The Rabies Quilt from "The Office"

In the show "The Office" Season 4, episode 1, Phyllis makes a quilt, or rather, she starts a quilt to aid the quest to raise money for rabies awareness. Her three squares are shown for a second or two, but from that, I was commissioned to make a quilt - to finish what Phyllis started.

Now, as I examined that screenshot, I wondered how it was that a person talented enough to make the appliqués look so good sewed the squares together with crude "X" stitches with the batting sticking out, but it is obviously a prop and very unrealistic. But, regardless, I made the quilt, adding the name of their race, and a couple other squares to fill it out.

Here are close ups on some of the squares and the "X's" in the sashing and borders where I attempted to make it look like the uneven stitches Phyllis did. Of course, right after finishing sewing all the "X's" (3 times each to make them more visible), it occurred to me that instead of having the "X's" touch on the top, I should have deliberately extended them from time to time to make it more wonky. Oh, well. What's done is done.

Some small loops around the words brought the extra fulness, caused by all the appliquéd letters, back under control. All in all, it looks like we wanted it to, the client was happy, so it's a success. If I'm ever asked to make another one, I now know how long it would take 50+ hours, plus quilting.