Business and Dropping My Basket. . .

Kaleigh and I have been tossing around an idea to re-start my quilting business.  She could be a big help for me and we could do well, I think.  I'm not sure that she fully understands how much work it will be, but I'm embracing the idea.  We need to think about changing our sewing room arrangement to make things a little easier. 

Today I spent a lovely (no sarcasm) three hours at the bookstore while Kaleigh and her friend Cari went to the mall and shopped.  I thought three hours was going to be a VERY long time, but I was actually a few minutes late in picking them up.  I walked around the bookstore and found a bunch of books about omesteadng and sustainability, and several quilting magazines, went into the cafe and bought myself a $1.50 cup of coffee and sat and read for 2 1/2 hours.  It was lovely.  I took notes whenever I thought of something i wanted to blog about, or do in my classroom, or quilt, or anything I thought of to tell K about for the business.  Apparently I needed that.

I've been in a weird state of anxiety for the last few days.  Financially, I am having a rough time, and I've been trying to make a plan to resolve the issue, so I made some phone calls yesterday, and things are looking better.  I always love a plan of action.  I kind of call this anxiety "dropping my basket".  Where I'm not nutty enough to need mental help, but just enough to make me a little uncomfortable.  Anyway, I'm glad it's over, now I'm having another idea spurt. 

I've been working like crazy on my Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt, and the top is almost done.  I only have to add a blue row to the bottom, then the borders, then I'm ready to start the hand quilting.  REALLY looking forward to that!  I have missed hand quilting.  It used to be my best friend.  Hand piecing the top has provided me wonderful side effect that I will ned for the hand quilting.  A quilter's callous.  Now I don't have to do dishes anymore because I need that callous to hand quilt.  It's ugly, but there's nothing more fabulous to a quilter. 

I have plans to make another raised bed for herbs.  I have them in pots right now, but I want to let them get bigger, so I want to move them into a bed.  I also want to plant some more cherry tomatoes and maybe even some plum tomatoes.  We had some nachos last night--made by Kaleigh--with some of our heirloom Mr. Stripey tomatoes.  They were so good!  They are green and orange, with red stripes through the inside.  Yummy!  Can't wait to get more.