Super Mario Quilt Goodness (Originally posted on MySpace on Jan 18th, 2007)

For those of you that don't know...my mom is a HUGE quilter...huge quilter in the same sense that you could say Aaron is a HUGE tom waits fan or Patrick is a HUGE fan of Asian girls...you ge the idea...anyway. Everytime we go to Mom's she's got some amazing new quilt to show us. Really great stuf very intricate and color and beautiful.

I always sully her handiwork by suggesting she make a video game inspired quilt. She sort of scoffs and says something like, "who in their right mind would want such a thing." or something like that. I told her that I see stuff online about people who sell their video game related crafts online for BIG BUCKS.

Just today I saw one such post on Kotaku about a sweet super mario brothers quilt. Turns out this lady made it. Maybe with the right kind of encouragement I can convince mom to make me a sweet


Simon Belmont or


Firebrand the Gargoyle from Gargoyle's Quest and Demon Crest .

Just to tide us all over here's a picture of the Mario Quilt:

As Borat would say, "I like that. I like Sex."