Thursday night, before I headed off to Texas for my cousin’s wedding, I quickly finished a quilted project that I’ve been working on for a couple months. Most of the reason this quilt has taken so long is that I get frustrated with all the mistakes. I kept repeating my mantra: The baby is just going to throw up on it anyway. Still, it was neat to see them actually use it while I was there.

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This is the first quilt that I actually ever finished, but it was sloppy. Next time, I will take Thomas’ mom’s advice and quilt it diagonally rather than with patterns. I tried to do little squares and criscrosses to match the cowboy theme and to disguise my corners that weren’t matched up too well. I also totally cheated on the border and made up the sewing technique as I went along. Next time I will be sure to use thread that will blend in more and learn an actual stitch technique for binding.

Other than that, I posted a couple photos from Thomas’ birthday last Saturday. After the wedding, my family took him out for surprise dessert and gave him a gag gift of a doo-rag for his new motorcycle, and a portable picnic kit made from the leftover plastic dishes from the rehersal dinner the night before.

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