To check and make sure I have enough cutter quilt pieces to use for next year's calendar project idea, I hauled out the bin and rifled through it. I think I have enough, but I also have some unusable, unremarkable patchwork pieces in my stash that would also serve. I took one piece of a presewn quilt that came in a thrifted lot of fabric and decided to try making one embroidered and beaded mini quilt in an evening. Rather than use this busy floral side, I decided to flip it over and use the blue underside. I let the idea come to me and just played with it. Here's the finished mini quilt, which took about 3 hours to make. This idea will take about twice as long as my crochet calendar mood blanket to make every day, and I probably won't have time enough every day to do all the embroidery and beading I did on this one. That's not discouraging to me; I want to do more quilting. My arthritis may become an issue, but then I can use the sewing machine ...