I have slowly been working on the Orca Bay Mystery and am no where near being able to put any blocks together.
My progress on the various parts are as follows:
Part 1: hour glass pieces - done
Part 2: blue strings - done
Part 3: black and neutral HSTs - finally done
Part 4: red strings - 30 partially done
Part 5: wings for hst's - half way cut - I have run out of blacks
Part 6: Ohio stars - not done - all red centres and black squares cut but have run out of neutrals
Part 7: not even close to starting
Part 8: a distant dream. I may just make a smaller version. I will see how it goes.
I wish I had had more time to work on my parts and keep up with the pace of the mystery. I also do not have the variety of fabrics on hand to keep it as scrappy as I want. I will make up all the blocks that I can with the fabric I have and see if I want to make it bigger. I will then go on a fabric hunting mission. I have not found the variety or even fabric that I like and would want left over in my stash so it has been hard to collect. I have not been to Northwest fabrics or the Fabricland in St. James yet. That may be a road trip later in the month. It has been fun working on regardless. I love how the blue and red strings look. They will make my quilt sizzle.
I am not going to post my completed parts on Bonnie's blog because I have no clue how to do it and I have not taken any pictures worth posting anyway. One day I will figure the ins and outs of this blogging business.
LONGARM BUSINESS PROGRESS
I have three tablerunners to finish quilting for a customer and I will work on the next one today. Hopefully I will be able to finish it in one day. The smallest one took forever to quilt because I kept having to change colours of thread and I was having trouble freehanding the circles for the holly berries. What is with that?
I will be seeing my next customer on Wednesday when I go to Darlene's for coffee so I will pick up her quilts then. I also have a quilt that will be coming in next week so I better get cracking. I am not going to call any of the other quilters on my waiting list until all of the above quilts are quilted. The pressure on me is too much these days. I mentioned to Darlene that I am going to wind down my business again for awhile and just take the occasionally customer quilt, when I can. I am finding that it is not fun anymore and more of a chore to quilt for others than it should be.
That is all for today. Keep your fingers crossed for me that I get those tablerunners done and out of my hair.
'til the next time,
