Here's what happened to me . . .
One of the women in our small vacation community who likes to craft, too (knitting and quilting) comes to see what I'm working on, so I show her the LWR (Lutheran World Relief) quilt tops I'm sewing. Sometimes I try not to show her things because she always has ideas about how I could do it better. When I showed her the LWR quilt tops, she didn't say they were nice or anything, she said "You know what you should do . . . " and proceeded to tell me that I should talk the quilting women at church into making quilts for Veterans instead of for LWR. She kept sort of harping on it, and in fact, I have made lap-size afghans to be donated to the VA as well as quilt sqares to donate to an organization that makes quilts with them. So finally I asked her what she was doing for the Veterans . . . (nothing) . . . After she left and after I fumed about it for a while, I went to her place and challenged her (sweetly suggested) to put her actions where her mouth is . . . so we decided she would purchase patriotic fabric, I would do the piecing, and we will set a quilt sandwich out on a table at our community potluck in August for the people at our little trailer park to help tie. It's a lap quilt and I'll make a label for the back that people can sign. Here's the pieced top (Warm Wishes), and I'm glad to have had the inspiration!