I made a quilt!

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This is the first quilt I've made, so while it's a bit wonky, I'm very proud of it.

Good things about making a quilt:

- I could cuddle it while I worked on it
- it uses up vast amounts of fabric scraps that were too pretty to throw away
- now I have an actual quilt on my bed
- it was a really good pick-up-put-down project that I could do in lots of easy stages
- it's completely fascinating to stare at

Bad things about making a quilt:

- once it's assembled, it was huge and heavy and difficult to push through the sewing machine
- pieces of the same fabric call to each other and despite my best efforts I have found at least five places with adjacent matching squares
- now I'm all bereft! Though I did make a soft toy platypus today and now it is watching me beadily
- it's completely fascinating to stare at so my time going to bed or getting up has been greatly extended



The quilt hanging on the line


A close-up of the top


A close-up of the bottom


Now you can see my wonky stitching!




I definitely want to make another one some time, so if there's any experienced quilters on my flist, please give me hints!