???? Years in the making

Well I finished this quilt this morning!!!!!! I don't even know how long I have been working on it. Well I can't really even say working on it, cause most of the time it has been stored in my closet.

When I still lived in Washington my mom and I joined the quilting thing at my church. We picked out some fabric that we liked and gave everyone in the group pieces of it to make a block. I picked out butterfly, frog, flower, and sky material and let everyone add other fabric that matched to make a 10" finished block. My mom did the same thing but with cat fabric.

So I got like 15 blocks back, and they were all so cute. Then they sat in my closet for the next 5 years or so. I would take them out every now and then and look at them or show them to someone, telling them how I planned to put them all together and finish it....SOME DAY or some year. Well I guess this was the year. One day about a month ago...I just started working on it. I had forgot how fun it was. The last time I made a quilt was while I was pregnant. It was for my friend who was getting married. It was a huge quilt, so it was pretty hard and time consuming. I really wanted to get it done before Luke was born, but of course I procrastinated and I ended up rushing to get it done like the last month of my pregnancy. Which was very hard with a big belly. Can you picture it.....big belly women crawling all over the floor pinning and cutting and ironing. So I guess what I am trying to say is I forgot that it can actually be fun. Especially under the right circumstances. With this quilt I was feeling no pressure (from myself) on getting it done fast or even caring how it looked when it was done.

First I had to make sure all the block were the same size, but they weren't, they were all off a little so I added some fabric around all of them to make them 12" blocks. They I layed them all out on the floor to see what way looked best....Then just got to sewing, pinning, quilting, and putting the binding on, and today I was done. I am actually really happy with the way it turned out. I am not really sure what to do with it now that it is done. It will not be going on our bed....to girly for Joe. Guess we will just have to wait and see if we ever have a little girl. Hopefully she will like it and want it in her room. But for now I think it will be a good quilt to use when I am sitting on the sofa cold and need a blanket wrapped around me to keep warm.

It is a pretty neat quilt. I like to look at each block and see who made which one...since most of them put their names on their block. It brings back lot of memories of each person!!!