Where to Start Now?

 

I've spent this morning reading thru some of the old posts and I was drawn into the memories of days past.  I want to read them all!  There are pictures here that have been lost on old computers and now I've found them again.  There are stories near forgotten of holidays, children and grandchildren and a tall son gone and back again...of blizzards and fires and cats and friends.   I deleted many posts that dealt with my old Etsy business and my working with Cheryl True in her shops, as they were mostly marketing and those days are over for me.

This blog has been buried among  my pile of "man I'm burned out" things, like my quilting was for so long.      So, now where to begin with a new blog??? All that went on in between I will never be able to document...but maybe as we go along some things will sneak in beside the new. 

 I think I have been using Facebook for all my pictures etc., but FB so public that now I very seldom post anything personal there.  So reviving this blog should be fun for me.  I don't even care if no one ever reads it.

So I guess I begin where I am...which is in my basement sewing room in Omaha where I seem to be stockpiling scraps to make quilts for charity. 

 My Omaha Charities are The Least of my Brethren and Project Linus.  I am trying to NOT buy new fabric but rely on what is given, what I have amassed and what I can find at the thrift store.   My charity in Texas is The Rainbow Rooms of the TX department of Family Services and perhaps the city of Mercedes if that can be set up in a trusted and organized way.

 I also will be making a stack of fun quilts for myself, creating a stash of quilts from which anyone asking for a quilt can choose.  Gone are the days I make one for someone and have them not appreciate or even care about it.  Thanks to my friend Pam, for the idea of just making what I like and making them available to those that ASK  instead of trying to figure out what someone might like.

I have gotten to the point that I no longer purchase patterns, but try to figure out a pattern on my own.  The creative juices are flowing.  I have a pattern " Fireworks and Pinwheels" that I totally created myself and am in the process of writing and publishing a pattern for.   I will be teaching it both in TX and Omaha (next spring).  

The small quilt pictured here  is an example of mixing a few ideas together for a quilt.  No written pattern, just ideas.  A mixture of "crumb" blocks and a square in a square type block,  I was going to give it to Project Linus, but I am now planning to keep it at least for a while as I want to recreate it and may need an example.   This one is a great way to use crumb blocks!