Quilty
Stages of a Quilt:
See pattern.
Stalk fabrics.
Buy fabrics.
Debate on how fabrics look together.
Stalk more fabric.
Decide that first fabric was right, stash additional fabric purchse.
Hope husband doesn't notice.
Cut fabric.
Cut MORE fabric.
Realize that if you'd been doing this on the table instead of on the floor, your back probably wouldn't hurt as much.
Curse softly.
Sew first blocks together.
Take dorky picture of first blocks.
Sew LOTS of blocks together.
Attempt to lay them out in a pleasing pattern.
Spend two hours trying to lay them out in a way that doesn't make your eyes cross.
Give up and just sew them together willy nilly, because really, all of those patterns together isn't going to just magically look soothing.
Decide that's how you wanted it to look in the first place, dammit.
Sew together backing.
Let someone convince you that you can machine quilt it on your own machine.
Start quilting.
Think mean thoughts about overly-ambitious quilty friend.
Finish quilting.
Realize that you don't have enough of any one fabric to bind it.
Decide that since it's already such an eye test, you might as well bind it with random scraps you have left over.
Cut strips from scraps.
Sew into binding.
Attempt to lay quilt down in living room to pin binding down for sewing.
Quickly jump out of the way when your husband screams because you are blocking the TV during one of the biggest games of the year.
Sew binding onto quilt.
Flip and handstitch to backing.
And handstitch.
And handstitch.
And handstitch.
Finish handstitching.
Take pictures.
Bask in glory.
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