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Time Well Invested

Have you ever completed a project and then looked at it and asked yourself why?  Why didn't I take the extra time to add that extra border? Or I wish I would have switched out that color to the other one that looked better?  Well, I'm happy to say that I won't be asking myself those questions when I'm done with Matt's quilt. I have made a bunch of tshirt quilts and each one is unique.  I make them that way on purpose. I add that extra decoration or embroider that special something on it.  To be honest, I was really dreading embroidering the soccer saying onto the quilt border.  I knew it would take hours to do and it has. I've probably logged ten extra hours adding that phrase.  But now that it's almost done, I'm soooo happy that I did! Speaking of embroidering or appliqueing, I wanted to share a little tip I learned out of sheer frustration!  After appliqueing the first "O", I had to use a needle to pull up the center of the "O...