Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

What a joy to have some days at home with no meetings, duties or chores to attend.  Just trying to finish up some UFO's.  Also working on Bonnie Hunter's Mystery quilt.  And that takes time to cut and sew so many units in a busy week.  Not complaining just commenting.

This is all 80 of Clue #4 units.  It is mostly perseverance and a strong back to do all the cutting.
I am doing everything scrappy even the yellows.  Have 66/100 of clue #1, Half of Clue #2 and over half of Clue #3.  Going to work on finishing them today and tomorrow.

This is the top for Harriet's Sampler which I did as a BOM ( I know I said no more but I really liked the store sample just did not realize how small some of the pieces were) for 2014.  This year will be no BOM.  I am committed to finishing all the ones I have started and to do two quilts that have been in the queue for a year.

I have had the border material for a while and really like how it looks with the fabrics in the blocks.

The inner border is dark brown which is homage to all the brown in the blocks. The border is wild because the quilt is not.

Cold, windy and rainy quilting.

Sally

Waiting

Well we are on the way with Bonnie Hunter's winter mystery.  It is fun if hectic and a real change from fighting the crowds for shopping.  I am nearly through and thinking about this time last year I am not surprised to realize I do not remember anything about Oct, Nov and Dec of 2013.  Maybe it is just as well.
November this year found ML SB and me winging our way to the International quilt show in Houston.  If you quilt and have the chance it is mind blowing.  Talk about fabric overload and the talent that went into putting fabric and thread together was amazing.
Anyway we came home with our bags twice as heavy which was ok since they were only half full when we left.  We stayed with SB's sister and her husband who were both so kind and we had a wonderful stay.
I have been trying to finish up some of my UFO's and am well on the way.

This one is waiting for me to finish the binding.  I just love all the oranges and pinks.  It is called Bento Boxes.

These are more of the BOM's at ME's and I am going to do the last one tomorrow and put this together.  I want to get it quilted and put over my sewing table.  It has been fun but some of those blocks had 20-30 pieces and they were small.

This was the batch for September.

December found us at the Vets removing a growth on Mr. C's lip.  He is showing off his stitches.

Someone donated some tops to the guild and I quilted this one with some swirl type quilting.

Here are some of last weeks units for BH mystery.  P and I worked on them Thursday.  C was sick with a cold.  We missed her.

Well that is enough for now.  Have to make my 5th batch of fudge ( the one with evap milk, butter and marshmallow cream) yum.

Tomorrow is a stay in and eat soup day.  Hope you can too.

Chilly quilting.

Sally