Ordinary Me: Q

Q: Quilts I'm sure this is going to be everyone's Q, except maybe if people live in Queensland or Quincy or happen to be named Queenie. If I had thought about it, I would have photographed the quilt I am working on--have been since one summer when I was in college I told my mother I was bored. She owned a quilt store then--or maybe she had just closed it and was jonesing to teach people. We decided I'd make a pinwheel charm quilt. It was blue and white. One day while we were combing fabric stores, we ran into a quilter who learned of my project and sent me 5" squares of navy fabric. My first exchange! Of course, these days you just have to go to an online quilting group to exchange charm squares or even some of the bigger fabric stores will sell them. But back in the day, you had to accost strange women in the store to get some of their fabric. ;) Nevertheless, the charm quilt was not finished. When I got a queen sized bed, I thought I should change it from a single to a queen, and the thought of collecting all that fabic (med to dark blue and non-blue light fabrics) made me shudder. Plus some of the squares are really, really ugly, as in not square. Maybe this should make the list of goals in 2008...