom Quilt.