So I made my nephews some cuddle quilts for their birthdays– which are this weekend. Jonny is turning 14 and is really into the patriots, so I made him a Patriots quilt. Josh is turning 10 and I made him a crazy quilt with bright colorful quilt sqaures. I finished Josh’s last week and finished Jonny’s today.

They had some dog hair on them because our Boxer is shedding like mad crazy, so I decided to wash them before I gave them. I don’t usually do that because soaps and softeners are a personal thing…

Josh’s blanket is still beautiful. But Jonny’s quilt???? The fargin’ thing ripped to SHREDS! The seems fell apart! I used a duck fabric which was supposed to quilt nicely but instead completely unraveled and made the seems fall apart!

I want to cry. I just want to cry. Nevermind that this one was one of my biggest quilts and was sooooo pretty. I cut the heck out of my finger with the rotary cutter when I was cutting the squares. It was weeks ago and yet look at my poor finger! I wasn’t even going to complain about that because the quilt came out soooo lovely. Poor me. Don’t you want to kiss my stub?

And this is all I have to show for it….

It looks like my seams were too short, but I did my typical quarter inch seems. I guess the combo of cheap Wal Mart fabric with Duck fabric just weren’t the right fabric choices.

I’m sad. Someone give me some love.

All better now…