All 25 Old Town blocks are assembled. I think the design looks good this way but the sashing, which I have yet to make, kicks it up several notches. I will persevere.
I've begun something new.
These are big blocks -- 17" finished -- and that 8-1/2" center square called for the jumbo Kaffe flowers.
My One Monthly Goal for January ...
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Stevens will be 85 on January 18. Can you mail him a birthday card? If you don't have our address, indicate that in your comment and I will PM it to you. Five years ago he was quite surprised to get so many cards. This year he's alert but he's declining, so now is the time. THANK YOU!
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I'm trying a variation to the traditional Hoppin' John. It's a recipe from the Washington Post: Jollof Rice. In addition to the black-eyed peas it has brown rice, canned tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, onion, garlic, tumeric, and thyme. The peas are simmering now (with salt pork) and smell delicious.
On Thursday Zion Woman's Club members helped with the Elf Network. The bags contain sorted Christmas gifts, personalized by age/gender for each family. Bags are numbered, people present their number and get their bag. It was very efficient.
We did nothing to observe the solstice but now there will be a minute more daylight in the morning and in the evening. I love this poem. A friend said she rereads Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series this time of year. I'd like to revisit them but there are so many other books in the queue. . .
The tree is up.
The boys are back. (The big one never went away....)
My mother started our nutcracker collection in the mid-1980's with one of the twins on the mantel (#2 or #10) and later with #5, #6, and #8. The others came from estate/garage sales and TJMaxx. They're all German.
I try not to acquire more Christmas decorations, but if I come across German nutcrackers at good prices I will indulge.
The November stash report shows that I didn't indulge much compared to earlier this year. Fabric IN: 60-1/4 yards, $80, average $1 ...
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Then the
Canadian Quilters ~ 2024 Mystery Quilt-Along
is for you!
All Information and the First Two Blocks are available in the link above.
Are you sewing along?
My idea of a yummy oatmeal cookie has dried cranberries,
white chocolate chips and walnuts in them,
so I would add red to my cookie fabric.
What would you add?
I have not decided if I will sew along.
I have sew many projects.
I may have to bake Oatmeal Cookies this weekend, though.
May you have a happy quilty and yummy cookie ...
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Look at the upper left of the photo. That dot is a bald eagle. He's got his eye on a disabled duck in the lake. Gulls were doing their part to chase the eagle off. [Taken after the Friday estate sale.]
I was going to post on Wednesday. I was going to post on Friday. But things happen.
To make a long story short, I've been figuring out how to adapt the household layout to S's limited mobility and particularly to his advancing dementia. He wrenched his knee last week so going down to the basement family ...
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Hi, my name is Melva and I am a sucker for a fun Advent Calendar. My love for them began as a child. We had a calendar with a Christmas tree and small pockets that held ornaments. Each day one of the small ornaments was added to the tree.
Photo taken at the state park. I stopped on the way home from church but I didn't take a walk!
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I've made many of the Quiltville mysteries. I was greatly disappointed in two of them Grand Illusion and Rhododendron Trail) and skipped their immediate successors, Allietare and Chilhowie. Those turned out to be designs I liked.
I have a hoard of South African indigos but ...
read moreHappy Halloween Quilty Friends! Today post will be as short and and sweet as candy corn, one of my favorite seasonal treats. If you've never had candy corn and cashews together, you need to give it a try. It was my momma's favorite fall treat. I was leery about the combination at first but it's wickedly addictive!
My guild's mystery quilt for this year is all sewn. I am not going to put a border on it. I am looking for an appropriate backing so I can get it done to show at guild.
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The final clue of the guild mystery quilt came in and I was able to lay it out. The paper copy showed a square. I don't know why, I hate square quilts. Maybe because people are rectangular, not square. I stopped subscribing to Block magazine because most of the quilts lately were squares. I like the colors I picked not knowing what the quilt looked like. Relief.
I pondered with some graph paper and added a top and bottom row which I think finish it off better and makes it a rectangle. Win-win. Now to find a backing. Not ...
It's been a long time coming, but I'm very pleased to advise that my Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt from 2018 is finally finished. It's called Good Fortune.
I like it, but I wouldn't say that I'm in love with it. I did learn some useful lessons along the way though;
- beware of mystery quilts. This isn't the first time I've said this, but I think I started this quilt before I really learnt my lesson on Jen Kingwell's Marshal mystery quilt.
- if you're going to change the colours or layout, be ...
read moreI may have OCD.
Doing a mystery quilt is really hard for me. I need to know what color is going where, what the pattern is, etc., etc.
I've only done one mystery quilt in the past and I have to admit that I really ended up loving it. It's just stressful while I am making it because of all the unknowns.
Well, I am jumping in again.
We needed 1 yd. very dark; 1 yd, med dark; 1 yd dark (I'm already losing my mind), and 3/4 yd medium. Then there is the 5 yards ...
read more Progress on UFOs and other stuff is being made, but I wish I had superpowers for just one day to get it done. The mystery quilt from Alycia, Dakota Inspired (A12) has been sewn for a long while, but I finally got it quilted over the weekend. I made the binding, which is glued on now, and hope to get it sewn. As soon as the quilt was trimmed off the longarm and hit the floor and I got my camera, the newest inspector was already on the job.
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| Binding made, now glued, ready to sew |
In my previous post here I shared my photos of my fabric choices for the Bonnie Hunter Chilhowie mystery quilt which started on Black Friday. This was my post wedding project to help me transition to the next stage of our adventure on the road.
I haven't kept up with the clues (my normal) but have been very amazed at the reveal. This is Bonnie's quilt:
- mystery quilt
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