This is a log cabin quilt that I made for my mother. The way things were going, she's lucky she got it! Here's the story. I bought fat quarters to make a wall hanging. After showing the blocks to my mom, she liked it, so I decided to make a throw instead. I had nine squares done, but needed quite a few more. Well, I ran out of the darkest fabric, and couldn't find any here. I put out a call for help on RCTQ, and was lucky to find some. I finished the next 7 squares. BUT, before I was finished with the second set of squares, I bought a new sewing machine. So I finished them on a new machine. Big mistake! The squares were a half inch larger than the first nine. Okay, not a huge problem, I'll figure something out. So I started another set, (12 to be exact!). I sewed wrong sides together, instead of right sides. Damn it! Throw those out, start another 12. Damn it, I did it again! Threw those out, decided to wait until the next morning. Started over, did the first two logs just fine. Went to put the first grey log on, and wouldn't you know it, I put it in the wrong spot! Threw those out, almost started smoking again. Finally, after checking very carefully, I got the next set of 12 done correctly, (or so I thought!) Because these were done completely on the new machine, they were a half inch larger then the second set, and a full inch larger then the first set. DAMN, DAMN, DAMN! I hate this quilt! Okay, I'm going to finish it. I only have 11 more blocks to go. I started the last ones on June 30th, got to the first set of grey logs, and once again, sewed them in the wrong spot. (Ya saw that coming, didn't ya?) Threw them away, started a different quilt. After finishing my stack-n-whack above, I went back to working on this one. It was going pretty well. I was down to only three blocks left. Can ya guess what happened? I ran out of one of the orange fabrics. I absolutely was not going to go buy a yard of fabric when I only needed one strip. So, I just made four blocks using no orange and put them in the corner. Okay, tops done. I get ready to make the backing, which needed to be pieced, and Damn it all! I'm three inches short! I really wanted to get this thing finished, since I was going for a visit in a couple of weeks, so I made a trip to the quilting store, bought the fabric and that, as they say, was that!