My Innocent Trip to Jo-Ann Fabric Store

I had decided to make three quilts before this coming May. Three of the wonderful teachers I worked with at Franklin are retiring and I thought it would be fun to do something special for them, since they played such a huge role in my life for 6 yrs. I had asked Julia what colors I should use and she agreed to come with me on the amazing adventure. I found a pattern that is quite easy and decided to use one pattern for all three quilts to simplify things. I know that sounds unusual, but I'm in a time crunch. :-) When we got to Jo-Ann's I showed Julia the pattern and told her that I was going to cut the pattern in half to make lap quilts. It proved to be a challenge to pick out colors for three quilts at one time. We started with the quilt that we knew which colors to use. We just had to find the right combinations. When we were happy with our selection we put those bolts on the bottom of the cart and moved to the next quilt. That proved to be slightly harder. We had found three fun fabrics, but had a rough time finding the fourth. Finally, we found it and moved on to the hardest of all. The third quilt is for someone who suffers from MS and things tend to move on her, so we knew we couldn't have any type of a pattern in the fabric. On top of that where the other two people are getting 5 colors, she is only getting 2 so that it won't make her dizzy. I pray that we chose correctly. After having made our selections we then moved up to take a number. We were number 14 and they were on 96. That means we got to stand and talk. When our number was called we stepped up and had all our fabric cut. Julia had to go, so I went and paid for it and then drove home. As I drove into my parking lot, it hit me. We had just bought double the amount of fabric that it called for in the pattern. Not only that, I was suppose to cut it in half, not double the pattern!!!!!!! I now have enough fabric for 12 lap quilts instead of 3. I should not be allowed in Jo-Ann's for a very long time or any other quilt store for the matter!!