My First Quilt {& a Laundromat Adventure!}

Update:

I'm excited to announce that I've opened a little shop where you'll find cozy, cuddly, wonderful quilts all ready for you!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/NorthernCottage

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This is a post about the adventure of my first ever quilt made from some soft flannel.  Here is my rendition:

I normally wouldn’t be drawn to oranges but that was THE one alternative to the other choices at our one local fabric store.  All other choices were baby-ish (I’m stressing the ‘ish’ in that word) & there wasn’t going to be a care bear quilt in this cottage!  sorry if you love care bears – {they kinda scare me!}

And now that I’ve put the quilt pieces all together – the orange has 

drawn me in.  It definitely has a cozy factor.  I sewed it up in just a few days (working on it here and there) and then…as recommended for rag quilts 

(so as not to clog your washer with the straggling rag bits)…

I took it to the laundromat....(poignant pause)

so I hadn’t been to a laundromat since college – it was… well… interesting -

The clientele (with their many garbage bags of clothes) were eyeing me up & probably thought me a little odd bringing in my one little quilt (and in a pretty tote of course!) what a dork I am! 

I plunked in my $3 dollars in quarters for the wash and $1.50 for the dry.

(I know I AM frugal but that seemed a little high priced!) 

If I were still in college I’d sooo be broke doing laundry at those prices! ok maybe it’s because it’s been 20 years since I was in a laundromat 

(did I just say that – how could that be??)

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I had planned on getting the laundromat load wash started and then setting off to run some errands 

{la la la la la – can you see me skipping...to the library and the thrift store {with my cute little tote bag? of course!}BUT…as I was walking in, there were some customers yelling that someone had stolen their clothes from their dryer.  (what? – ewww who would do that?)  This is the NICE laundromat 

(really it was – clean and just fine but you know!)

Anywho…… So I just stayed there forever watching my little quilt go around and around and around (I HAD to stay there for fear that my little quilt would be stolen!)  THERE was a plus side however – 

free wi-fi!

yay!

If you follow me on pinterest, you may have noticed 18 billion new pins being added during my laundromat lock down!

so – in the end - it was all good!

ok back to my quilt…a couple more shots of my new baby

in all her frayed  ruffle-y ragged-y goodness!

a perfect lapsize

* for road trips

* for reading time snuggling with the kiddos

* for (what else?)blogging on the couch!

hello!

What do ya think?
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Chat soon ♥ -

NORTHERN COTTAGE

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