Finally, It's Done

My mom gave me a new quilt book for Christmas. It looked intricate, but kind of fun. I had a new granddaughter due in a little over a month, so I picked out a pattern from the book, and the week right after Christmas bought the fabric. I have to say I love the fabric. I was all set--a month until the baby was due, lots of time to sew. I got right on it, and cut it all out.

Then I got pneumonia.

Still, I persevered, even though I was sick, trying to sew about an hour a day. Then, after I had done about three rows on each of the squares (which took days), I was ready to throw the whole thing out. It was indeed intricate, and it was no fun at all. I hated the process of making it.

But as I said earlier, I loved the fabric. What to do? After about three hours of trying to figure out how to salvage the quilt, I hit upon a plan. I crossed my fingers, and hoped it would work. I really had to do some scrambling to use what I had already cut in a completely new pattern. I trimmed up what I had done, added some different rows, and voila, it turned out all right after all.

Diane turns eight weeks on Saturday. She'll receive it on Sunday. She'll never know it was late. She'll also never know she almost never got this quilt!

Finished: March 24, 2010

Size: 37 inches X 44 inches

Pattern: Bundle of Joy (of which the making was not) from Positively Pineapple by Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith (p. 14)

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My own invention (a scramble to save the fabric)