Normally, as a former English teacher, I wouldn’t write a title like that, but it seems to fit, since that’s what I wanted to write about for my guest blog.

I have three blogs, you see, and some people think that’s crazy, but it works for me. While I’m a pretty creative person (okay, I’m really creative), I do like order to some things. Blogging, like my book library or my DVD library, is one of those things. Whenever anyone asks me my favorite pastimes/hobbies, I always say the same three: reading, writing, quilting. And because my anal retentive brain won’t let me write about all three in the same place, I have one blog for each favorite hobby.

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Greetings everyone! Here is something about me and making quilts in my corner of the world. Cheers from sunny Bulgaria! It is a beautiful country with the oldest processed gold on the planet and talented people.

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I am currently almost 6 months into my self-imposed challenge to go an entire year without buying any fabric. Am I crazy? Maybe a bit. But I realized that every time I bought new fabric, I tended to use it in a project. My stash, collected over years and years was going mostly unused. I hardly ever checked it when I needed a certain blue or green; it was more fun to go shopping and buy something new. You know they say that most of us wear 20 percent of our wardrobe 80 percent of the time. I think my stash was much the same. 80 percent of it was just sitting there, unused.

Around the same time that I made this realization, my husband and I became empty nesters. With both kids in college I had more time to quilt, but a little less expendable income. Making better use of my stash seemed like a perfect solution on all fronts.

A few "friends" have commented that I need to continue to buy fabric to help the economy. However, many of them are doing their part and mine, too, by buying yards and yards of gorgeous cottons on a regular basis.

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Thank you Michele for allowing me to be a guest blogger! I was thrilled when I found out what day I got to blog!

I thought of all of the things I could say about my love of quilting and what draws me to this wonderful hobby, I finally decided that I would share with you all a little bit about what inspires me.

This is kind of a long story, for those of you who read my blog you already know the whole story. For those who are not regular readers at Ginny’s Quilts today, you get the condensed version!

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My name is Cathy McKillip and I have been the owner of Wish Upon A Quilt for the last 9 months. After spending 20 years in the corporate world (healthcare and software development), I decided to take the plunge (I’m also a scuba diver) and follow my passion-fabric, quilting and sewing!

I am excited that Michele has given me the opportunity to be a guest blogger because I’ve met so many wonderful people in the quilting world and I’m hoping that through this post, I will meet even more of you. For those of you that I have not had the opportunity to meet in person, a little background about me and how I wound up owning a quilt shop.

Despite learning to sew at a young age, I had not picked up a needle and thread again until 2002. My mom, a quilter, was receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer and needed some help with cutting fabric for a project that she was working on. Well, with one zip of the rotary cutter, I was hooked! All of the great feelings that I had from sewing and playing with fabric came rushing back! I was in HEAVEN!

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hey yall.
i’m rachel from p.s. i quilt

i’m SUPER excited to be a guest blogger on quilting gallery. {thanks michele.}

let’s see…where to begin…
it all started when i was 16 in home ec class.
i thought that our home ec teacher was the bomb.
she was young, hip, and could totally hang with us and our humor.
{she definitetly gets credit for my domestic goddess status. lol.}

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