a quilting life bom2023

Secret Agent Mystery and More! from The Modern Diary

Here is the key to my Secret Agent Mystery.

We made a pocket as part of the first mission.

Everyone is doing fun posts with their agent names, so here is mine!

Here is the second mission, completed yesterday.

And here is my second mission post. As you can see, Ros decided to join in the fun and do this mystery too! Dr. Kathy is also doing it. Super fun!

I also managed to finish the Cuts and Bolts mystery for 2023. Love how it came out with my controlled scrappy choices based on the border fabric.

I also got ...

added by Andee 3 months, 1 week ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , cuts and bolts mystery , secret agent modern quiltalong 2023

My Quilting Mojo is Going Strong! from The Modern Diary

Clue one of Indigo Way is complete. Clue two in progress here.

I finished up clue two yesterday...just in time for clue three tomorrow.

Kathleen Tracey Winter Mystery clue one.

And clue two!

Kim Diehl Double-Dipped Mystery Stitchalong clues one, two and three are done.

A Quilting Life BOM--last block is done. I picked out the sashing and border fabric too.

I need to make two more stars for tiny cornerstones. They are in progress.

added by Andee 4 months, 3 weeks ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , bonnie's indigo way mystery 2023 , kathleen tracy , kathleen tracy winter mystery , kim diehl double dipped mystery , kim diehl quilt , winter mystery

Halloween and Indigo Way Fabric Picks! from The Modern Diary

Hazel wore my daughter's Little Red Riding Hood costume for some of her Halloween activities this year (she was Wonder Woman too). So fun to see her in it. Hannah wore this one when we lived in Maryland and she was almost three. This year we stayed home and passed out leftover Halloween goodies from when I was teaching. We had quite a few kids.

I cleaned through a bunch of Kathy's sewing stuff and since she is not sewing much these days, I added the fabric to my sewing stuff and sewed up her partially done top ...

added by Andee 5 months, 1 week ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , bonnie's indigo way mystery 2023 , family memories , halloween , kathy's mystery quilt , paper piecing

Ghosts and Witches! from The Modern Diary

Here is the next BOM for A Quilting Life. Keeping all caught up!

Hazel told me I needed more Halloween decorations so I whipped up a couple ghost pillows. I will send one home with her.

Then today I decided I needed one to match the little ghost who was a quilt quilt! So I sewed with Becky and Barb and got this made today.

Last week I quilted and bound it and Hazel has been loving it. Has napped with it, used it to play with her beans, etc.

Today I also paper pieced this witch which has been ...

added by Andee 6 months, 1 week ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , ghost pillows , halloween , paper piecing , sewing with barb and becky , the ghost who was a quilt quilt , the little ghost

September Sewing Homework! from The Modern Diary

Aqua is the color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge for September. Four blocks in two different sizes.

Also did the next block for A Quilting Life's BOM.

Here are all the blocks for that so far. Looking forward to it coming together.

I also got the binding made for another quilt and it is half attached. Hopefully today I will get the other half of it done.

added by Andee 7 months, 2 weeks ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , rsc2023

Two Wedding Quilts, Two BOM's, Two Grandbabies! TOO BLESSED! from The Modern Diary

Now that I have a table in my library/office I have really gotten into puzzles (and audiobooks). Here is a quilty one I made last week.

Here are my A Quilting Life BOM blocks. Keeping up with them!

This is my Dakota Farmer Rainbow Scrap Challenge block and below, more of them. I have many of these blocks in different colors and sizes and am looking forward to seeing them come together into quilts. I think next year I am going to do Bonnie's new Morning Glories paper pieced pattern. I enjoy paper piecing but like the idea ...

added by Andee 8 months ago. under 35th ave bom 2017 , 35th ave. bom , 35th ave. bom 2017 , a quilting life bom2023 , family memories , gardening , grandbaby hazel , grandbaby indie , rsc2023

Princess Crown and More! from The Modern Diary

Our daughter and son in law got us a long weekend together in Door County for Christmas and we picked up this little goat for our Christmas ornament this year to remember the trip. We did many fun things with Hazel that we had not done when Hannah and I went five years ago, including the goat parade in Sister's Bay. We did play a new game called Mantis which we really enjoyed. We took the long way there because Mom and Dad (now in Marshfield) watched the dogs. We played Nine Golf the night we spent with them ...

added by Andee 10 months ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , bonnie's princess crown , family memories , trees

A Whole Lot of News! from The Modern Diary

For some reason I do not think this Kathleen Tracy sampler ever made it to the blog after I quilted it with a baptist fan and bound it. Love how it turned out.

Managed to do the next block in A Quilting life's BOM before the move.

Made some of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks before and some after the move in orange.

We bid on SIX houses before finally getting our forever home! After we closed we spent a few weeks making treks over and putting things away and each weekend we painted. The library/office room is ...

added by Andee 11 months, 1 week ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , family memories , kathleen tracy , lori holt , lori holt farm girl vintage , rsc2023

Some Sad News and some Good News from The Modern Diary

My Uncle Dan passed away this past month. He flew to Arizona for a Spring Break trip and collapsed in the airport. It took a bit for his body to come back to Wisconsin, so last week we had the funeral. Combine that with my Mom's health declining (she went in for chemo and changed her mind since the prep caused another heart attack) I decided to go be with the family for the week. I tried hard to pace myself so I would not get worse again this summer as I did last summer. Here is my uncle ...

added by Andee 1 year ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , family history , hawaii sunset bucket list quilt , kathleen tracy , little blooms , mini quilts , red button quilt of the month

Valentine's Mini Mystery and More! from The Modern Diary

The reveal of the Modern Quilt Mystery for 2023 is out. It is awesome. We are to keep it mum until March 3rd. Here is my clue before the reveal...and you may notice that the next picture has my half circles changed around by direction and some of the colors too.

I realized that I had some too similar colors on both halfs of the quilt blocks. I may need to redo more as I lay it out, but have not had a chance to do anything with it since Friday.

I added another row to the Sparkling New ...

added by Andee 1 year, 2 months ago. under a quilting life bom2023 , ktracey mini valentine , mqsmystery23 , sparkling new year mystery , tea party myster

More Mystery Progress! from The Modern Diary

I decided to participate in the Modern Quilt Studio's mystery quilt this year. The fabric pull is very scrappy with two piles of fabrics in darks and lights....here are a few pictures of my pull. I have already added more to this too but you get the idea. If you are doing this and do not want to be spoiled for the first installment, skip this post.

Here the first clue..done but not photographed real well.

You can see some blocks are light and some are dark. The second clue is out and so far I have ...

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