Treading in Dangerous Waters

OK...

Someone please talk some sense into me.

As much as I have been telling myself that my daughter's bed is getting too small for her - I actually had to face reality - the bed is not getting any smaller then the day we bought it. My little girl has started to suddenly sprout legs! I needed to do something to make her appear small again, as soon as possible!

So...this past weekend (during the beginning of the vicious ice storm that hit the area), my husband and I went out to the furniture store and bought Hailey a 'big girl bed'. We didn't plan on buying anything...we were just looking...I SWEAR! Alas, we were sucked in by the all powerful, inescapable 'President's Day Sale!'

...damn you Abe.

Regardless...I love the bed. It is amazing... certainly nicer then any bed I have slept in. We got the bed and the bookcase set only (hey as much as I love Mr. Lincoln I just wasn't going to get the dresser too). If we thought it was hard to get her to bed before...now she'll have all sorts of distracting stuff right within arm's reach!!

Um...good thinking on my part...?!?

While that alone might put me in league with the crazy folk, that is not the subject which is going to require the intervention....

besides...we already bought it, there is no going back now.

What I need is someone to prevent my overwhelming urge to hand-make her a quilt for the bed. I have been looking everywhere for just the right comforter for her room for months, and cannot find anything that I like. I have totally convinced myself that what I need to do is take the project on myself. "I could make it...yeah...I could..I'm sure of it! I know just how I want it to look!" I have it all planned out in my mind's eye but I have learned that part of my brain is a dangerous, dangerous place. My mind's eye has always had a serious case of beer goggles - it tells me all sorts of things that don't really match up to reality, such as:

"Oh you don't have that much to loose"

....or (as in this case)...

"You could SO make that yourself!"

This is the point where you...the blog reader...scream at your computer screen....."Really?? You didn't learn anything from your previous sewing attempts? You are just going to end up sewing something closed again! Do you really think you can handle a project that big?"

Yep. Absolutely. I even have the fabrics all picked out.

I can do this...I can...I've learned so much already...and...well...my mom quilts. That should count for something...right?

This is why I should never be left alone with the Internet when I am going though project withdrawal. At least the patterns I am considering are easy...I think. I can't wait for the Spring. I need to get outside, out of the house. I'm getting cabin fever and I'm trying to fight it with log-cabin quilt mania! Why can't I be satisfied with a nice table runner or place mat project?

I haven't alerted my immediate 'life-line' sewers...those on the 'front lines' who will be called the moment something goes wrong. Keep you fingers crossed that they will be able to convince me that a coaster would be a better project for me.

Stay tuned.