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Tadaaaa!! Behold, I have completed piecing my quilt!! Yes, I am working on a quilt. And no, this does not make me an old lady [or a dork....well...uh..]. :P It simply makes me.....well-rounded, and.....marketable, and....crafty, and......homemake-y, and.....COOL. That's right, I AM COOL! :D

[I actually finished it this past Saturday, but kept forgetting to post...]

This is my very first quilt. I started it September of 2003, but had to stop a month or so later due to holiday crazy busyness. It went into a nice plastic storage box never to be worked on.....until last week. I brought it back out and started working on it again with a frenzied pace. It seemed to take me forever, mainly because I had to completely relearn everything that two years had wiped from my memory. This "relearning process" caused me to do quite a bit of seam ripping as I put together several blocks wrong and generally made a mess all over the house with tiny pieces of thread. But, on Saturday evening, (after spending THE ENTIRE DAY working on it....I KID YOU NOT) I reached COMPLETION!!! Well, completion of the machine piecing part. The next step is the hand quilting, which will probably take a bit of time. I am kind of looking forward to the quilting part. I think [or at least I hope] it will be fun and relaxing. My favorite part about quilts in general has always been the "quilting"--all the neat designs and intricate stitching that, to me, make them so beautiful. Of course, this being my first quilt, I am not expecting great displays of stitching beauty to come from my hands..... ;)

So, that's my quilt. The "fall theme" is a result of me preparing to go through a Hunter's Education Course when I was picking my fabric 2 years ago. The back of the quilt will actually be this fall woods scene print that has deer all over it. Yeah. That's right. I am just that cool. haha ;)