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did the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future visit Jeff in his home?

why does your family have so many wet wipes?

a) the wipe ‘n clears are actually for glasses and computer screens, because apparently both nearsightedness and being a GREAT BIG NERD are genetic

b) my parents just moved, so they’re still unearthing all kinds of Random Shit, including, i kid you not, an entire sleeve of those malaria tablets that make you hallucinate and which were prescribed in 1993

i go out of my way to get that convo every time because i love being rejected by hot straight girls apparently

You’ve activated my trap card! /silly

So! First off my quilt! (Because I have fewer pictures and less to say about it)

It’s really hard to get pictures of because it’s about 7’x7’ 😅 I finished in about two weeks with my machine. It’s really big and cozy and soft and at some point I’ll figure out what closet it’ll be stored in

But my FRIEND’S QUILT!

It’s about 4’x4.5’ish and I added up approximately how long things took and it was about 147 hours (which might be the low end) and took the course of 4 and a half months of near constant work for when I wasn’t busy at my actual job or mandatory socializing stuff. Hell, I worked on making hexagons in my car before my shift would start even.

No one has been able to escape talking to me since July without hearing about this quilt. Not even all of my tables that I serve have gotten away quilt-talk free lmao

I’d gotten sucked into the Quilting side of TikTok and kept seeing this same sort of hexagon quilt and I just had to try making it myself. It starts with you cutting out circles and the way you fold/tack down the points turns the circles into hexagons and you don’t have any raw edges of fabric to deal with. Then you whip stitch the edges of the hexagons together to eventually become the overall body of the quilt. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to do a pattern or have it be kinda random and try keeping colors from touching themselves too frequently but my wonderful super big brained friend @centrumlumina helped me figure out a daisy pattern that would repeat and use the maximum number of hexagons I had available (and then another friend also helped me pivot to an altered version of it once we realized somewhere near the beginning I was off my a single side but I was in too deep to totally seam rip everything and I am kissing both of their brains and I am eternally grateful)

She doesn’t know I was working on anything and it’s been torture keeping it quiet from her this whole time since I started (July 2nd)! I’m actually giving it to her later today (she was going through a move and I didn’t want to give her another thing to worry about packing right when I finished it late November). She’s very bright and pastel and flowery and I just really hope that whatever life throws at her next that this quilt can just help remind her that she’s worth the effort and that she’s very loved.