T-Shirt Quilt

I made a t-shirt quilt. (Notice the lack of enthusiasm.) It looks pretty awful. (I'm not just saying that either.) However, it did teach me a few important lessons.

1. It probably wasn't smart to try to make a huge, queen-sized quilt as my very first solo quilting project.
2. It's really hard to get stretchy t-shirt fabric into nice straight squares.
3. It's important to check your bobbin thread frequently, or you might run 80 inches of fabric through your sewing machine before you realize the bobbin thread ran out after about 2 inches.
4. I might never be one of those amazing women (like my Mom and Grandma's) who seem to effortlessly create wonderful and beautiful things.
5. I like small, simple projects that I can whip-out in an afternoon (not big, complicated ones that sit and stare at me for weeks).
6. It takes 47 minutes to unpick 80 inches of fabric after you've sewed a row on backwards.
7. Sewing machine's are wonderful, but really annoying at times.
8. A quilt can make you cry and laugh hysterically all at the same time when you try to explain to your husband why it looks the way it does.
9. Quilts are still very useful, even if the rows aren't straight and the mitered corners are not exactly "mitered".

Who knew a quilt could teach me so much?!

Here's a picture (but don't look too closely please!)