Long Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away Something Was Fishy

Okay, so maybe it wasn't in a far away galaxy but it was long ago and basically a different lifetime.
I started this project back in 2010 while I lived with my grandparents on the West Coast. When I first started the project I intended it to be a blanket for a twin sized bed. I figured I would be living out there for quite some time and this was a project that I could constantly be working on to keep me busy in my down time. (I love being able to just pick up a project and work on it a little at a time as I have opportunity).

As time passed and I realized just how much work it would be to make a gazillion and ten fish shaped pieces and then how much longer it would take to sew them all together I scrapped my original idea and decided to make a baby blanket instead. But as time continued to pass I decided, once again, that I did not have patience for that and finally just sewed together what I had made and declared it a rug and called it finished.

And I used it as a rug for many years. However, it always bothered me that it did not have a backing and that it never quite laid flat (a flaw in the pattern I used). Well, now that I am nearly 40 weeks pregnant I decided it was time to finish that silly project I started so very long ago. So while my toddler played beside me that is exactly what I did yesterday.

I took out some leftover fleece fabric I had from another project and did a lot of measuring and sewing to get it the size of the rug. Then I had to measure out where each fish would be tacked to the fleece and mark it and tack it. Then I had to cut out the curves on the edges and whip stick it all in place.

Then came my least favorite job, putting the binding on. I didn't have enough of one color so I just pieced a few together (this whole project was created using leftover scrap materials so I figured it would complete the "look" anyway). I did an terrible job putting the binding on and I didn't really care, I just wanted it on there. It was quite difficult to get it all even and smooth around all those curves.

So now I can say that I actually finished this project that I started literally 8 years ago. I am pleased that it is finished and I am even more pleased that it won't be so stretchy and lays at least a little bit flatter than it did before. No matter how badly a project is done it is nice to say it is completed. Now I feel accomplished and ready to go on to the next project in life (hopefully giving birth! haha)