Why I don't post very often

Mostly because nothing all that exciting happens. I could write about the quilts I make, but who wants to read about that? Maybe to liven things up I could occasionally throw in an update on the doily I'm working on.

Anyway, this quilt you do have to hear about because I started I think 4 years ago and finally finished it last week. I made so many mistakes following the pattern that I think it pretty much qualifies as an original design at this point. But I do love the way it highlights my inability to select colors that go well together...In fact, the other day I was working on a different blanket, one for the baby, and Jerel said "Hey, that brown actually goes with that blue!" I always think things will look good together, but it rarely pans out that way.

In my defense, one reason this quilt doesn't have any color scheme to it is because I wanted to use lots of fabrics from old projects, clothes, etc. For example: You know how moms of preschoolers sometimes make their kids wear matching dresses to church, especially on Easter? Somehow my mom missed out on that and always regretted it, so when we were teenagers she made us matching dresses for Easter one year. Except of course they weren't done in time for Easter, so instead on some random Sunday me, Tab, Theresa, Mom, & Elise (Tab's daughter) all come into church wearing matching dresses. And of course since mom was the organist we always had to sit in the front row. Ya, it wasn't embarrassing at all...anyway, so I cut up that dress and put it into the quilt. It also has some extra fabric from my wedding dress, a shirt of Jerel's that I cut up (which I may have neglected to mention to him), and some other important fabrics. So even though it's not nearly as cool as the quilts my mother-in-law makes, it's meaningful to me.

Jerel is mostly a good sport at learning about quilts. Sometimes, though, he doesn't cooperate. The triangles around the border are called Prairie Points and Jerel thought that was a silly name because they have nothing to do with prairies and prairies aren't pointy anyway, so he renamed them Pennsylvania Rows instead...Because that makes SO much sense...

Anyway, now that you know the history of the quilt and I've even explained Prairie Points, I think it's become clear why I don't post very often.