Starting fresh

After 8 months or so of blogging on my shop's blog, I've decided to combine that blog and my personal blog. My original thought was to keep the two separate so that I wouldn't confuse customers when I'm working on a personal project (i.e. I don't have the fabric or I'm making this up and no, I don't have a pattern) or bore them with details from my personal life. But quilting is a part of my professional and personal life, and it's just too difficult to keep up with two different blogs. So I'll be using this one from now on. If you arrived here via the shop's blog, welcome!

Our local quilt guild met a couple of weekends ago to make donation quilts - some for the recent flood victims and some just to have on hand. Everyone brought orphan blocks and fabric from their stash, and we got quite a few done! These are the few I managed to snap pictures of (or that I have at the shop to quilt - yikes!).

You can't tell if from this picture, but that's a dog fabric panel with some borders...
Simple squares, but very cute...
Sue's orphan log cabin blocks...
The picture blocks in this one came from a panel I had that made into a fabric book, but this panel was at the end of the bolt and cut so it wasn't a complete panel...
These are some of my oprhan blocks from when I first started quilting. I bought a Kansas City Star pattern book (can't remember which one, but I still have it at home) and some clearance fabric and went to town making blocks. Some of these blocks were my first attempt at using templates. They weren't all the same size, but I just whacked them off. I was so glad I still had some of the blue fabric at home; otherwise that block with the blue in the center would have looked pretty odd...


And a turning twenty made out of a fat quarter pack from P&B called "Beautiful Day."
As I said, there were more that didn't get finished, including one I started that weekend that I'll devote to its own post. For now, I'm off to work on my turtle quilt.