This poor quilt was my first attempt at making a quilt using templates instead of strip piecing.  I made it as a teenager, so I'll blame its poorly pieced wacky irregularities on some rebellious phase I must have been going through at the time, because I appear to have forgotten everything I knew about making a quilt when I put this one together.

It couldn't lay flat if it had to, for a start.  The back is quilted to the top, sort of, but not particularly straight since I didn't know anything about machine quilting at the time, and I didn't baste it before doing what little machine quilting I did on it.  Maybe I didn't think basting was important, since I didn't use any batting?  And I honestly can't remember what possessed me to use a semi-stretchy, fuzzy knit for the back, except that it must have been what I had on hand. 

Needless to say, this is one of the few quilts I didn't give away as a gift.  And since I didn't take care of it like I might have done for a more well-made quilt, it has been used nearly to pieces.  It has holes in the top where the cats clawed it while playing "attack the feet".  Its colors have faded, and it has fabric paint spots on it from doing crafts on my bed in my old one room apartment, years ago.  But all things being what they are, with all the memories it has collected, this quilt that we affectionately call the "ugly quilt" is one of my favorites.