Alie Ward

And I will say I had a close relative who loved to knit until she found some mouse droppings in her knitting supplies, has not picked up a needle since.

So if you want to make quilts for animals, maybe not the wild mice, but you do you.

So you have some fabrics lined up, say, maybe you even have Lou Cain's Ologies quilt pattern on your screen that you downloaded for free, but you need to get like pumped first.

You

Do some shadowboxing.

Put on some loud music.

Grunt at yourself in the mirror.

You can scream, oh yeah, like the Slim Jims guy into a pillow.

Get inspired.

What did quilting listeners say about design inspo?

Okay, I thought these were great.

Jaganator said to take a black and white picture of your fabric choices to get a better idea of their values.

So this can help you balance out the intensities as you plan your quilt.

So plan it in grayscale.

Janganator, that's some good advice.

I never would have thought of that.

And Mary Toscano said the same thing.

They take photos of their quilts in progress and change the photo to black and white so they can look at the values of each block and how they relate to each other.

Geniuses.

Lauren Tenenbaum said, give friends and family a plain muslin square to decorate, right?