My First Quilt {& a Laundromat Adventure!}

I’ve been busy working on 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 & 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

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{taking a moment here}

ok…

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
(& in a pretty tote of course!)
what a dork I am!
… plunking 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 & the thrift store
with my cute little tote bag?}

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!)

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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!

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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?

This project was inspired by this pin from my beloved Pinterest

via here

p.s. I’ll share how I made her coming up in a future post!

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