11 years ago
Just a reminder that there WILL be Quilt-Cam tomorrow night, Wednesday Dec 4th at 9pm Eastern Time!
Lots of emails asking when, and I guess I did bury it at the bottom of some post a couple days ago that folks may not have seen! It’s been a while since we’ve had a chance to do it –Thanksgiving week with my Dad got thrown into the mix, and it was nice to be away from it for a while. Miss him already!
See this pile of bonus triangles? I have close to 80 block quarters done on my Boxy Stars quilt for a class I’m teaching in Mc Kinney, Texas in January! Each block quarter gives me TWO bonus triangles that measure 2” square. All I had to do was trim dog ears.
All of these lovely units without a project ---and then! I find out that my sister Joy is expecting a baby and due this JUNE! It was a Thanksgiving announcement, and we are so grateful! And instantly, Auntie Bonnie knows just where these bonus triangles are likely to wind up.
Just a few more months down the road and we’ll find out whether the baby will be a pink one or a blue one –and I’ll be off and running!
Bonus units like this are GREAT to have on hand even if you don’t have a specific project for them YET. They just become part of the “Quilt Seeds” until the right need and project come along!
To find out how to save your bonus triangles in USABLE SIZES, click HERE.
My block quarters coming along!
You will find Boxy Stars under the Free Patterns Tab at the top of the blog above!
Oz & Alice!!
This might be my favorite unit of all time in this quilt – I had a short strip of Wizard of Oz fabric left from teaching a guild in Kansas ---and some “card guys” fabric from Alice in Wonderland – gifted to me by ALLISON WONDELAND!
I love putting weird and funky fabric combos in my quilts! Yeeehawww! All of the bonus triangles above came from behind these little flippy corners.
I love putting weird and funky fabric combos in my quilts! Yeeehawww! All of the bonus triangles above came from behind these little flippy corners.
And LOOK! My Leader & Ender Split 9-Patch Challenge pile is GROWING!
I’m working the Boxy Stars quilt in sets of 4 block quarters – so things are kept in a manageable chain, and these blocks have a chance to grow rapidly as Leaders & Enders in between the seams of sewing of the Boxy Stars units. Win/Win!
The tutorial for Split 9-Patch is found under the Free Patterns Tab at the top of the blog, too. Have you started one?
Remember Saturday I went table shopping on the way home from the airport? It was brought to my attention that I neglected to post the promised photos of the table that came home with me:
All mine for $39.00!!
The basket on top has current sewing notions I am using: Thread, needles, needle threader, scissors, seam ripper and my thimble.
Nothing in the cute little drawer yet, but that won’t take me long to fill up!
There will be more sewing through the morning here while laundry runs –washing all the linens from this past week up here. This afternoon after lunch, I’d like to do another hike before heading down the mountain, but that is weather permitting because it is starting to look kind of iffy out there. We’ll have to see on that.
I woke up this morning, counting on my fingers – and realizing there are only THREE MORE SLEEPS until I head to Germany and Austria! We have a group of 26 of us – and it is going to be a blast! I’ll keep in touch as often as I can, wifi permitting, but if there are blank spots in between posts, you’ll know why 
I will have the Friday Celtic Solstice Mystery posts written and ready to post ahead of time so those will go as scheduled!
Now what’s for breakfast around here?
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