My first quilt was a crazy quilt and I had no idea what I was doing. I layer out the backing, put the batting over it and just sewed random patches over it, by hand, until it was all covered, then I bound it in store bought binding. My grandson, then 3 loved it, he still loves it at 16 and has used it every night since I gave it to him. I have over the years made him at least 3 other quilts but he still uses that crazy quilt, says it is so warm soft and snugly. My hand sewing did not hold up real well with years of washing and at least once a year I have had to fix parts of it for him. I just stick it under the machine and machine sew the edges that are coming unsewn. I've fixed it so much that I think all the patches are actually machine sewn now, lol. Any way, the message in this long missive is, USE IT, someone will love it.