Eccentric

 

I'm trying to get caught up again on posting about my latest projects. Since I have decided to spend less time on Facebook, that should give me more time for more important things. And not so important, like my blog.
Why am I spending less time on Facebook? First, I found that I was wasting a lot of time scrolling through Facebook. While I enjoy keeping tabs on my friends, most of this time is really non-productive. And lately, I have been seeing increasing posts from pages that I am not following. What are they doing in my feed? I don't really want to follow a police station in New Jersey, or other ridiculous and irrelevant pages. It's really getting annoying when there seems to be more of them than posts from the people/pages/groups that I do want to hear from. And the ads and the reels - some of which are not just annoying, they are offensive. And stupid. And then there are repetitive posts about the current political situation, which get stressful after awhile. And the puzzling comments that I sometimes get when sharing something in a group. The most recent one that I found was when I shared this quilt in a Facebook quilting group: 

One of the commenters said, "It's nice, but you didn't follow the instructions." And then something about "It's fine if that's what you want". What?!? I really have no idea what she meant by that, or why she even felt the need to comment. Did I need her permission to do it my way? The only thing I can figure out is that I put the dark fabric where the light fabric was in the pattern project. 

Wonderland from Fabric Cafe's "Make It Christmas"

But that is NOT not following the instructions. That's a design choice. Or maybe it was the fact that I didn't use Christmas fabric, which is also a design choice. Or that I used fabric 3 instead of fabric 2 for the first border... And that's not the first time I've gotten a backhanded compliment and other puzzling and annoying comments on my posts. That's one of the reasons I have reduced the amount of things I share in groups. But now I think I will just stop altogether and only share my projects with my Facebook friends. 
But back to the quilt this post is supposed to be about. I have both a niece and a nephew that live locally. They are cousins, not siblings. For my niece's birthday, I gave her the Christmas Sweaters quilt this past year, which had a minky backing. When my nephew saw it, he informed me that the next time I make him a quilt, "and I know you will because you have so much fabric, I want it to have that soft, cuddly backing." So that's what he got for Christmas. Peter likes loud colours, so that's what I pulled from my stash. The pattern is called Twinkles, and it's found in the book Make It Christmas. However, because the main block is the Eccentric Star, and because it is a rather eccentric quilt, I just called it Eccentric. 

I used Flying Paisley for the quilt design. 

This picture is funny, and illustrates the fact that even experienced quilters make mistakes. Fortunately, I caught it before sewing it into the quilt like this.