Why I am a Crazy Person and made a quilt for a 2 year old
Well, every year there is one project that has me up late and drinking even more coffee than usual. This year it was a quilt I started a few months ago and was still hand stitching the the binding to on December 21st.
Let me start at the beginning…. a few months ago I was shopping near my local quilt shop (LQS) with a friend and we decided to go in and take a peek. We wandered around and we fell in love with some beautiful fabric from Moda (my latest fabric favorite as you know). Well, I got the big idea that I would finish my second quilt ever for my friends 2 year old son, whom I love.
Well, let me tell you that one finished quilt does not make you a ‘quilter’. I’m not sure why I have to learn this lesson so many times but hand crafted gifts always take 10 times longer to complete than anticipated. I hope someone will learn from this mistake!
Now, I should say that the quilt did get finished, it was beautiful (although imperfect), and my friends did love the quilt and appreciate my hard work. Creating this quilt was, however, not the joyous experience it could have been, had I thought through the entire process ahead of time.
The quilt was about 25 times more work than anticipated and late nights had me thinking ‘how can I get away with keeping this quilt and not giving it away after I slaved over it?’ . So I should also say that it might be a good idea to keep handmade gifts a secret, just in case they do not go as planned. That way you can always scrap the project, put it on hold, or keep it if is comes to that!
