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Quilts I've Made

Today is the end of the world, right? At least it will according to some religious person from South Africa (there are so many end-times prophecies that I get these confused, sorry if I'm wrong about the source.) Must be the tenth or eleventh time I've gone through the end of the world, and the world kept going. Fingers crossed it's just another bunch of crap being used to bludgeon people with someone else's beliefs.

Some reassurance for those who are troubled by this latest prediction: 100% of the end of the world predictions before this one were wrong. There was another religious person who predicted the end of the world twelve different times, and was wrong every single time. My advice? Don't worry about it and live your life. Why worry about something you can't do anything about or stop? Living your life, which definitely will end someday, is much more sensible.

Anyway, since I don't believe it's the end of the world, I'm putting together an album of all the quilts I've made since I began taking pictures of my work. I'm not including smaller projects, more like wall-hanging or larger. I'm also not including quilts made by others that I've finished or repaired. This is just my work, and in most cases, my original designs and patterns. You'll also see a few quilts like this one I made from my old t-shirts following instructions from a project book, or variations on quilt patterns like Atkinson Design's Yellow Brick Road, which I've made about twenty times.

Right now I have half of 2017 through 2025 in the album here but there will gradually be more as I go through my photo archives and upload the pics of quilts past. I've been doing this for over thirty years now. :)

Added: It's 9/24 and golly, the world didn't end. Again. Not a surprise.

Added: It's 9/25 and nope, the world didn't end yesterday, either. Just in case you were giving it another day like the rest of the bludgeoned. Stop listening to these people, please.

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