I've spent the past two months getting ready for holiday craft shows/shopping events. By getting ready, I mean making and finishing quilts and table runners. Mu

I've spent the past two months getting ready for holiday craft shows/shopping events. By getting ready, I mean making and finishing quilts and table runners. Much time has been spent hand quilting a lot of runners and I have had time to think about the parts of the process I enjoy the most and least and what I could be doing to challenge myself, identifying how to be better, etc. In my prior life--I was a public policy wonk and advocate/lobbyist--I had folks around who challenged and taught me. With quilting, not so much. It's been an interesting couple of years getting beyond "Let's sew and open and Etsy shop". . . It really has been in the past few months that my view has changed quite dramatically. I'm not a joiner, so not really interested in joining a quilt guild, but have found some folks who, in time, I hope can help me be better and do better creatively.