Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Patching things up

That picture is of my "watching TV" quilt. (It's not actually crooked, I just took a poor picture of it.) I don't remember whether my grandmother made it, or whether my mom made it. Regardless, I've had it for a long time.

Most of the squares you see are made of a pretty sturdy material. However, one set of squares (the squares just inside the dark pink circle) are a thin cotton. Over time, they have ripped away from the darker pink squares, leaving small holes all around the quilt. Today I sewed them up.

While I was doing that, I noticed that there were some stains on the quilt, so I washed it as well. It's now clean and ready for me to use again.

6 comments:

  1. It will be cool enough to use the blanket soon, won't it?

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  2. Believe me, it already is. :) We're in the middle of a week of rain, and it's quite cold out. (Not freezing, but the kind of weather where you definitely need a jacket to go outside.) I turned the heat on today, actually.

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  3. Our heat came on for the first time today - it's really cool here. However, I miss cuddling under a blanket with TV - our apartment is way, way too hot all winter. It's a regular beach blanket bingo over here.

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  4. Just in time for the new tv season.

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  5. Sydney, I am lucky that I have never lived somewhere that I couldn't control the heat. If anything, I tend to keep the house cool, so my blanket gets lots of use.

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