HAPPY NEW YEAR! IT'S 2012!

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,