The Plan!

My family hates it when I come up with a plan because it's usually something I think is just wonderful and Vince and Chad think it's really stupid. I asked yesterday how much time you all have to quilt and got a good range of answers. Mostly the responses, some on blogger comments and some in e-mail, fell into three broad categories.

• Mostly on weekends . . rarely during the week
• 30 minutes a day
• 1 hour a day

There were more than I expected who are in the same boat as I find myself -- I quilt almost all day every day. Part of my quilting is longarming for customers so that's really a job. Realistically, I can work on my own quilts 3 - 4 hours a day. That includes fondling fabric, designing, piecing, quilting or doing the binding. Since I need to learn to do scrap quilting, here's what I was thinking. How about I come up with some simple designs, one at a time, and do some basic instructions. There will be no yardage amounts given since we are working out of the stash. Five out of seven days . . Monday - Friday, I will post instructions that take about 1 hour to do. By posting the instructions five days and then skipping two days, it would give some time to catch up who don't have a full hour each day to sew. It won't be a mystery quilt because I'll show you the quilt in the beginning. Before you ask . . we all sew at different speeds. The one hour will be based on how long it takes me to do the sewing. Some will be quicker, some will take longer. No guarantees you can get it all done in 60 minutes each night. What do y'all think about that? I know not everyone can do it and if you can't or don't want to, that's fine. If you can't do it, you don't need to tell me you can't or won't but if you can do it, just let me know you're interested and if there's enough interest, I'll get started on a design. I have to make it first, the divide the instructions up into one hour increments so it will be probably August 14 before I can get the first one started. But . . hey, we're working out of our stashes so we don't have to buy fabric!!! Judy L.