I'm starting this blog so I can participate in Chookyblue's Churn Dash Sew-a-long. I love reading Quitter's blogs and now I'm part of the community!

 Before we get to a few pics of quilts, I would like to share a few things I've learned since the stem cell transplant:

Use your new fabric. Use it while you still love it. I used to buy fabric and then save it for that great project that never happened. New fabrics now go into current projects and I love using them. I loved them enough to buy them and it makes me happy to see them being used.

Life is too short for dull rotary cutter blades. Ten packs of blades are relatively inexpensive on Amazon, far cheaper than buying them individually at your LQS.

Ok, so here a few quilts that happen to be on my phone, the rest I don't have pictures of at the moment but I will. I promise to share. For future reference, I will put picture descriptions under the pic.

This was made just because. I saw it online somewhere and loved it. I cut the strips wider (2 1/2") and made more blocks for a bigger quilt than the one I saw. Made with fabric from stash and some new fabrics purchased just for this project😀. Probably started in the dead of winter when I wanted to make something with my brightest and most cheerful fabrics. Cotton batting. Finished in 2021.

This 36 patch was made as a graduation present for my cousin. Made with mostly stash fabric and a few new purchases just for this. The 36 patch block is relatively simple and quick to make. For those of you who like technical details, the blocks were made with 2 1/2" strips which made a 12" finished block. Cotton batting, machine quilted on my longarm.

Both of these quilts were made with fabrics fron my "other stash", my main stash is mostly so called "Civil War" fabrics, 19th century reproductions and shirtings, I call them creamies.

I guess this is it for my first blog post ever! I hope you enjoyed it. I expect I'll get better at writing as I go along.