The Run Around! Part 1

Okay, I am still alive....at least for now (more info to come in a later Run Around Part).  Let me explain....

First of all, I know those of you who are reading this are saying, "Wow, she actually posted something!" But for those of you who didn't know, just before Thanksgiving, I got the great idea that I wanted to make my kids quilts for their beds for Christmas.  That's right, 4 twin size quilts!  That's finding material that matches for 4 different quilts, trying to figure out a pattern and just how much material I will need for each, not to mention that I literally have a panic attack the second I walk into the fabric store (there's just too many to choose from, and what if I don't pick things that match, and how much do I need, and my kids run around and destroy the store, and it's taking way too long, and now one of my kids has to go to the bathroom but they don't have a public restroom which is retarded, and I finally throw and bunch of material rolls in the cart and hope they somehow match.  Then get home and find out I didn't buy enough and I have to go back......and the panic attack starts all over again).

So for the next 5-6 weeks I spend measuring and cutting and sewing and cutting and sewing and sewing and sewing and then cutting some more.  Then I have to get the material for the back and I spend another entire day looking for XL sheets and end up back at the fabric store (for another panic attack), and they don't have what I am looking for so I go to another fabric store, (yet anther attack), and they don't have enough material.  I don't understand I am only buying 6 yards per quilt.  Not to mention they are merging stores in March so they are not restocking their shelves and everything is selling out.  

It's now almost a week till Christmas and I am just now getting the back done and trying to find batting (I got the last 4).   I still have to pin, bind, and tie all 4 quilts.  There is no way I can do it.  But still I work my tail off trying to get them done.

Now there are only three days before Christmas! I spend them letting my house go and the kids get to do whatever they want as long as they don't burn the house down, while I bind and tie all day long.  After day two was spend tying one blanket for 8 hours in one day and still didn't get it finished, I fell apart and knew these were not going to get done in time for Christmas.  Once I pulled myself together, I realized it's okay.  I was not going to spend my Christmas Eve working on these quilts knowing that even if I worked all day long they were not going to be finished, I relaxed and quit. 

I then had to finish making Ella's stocking.  So I worked on that and had it almost done when my needle broke on my machine (it had taken a toll also and was done).  Thanks to my wonderful SIL, it got finished.  (That's a whole story in itself, to be told in a later Run Around Part)  

We did some fun things over the Holidays and with all the movies we got for Christmas and the help of my awesome husband we got two quilts completed.  But still have two to go.  But now I don't have to be so stressed over them.

Here is a picture of the pile where everything is sitting and waiting to be finished. And the two completed quilts.  I have told the two that are done that they cannot have theirs until they are ALL finished.

Stay tuned for The Run Around! Part 2  to come later (hopefully sooner than two months from now) ;)