I am not new to quilting, but new to posting about it. I am working on 4-5 projects at once and it is good to see I am not alone.
Speaking of alone, I went to a quilt show locally on Saturday and couldn't find one person to go with me, so I went alone! It was WONDERFUL. I found I could linger and piddle. I took pictures of the 2 quilts that really touched me, and discovered how very similar they were. (samplers, retro fabric and traditional patterns---hand quilted!
I found I could talk myself out of buying fat quarters, and go through every single one of the patterns without feeling rushed or bored.
Then I went home exhausted and called a couple of girlfriends and gloated about what they had missed-win/win!
I spent all last night (3 hours+) going through a giant bag of 1 1/2 squares of fabric I recently bought at a yard sale and sorting them into colors and using zip lock bags to store them. I even got my husband involved, telling him it was like a jigsaw puzzle.
I need some patterns for 1/12 squares that are random colors.