HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

First post of the year.  Hopefully I will post a little more often in the future.

I spent most of the day squaring up my Celtic solstice mystery quilt units.  Bonnie Hunter posted the reveal as a surprise so I made up two of the blocks to see how they looked.  I may put it together like someone posted on fb instead of the Quiltville setting.  Someone else posted a great border treatment as well that I may steal.  My units are all in a storage bin waiting for me to get going on the top, hopefully I can work on it tomorrow.

I put all of the fabric away and sorted all the scraps into their bins as well.  I feel good now that the mess has been cleaned up.  I need to get back to the appliqué so that I can it ready and quilted for the quilt show this spring.  Better get busy.

I also want to make a list of UFO's that I want to complete this year.  I say it every year but I want to try to not buy any more fabric this year unless I need it for borders or backing to finish up a project.  this is the year of using up my scraps.  I like the wonky stars pattern that Bonnie is working on, that should use up a lot of 2 1/2 inch squares and scraps.  I also want to work on Tumalo Trail and get rid of those little squares.  Good luck to me.

Happy stitching

Good Minus 31 Celsius Sunday Morning.

Woke up early because I have been sleeping on the couch since Christmas Eve and my hip is protesting.  DS may have found an apartment and occupancy is immediate so hopefully I will have my bed back sooner than expected.  I am also going to buy new girly print sheets for my bed to celebrate.  I hope it sticks this time.

I am waiting to see if DH wants to brave the cold and go to church this morning.  If not I plan to go downstairs and work on CS.  Yesterday we had blizzard like conditions with wind chill warnings so I worked on CS for most of the day.  The colours of parts 3 and 4 can't help but cheer a person up.  

Here is a photo of what I have been up to.

 

I feel like doing something quiet right now, as it is 8:06 a.m., so I think I will cut out the pieces for clue 5 then I just can sit and sew when the mood strikes.  Oh boy is my sewing room a mess.

A photo of the mess on my cutting table.    My plan is to get all my scraps cut and sorted before I start any new projects.  I do need to finish Winter's Song for the quilt show and The Thelma Wynn project should be starting up again in the new year.  Busy, busy.

Back at it,

Happy stitching.

Working on clue #3 of the mystery.

Testing my new iPad to see if I can post pictures right to my blog entries.  Here goes.

These are bits and pieces of clue 3.

It will take some getting used to, I can tell right now, but how great is that to be able to post photos right away instead of pulling from camera downloads.  This is the best Christmas gift ever!!!!!

Clues 1 and 2 above waiting to be sewn into the quilt.  I should be finished clue 3 this afternoon, 100 of the squares are sewn into clue 5 and 100 are sewn into pinwheel blocks.  I need to start the four patches today or tomorrow, then I will start clue 5.  Yeah! I am catching up.

Better get back to it.

Happy stitching.

Boxing Day Coma

We are having a nice Christmas so far.  Our DS stayed over Christmas Eve and Christmas night and may be coming here again after work tonight.  It has been great to have him here.  He is not getting along with his roommate and is finding things difficult.  He is welcome to stay here until he can find somewhere else to live which I hope will be by Feb 1.    

Leftovers for supper and soup started simmering for supper tomorrow (with homemade noodles).  Yum.

On a quilty note, I finished up Clue 2 and started Clue 3. I am mixing up the methods for construction of the hst's.  I am making some using the magic 8 method and some by using the easy angle ruler.  Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to finish them up and start on the four patches.  Clue 5 should be posted tomorrow morning so I will still be as behind tomorrow as I was today.  Oh well, it is not a race. I am finding that I do not have much variety left in fabric choices.  I sure do not want to buy any more fabric if I don't have to. 

Photos tomorrow as I am too tired to mess around with trying to add photos tonight.

Happy stitching

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

I have not posted for some time because I have been crazy busy.  I finished up some client quilts and made a table runner for my mother for her birthday which was yesterday.  I forgot to take a photo, oops.   I have also started the Celtic Solstice mystery quilt offered by Bonnie Hunter.  I will post some photos this week of my progress once the Christmas festivities are over with.  My favourite day of all is Boxing Day as we do not go anywhere, supper is leftovers and we just veg out.

I have to figure out how to add a photo from my iPad to my blog before I post any pictures.

Happy Stitching

Posting some pictures of completed quilts and my beloved Charlie

It has been some time since I blogged so I thought I better post some pictures of my completed mystery quilts before I start the next one.  I have talked a friend into making her own mystery quilt.  She has fabrics in the colours from a stash her sister-in-law gifted her so why not.

Anyway, here is a picture of my RRCB, on my bed, in my own room.

It looks great on the bed.  The curtains are from Ikea and the rag rug was made by me by using the 'French knitting' method using a four pegged knitting spool.  It took mega yards of fabric to make.

Here is a picture of my Orca Bay completed.  It is a bit too small for the bed.  I do not know why I did not double check the size before I quilted it.  I guess because I still had my bed stuffed into the office and did not have any room to turn around let alone think.

You can see bits of RRCB peeking out underneath and it does not go over the bed on the far side very far.  It did turn out quite nice anyway.

Here is a picture of Charlie getting ready to go to Tim Horton's for morning coffee.

He has to take his dinosaur for the ride.  I love him to bits.

Anyway, back to house work.
Happy quilting.

It is the middle of September already!

It has been ages since I last posted.  The summer has sped by like no ones business.  The weather has been absolutely gorgeous and should continue to be mid 20's for at least another week so spending the day in the basement is not the way to go.

I have not done the machine quilting that I had hoped to do but I have not wasted the summer.  Charlie and I have gone on a lot of good walks and I have played in my flower garden more than I have in the past years.  I have enjoyed that.

One of my missions for the summer was to use up the leftover fabric scraps from last winter's 'Thelma Wynn' project.  I have been going great guns this past week and  I have managed to cut up scraps for two scrappy baby quilts and organized the pieces into something fairly nice.  I also was playing with some navy and yellow bricks to make something that looked nice and also used up all of the fabric and I finally came up with something.  I am not using the yellow because it just screamed ugly at me.  I managed to cut enough bricks for two smaller sized tops and I will see if they need a border once they are pieced.  I took a trip to Fabricland to see if there was anything there to go with the yellow flannel but there was nothing.  I think a trip to Berry St. is in order but I am in no hurry as these quilts don't need to be done until the spring.  I hope to use up most of the scraps by that time.

I bought some small colourful plastic bins to organize all of the scraps and hope to do that tomorrow afternoon while everyone is snoozing.  I hate having a mess to wade through every time I want to work on those baby projects.  I want to make baby bibs with all of the scraps that I cannot use in the quilts.  I saw some samples in Pinterest and thought that would be a great idea to use up some of the pieces.

Pictures of the tops next post.

Happy quilting.