Running Stitch

But WHY??!! WHY!!! WHY!?? Would you want to?

Oh right because you procrastinated (what?!) and now it is time to deliver, in person.

And that would be awkward with out the quilt, ya think?

Last week while in San Francisco we had dinner with Beth and Merideth of Housemade fame who we met when we were all wee baby bloggers on the Home Renovation circuit.

A while ago Beth told me she had always wanted to make a jeans quilt out of their jeans but had never gotten around to it.

So after a a flurry of emails, some of which pertained to the quilt, I opened the front door to an enormous box of jeans (I had encouraged Beth to cut the legs off the pants to cut down on shipping).

I started cutting squares immediately but quickly realized that this quilt would cost a MILLION DOLLARS to mail because hello, jeans, heavy. So we decided that I would bring it with me when I came in July.

Flash forward to the Saturday before Blogher when I had the sudden thought. Wait. It’s July?!!

So I took the day off, Scott ran the ship solo and brought me tasty morsels like Quilting cheese guy to keep my energy up.

I finished the top Saturday.

Sometimes I wonder if this will be the memory they have of me, sitting quilting amongs their bustle, and then I think….good.

I finished tying the knots with some help from Miami Mama (because ow, my fingers ow) Tuesday or Monday. One of those days…and then the binding Thursday right before I shoved it into my backpack with not enough underwear or sweatshirts for the arduous journey full of chilly winds and waiting ’round the airport in my future.

Ta Da.

I think they like it.