Quilt 'n' stuff

This quilt I'm making continually defies the laws of physics. I measured every part multiple times, yet no part matches up to any of the others, top, bottom, or batting. I washed it and dried it on high heat for over three hours, and it came out of the dryer nice and dry, only a couple of small wet spots! ... and is now uniformly wet again, somehow. I washed it while safety-pinned (before actually sewing and quilting it) in hopes the cotton batting, which is supposed to shrink significantly and was confusingly much larger than the package indicated, would shrink. It didn't--but the rest of it did! Though I've washed and dried those fabrics individually before, and none of them are supposed to shrink, regardless.

I really thought after I pieced the thing (which went surprisingly quickly and easily for such a large task) I was through the hard part, but no, the hard part is evidently just starting. I tell ya, every quilt and item of clothing is equally trying as every other item of like kind. If it doesn't come early, it'll come later.

In other news, I had a remarkably bewildering day on the internet, some amusing, some horrifying, but with a similar surreal vibe as the quilt re: physics. I'm still reeling.