| When my husband and I were first married, we had | | | | under a bed quilt covered in paramecium shaped |
| our first fight over a bed quilt. I was in love with the | | | | designs. On it went until finally we decided to buy a |
| luxurious, lacy quilt I'd had on top of my own bed for | | | | plain white down comforter for our bed to get us |
| several years, and he thought that something more | | | | through the winter, and then we would resume our |
| masculine would be appropriate since we'd now be | | | | fight about the bed quilt once spring came again. |
| sharing a bed. He wanted a bed quilt in dark colors, | | | | Luckily my mother in law interfered before we had a |
| with geometric shapes, when I've only ever slept under | | | | chance to separate ourselves into separate rooms. |
| blankets decorated with flowers and girly | | | | She is a quilter and she offered to design a quilt for us, |
| accompaniments. We eventually had to sort it out and | | | | using fabrics we picked out ourselves. The possibilities |
| move on with our lives because, as we would soon | | | | were endless. If you've ever been on a trip to a fabric |
| find out, there are so many more interesting things to | | | | store then you know how much there is to choose |
| fight about in a marriage to waste much energy | | | | from. They have plain fabric, textured fabric, they even |
| arguing about the bed quilt. | | | | have fabric made out of muppet fur. I knew we'd |
| We had to come to an agreement, somewhere | | | | have lots of options. |
| between lace covered roses and darkly colored | | | | When the day finally arrived for us to visit the fabric |
| geometrical designs. We tried to find a bed quilt with a | | | | store, we realized that while we both had individual |
| pattern we both liked but it was practically impossible. | | | | ideas about what a pre made bed quilt should look like, |
| Our tastes in bedding were so different that if I saw | | | | we also had our own ideas about what a custom |
| something I liked, I could immediately assume my | | | | made quilt should look like. In the end, we decided to |
| husband would think it was the most ugly design ever | | | | each create one side of the quilt and flip it on the bed |
| created. I liked checks, he liked stripes. | | | | every once in a while. And now our time is freed up to |
| I liked bright colors, he liked earth tones. I didn't mind | | | | fight about more important things like who left the |
| paisleys, he would rather sleep on the sidewalk than | | | | toothpaste gobsin the sink. |