A long quilt

Our garage door was letting in so much cold air.  

Why you ask? 

Just because there is A CAT DOOR cut in the bottom of it.

And because there is a gap all the way around it (see picture below).

And because there is a two inch gap at the top. 

So, our solution, when we first moved in, was to tape some cardboard over the cat door.
That isn't really going to stop any of the cold air.

We don't really have the money to buy an new door right now, but this thing was making the fireplace room and kitchen so cold.

Enter the long and skinny quilt!
These sheets have been sitting around my sewing room since 2009, when I found them on Christmas clearance. They have been waiting to be a back to a flannel quilt or two.

I chopped up the bottom sheets (the one with the elastic) and pieced them together to be about the door size.  It took me about a week to piece the flannel together, quilt it, and sew the binding on. It isn't perfectly square, but it is warm.

Jared made me the quilt hanger from two pieces of spare wood.