I'm holed up on day of 5 of the flu from hell and since I'm probably going to die, I want to make it known that The Quilt is done. The quilt that was never going to be done, is done.
I fell for this quilt pattern hard and pieced it about 7-ish years ago. So long ago I can't really remember, but I know it was before Bubs hit the scene. Originally pieced with a bold floral on a black background for the border which is now gingham check, I put up my quilt frame and quilted about 1/3 of the way when I discovered that the black floral border was fading to a sickly pink from sunlight. It was awful. I think I wept bitterly, but I'm not really sure. It sat on the frames untouched because I wasn't sure how to remedy the problem, or rather, I knew very well the remedy but couldn't bring myself to undo all that work. And then we moved so I ripped it off the frames and wadded it up on a shelf.
This year I decided it was going to be fixed or stuffed in the trash. I unpicked all that hand-quilting (painful!) and removed and replaced the border. And started OVER.
If I wasn't dying, I would be doing a triumphant jiggety jig.
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