Finishing Danielle and Jared's Quilt...Finally!

Hmmmmm....finally got Danielle and Jared's quilt top sewn up. It is really pretty if I do say so myself. She wanted royal blue and white and so that is the only colors I used, except for one piece of red I used on the front that I didn't really plan. I don't know what the pattern is called or if it has a name. Danielle had pinned a picture on Pinterest showing a quilt and so I figured out how big to make the pieces for the quilt. I had lots of interesting times setting the pieces together but finally got the top done.

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I was ironing the sheet for the back of the quilt and got to the last square foot of the sheet and found a little tear. I didn't make the tear because when I took the hem out it was chain-stitched and I was very careful to only cut the end of the hem and then I just pulled it out. I think it was done when they were taking the sheets out of the box to shelve them or something.

My temper got me when I saw that little tear and I grabbed the sheet, crumpled it up in my hands and kinda screamed/roared a while. Julie was here and she said she was surprised I didn't rip it to shreds. Yes, I do have an awful temper. Most of the time I control it just fine anymore, but when I can take it out on an inanimate object and I have a lot of anger stored up I just let it go!

I called June, who was going to do the quilting on her quilting machine for me and told her I found a tear and wouldn't be bringing it up that day after all. I was soooo disappointed.

I thought about taking it back to Walmart but I had already taken the hem out of it and they would probably think I made the tear when I was taking the hem out. I knew I would probably have to argue them about it to get them to take it back. I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend the extra time going back, getting another sheet, taking the hem out again and ironing another one. I didn't know what else to do though.

That night we went to a ballgame. On the drive there I just kept going over and over in my mind what I could do with the quilt. I had appliqued  a row of words on the front of the quilt that read "Always Kiss Me Goodnight" and on the first "A" in Always I had to take out some of the stitches. I had made a tear in the fabric right beside the letter. I would have had to take out all the stitches around the letter and chance more tears so I decided to cut a heart out of red fabric and position over the tear. It looked really cute so I thought, well, maybe I could put a patch on the tear on the back someway. When I got to the ballgame I went over and was telling June about it all and I asked, what about putting....and at the same time, she said....you could patch it! OKAY! A word from an expert is always encouraging!





I came home and decided to use some of the material I had used for the front to patch the back. I decided to put a row of patches across the top of the back.

It has been a long, hard trip for me to get this quilt finished. I am still not sure whether I am a quilter or not. I really don't like to sew much, but I do love to create something that only I have made. I know that I would like to make the kids and grandkids a quilt apiece at least since I have started this quilting madness, so by the time I get all those quilts made I will either enjoy it or be stark raving mad. Pictures of the quilt to be added when it is finished.

And here it is:

 It is so much more bright blue when you see it for real but it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself...

Maybe I'll do it again.