Anyway.
I did finally start the massive undertaking that is a king sized quilt. And all I have to say is that I must be crazy. Everyone I tell about my project looks at me like I’m nuts… So I must be.

The very day that we picked out and bought the fabric, I came home to find out that freaking Pottery Barn is currently selling “hand stitched” king sized “hawaiian” quilts for… TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!

WHAT?!!?

How? I just spent HALF that amount on fabric alone! And what about all the many hundreds of thousands of hours spent “hand stitching” those authentic hawaiian quilts? All for two hundred bucks? Again with the how?

I am so angry. Who would have thought an item in a catalog could tick me off so much? The fact of the matter is that I’ve lost my motivation for this HUGE project. I was operating under the assumption that a real hand stitched king sized hawaiian quilt would cost upwards of two or three thousand dollars. I was certainly motivated to save that kind of money on something that I’ve wanted for over six years.

But now? Now I’m not sure why I would spend possibly over a year making something that I could just buy for mere pennies compared to the money and hours I am going to be investing in the project.

The practical side of me is saying that there is NO. WAY. that Pottery Barn is selling true blue hand stitched quilts. There has got to be some loop-hole that they are using to be able to say that these quilts are hand made. I mean, who knows? Maybe these quilts are “hand stitched” in that an actual hand was touching the machine that was doing the stitching.

The part of me that needs the motivation though? That’s the part that is really scared that Pottery Barn is actually being on the up and up on this one. Maybe they did find people that are willing to do hand work for a fraction of a penny an hour. Maybe they just decided that they didn’t need to turn a profit on this item…. Maybe they are selling this item at a loss.

Yeah. Right.

Anyway. So here I sit. Trying to decide if I should continue on with this massive undertaking. So far all I’ve done is buy, prewash, and iron the fabric. Oh… and I’ve also have folded both pieces into an eighth.

I’m sure I’ll proceed… I just don’t want to right now.
It’s a shame I had to look at the Pottery Barn catalog this month.
Had I not, we would be having an entirely different conversation right now.
Probably about how excited I was about finally starting a project that I’ve been looking forward to for six years.