Last night driving home from work, Jim was telling me about everything coming up at his work in the next few weeks. They're having their Thanksgiving potluck this week, doing four weeks of Secret Santa (they draw names and give one small gift per week), and having an auction to raise money for their Christmas party. Jim plans to auction off his services in the form of smoked meat (the things that man can do with a grill!) That got me thinking about something he'd said way back in February or March and before I thought it through I heard myself asking, "Didn't you ask me earlier in the year if I could make a quilt to auction off? What was that for?" "Oh, yeah, I did. That would be a good idea. How much would it cost to make a couple of quilts?" Thinking he was kidding, I asked him about sizes. Nope, not kidding. He would like me to make a baby quilt and a lap quilt in the next two weeks.

Last night was spent wading through my stash and trying to decide what to make. I got slightly sidetracked and made a Christmas table runner. Just needs to be quilted. Told him if he doesn't want it for the auction, I'll either keep it or give it as a present to someone.

I have a bag of quilt blocks for a baby quilt, so that's half done. And I have a bazillion charm packs that are about to turn into a lap quilt or two.

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