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Rose Marie and I have finished Round One on our new Round Robin quilts!

You can click HERE to read more about our personal challenge.

Here’s a reminder of what I started with:

And this is what Rose Marie added to it!

I must say she did not have an easy job, given the color palette I started out with. I would have gotten stymied right out the gate, but it didn’t deter Rose Marie one bit! I’m amazed at her choice of background fabric — it’s a wonderful choice!

Here is what Rose Marie started with ...

Here we are again . . . September 23 . . . That magical day when there are only 100 days left in the year.

Time for me to make another list of “100 Things To Do in the Next 100 Days”.

I usually do three of these lists every year, but this year, I only did two. I had so many leftover projects on my first list, I just decided to keep chipping away at it until today, when I will make my final list of “100 Things . . . ” to finish out the year.

You can read about some of my other attempts at this; for ...

Back in February, I told you about my guild’s current mystery project we had going on, The Happenstance Quilts.

I also showed you two options I had for doing mine. Well, I chose the Christmas option, and used this for my center block:

I’ve never made an actual red and green Christmas quilt, so I decided to turn mine into a Christmas quilt. And can you believe, I’m not done with mine yet? Shocking, I know!

But I am getting closer. I just have some appliqué to finish up, and then I can finish the top. Then ...

Approximately 23 years ago, my friend, Rose Marie, and I decided that we wanted to do a Round Robin quilt.

There are many different iterations of how a Round Robin can be set up, but we wanted the kind where you start with a center block, and pass it around to other group members for them to add to it, and then eventually get it back.

We briefly discussed trying to get a larger group together, but we had only just joined our guild, and didn’t really know many other quilters in our area that well yet. So we ...

In prep for our summer challenge, we all have some homework to do!

• It could be a small quilt top, a couple of blocks or other WIP. 
• Please keep the combined size to about the size of a tea towel or less.
• We will do a brief show and tell before drawing numbers to divvy them up.

I can rise to a challenge, particularly and most especially when I am told that it can't be done. When visiting a precious vendor booth at MidAtlantic Quilt Festival I saw a small wall hanging displayed, it was called "Courtyard Garden" and the star units were made up from diamond and kite shaped pieces. I fell in love with it at first sight and inquired about the pattern. I was told that it

I can rise to a challenge, particularly and most especially when I am told that it can't be done. When visiting a precious vendor booth at MidAtlantic Quilt Festival I saw a small wall hanging displayed, it was called "Courtyard Garden" and the star units were made up from diamond and kite shaped pieces. I fell in love with it at first sight and inquired about the pattern. I was told that it

Another finish!  Yeah!

In the fall of 2015, the day guild (Near North Quilter's Guild) had a challenge using a pizza box.  Instructions were inside the box on what to do.  We were urged to sign up and have fun.

Where did the pizza boxes come from?  Karen K went to a pizza store and bought a whole bunch of empty boxes.  They must have thought she was a little crazy. 

I signed up and my focus fabric was a 1 metre of blue fabric (quel surprise!) that we had to put inside our pizza box along with one ...

You guys are chock full of organizing ideas, funny stories and admissions, and comforting statements about how I’m so not alone in my disorganized state! And it’s good to hear from those of you who are ahead of the game — it gives me hope! Thank you all for playing along and chiming in.

As of noon yesterday, my big pile and my cutting table didn’t look any better than they did the first time I showed them to you. In fact, the cutting table looked worse, because I was dragging stuff out of the pile on the ...

Time for the final task of this year’s Final Countdown — that went fast!

You have all been working hard! I can tell from the comments, the blog post links, the photos I’ve seen, and the emails I’ve been getting — and just let me say right now, I’m sooo comforted to know that I’m not alone on any of this! Whew! You are all my kindred spirits in the quilting world — haha!

For our last task, I like to take the physical labor out, since the first two are generally hard work — at least for me ...