Easy Street Mystery Update

Hey all,

Working on my Bonnie Hunter mystery Easy Street.

Since I got behind, I decided to cut everything for the steps while I was hanging out with my son, so I would not be upstairs sewing and I could spend time with him.  

 So last night I sewed up two steps and this morning another step, so now I just need to do step 3 and I will be ready to start assembly.

My completed pieces ready to be assembled.

 Bonnie has us putting this quilt on point, so first up will be to piece the corners.

 Next will be the setting triangles.

This is going to be a two block quilt, (my pictures are out of order, but this will be the block B.

 So this is block A, with two orange triangles holding the place in the center, which will be a solid block.  This is the way Bonnie has designed it...I am trying to decide if I want to replace that with a blue center.

 Here I threw some blue triangles in the middle to mimic a  blue center.  Not sure which I like better.

So once I finish my chores today, I will work on step 3 and I HAVE TO work on my entry for pigeon forge if I am going to get it done.

Check out all the links on Bonnie's site by clicking here

As my friend Su (from Okinawa days) says "Live the Day Well".


Terry

Celeste's Quilt

Hey all,

Sorry I have been so negligent in updating the blog, Christmas and school got ahead of me and I have just not kept up.  Christmas is put up and now it is time to get back to it.

I made Celeste a quilt for Christmas.  I wanted to commemorate her accomplishments, so I put red, white and blue fabrics to represent her undergrad work at Ole Miss and on the back...

University of Texas fabric to represent her graduate work.  I bound it in blue.

Watana quilted it for me again using a sports pattern.

Since Celeste was flying we boxed it up and sent it off to Boulder.

I will post more tomorrow on the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt Easy Street.  I am behind, but coming up  quickly...although I won't finish it this week.

Just about all the cutting is done and I have completed steps 1, 2, and 3 part of some other steps...more on that tomorrow.

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and a happy and healthy 2013!!

Terry

AAQI Update 11/20

Hey all,

Just a quick update on the Alzheimer's Awareness Quilt Initiative.

The first one from the MQA group to sell was Brenda Crownover.  http://www.alzquilts.org/12475.html It raised $60.

Two of our groups were accepted to the auction; Sheila Pierce http://www.alzquilts.org/12478.html and Watana Cantrell http://www.alzquilts.org/12480.html.  This is for the December Auction that will run from December 1 to the 10th.

Mine are still not up, but I am sure they will be soon!

Every one have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving.

Terry

Big Plans!!!

Hey all,

Probably won't be much sewing this week.  I am going to Boulder to see my wonderful, smart, fun, athletic, talented, giving, beautiful daughter.  We are planning to have a wonderful Thanksgiving day dinner with whom ever is around that wants to come.  

Been getting exciting that Bonnie Hunter mystery starts Friday.  I have never participated before, but decided to do it this year.  These are the colors she is doing hers in.  I started to do mine in the same colors, but I did not have much teal.  So first I was just going to substitute in blue for teal and move forward.  Then I decided that I am going to use a different color combination.  So I went shopping in my stash of fabrics and pulled this combination.

I am liking it a lot...still not sure about everyone of them, but I am trying to do this quilt without buying any fabric....I have been organizing my fabric and I have a bunch of it up there.  So I am trying to sew it up and make room for more.  

In organizing, I found this UFO that I had forgotten about.  I could either make a 4 x 4 small quilt

I would have to get rid of two blocks to make it square.

or a 3 x 6 block quilt and make a long quilt...maybe with sashings between the columns?  What do you all think?  

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.  

Terry

No Sewing. Cleaning.

Hey all,

No sewing occurred this week....sadness.  Spent way too much time listening to politics.  I will get to sewing this week and post later!!  But the yard and house look better, laundry is done, dogs have been bathed and all the dog beds washed as well as my sheets!!  Car is still a mess, but will work on that later too.  Live the day well, as my friend Su C. (knew her in Okinawa, but now hails from northern Virginia.)

Alzheimer's Quilts Updates

Our quilts are still on the waiting to be assigned page, but pictures of all our quilts are up, except mine.  The ones I registered for myself were sent to one lady and the ones I was the quilt registration goddess (their words)  for were sent to another lady.  The one that is doing mine might be at the International Show in Houston...so I am sure once she is back they will be posted.  I know the lady who assigns the numbers was going and indicated they had a group going to work the show.

click here to see the photos



Photo credit:"Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope" quilt exhibit. Photo courtesy of Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative.  All these photos are credited to Alzheimer's.

12,475 - All That Remains	12,476 - Changing Directions
12,477 - A Different Path	12,478 - Alzheimer's Blues	12,479 - Uneven Lines of Life
12,480 - Sunsets of Our Lives	12,481 - Stop and Smell the Rose	12,482 - Flowers in the Tree
12,483 - Hope For A Cure	12,484 - Remember the Score	12,485 - Basket of Flowers Postcard
12,486 - Railroad Bridge, Columbus, MS Postcard	12,487 - Columbus, MS Possum Town Postcard 12,491 - Stripped Bare you can click on the quilt to go to alzheimer's page!

Blueberries and Key Lime Pie

Hey all,

Klaudeen Hanson

Our guild, in conjunction with the Starkville guild arranged to have Klaudeen Hanson come teach two seminars on the same topic so that we could share the cost.  She taught one in Columbus yesterday and today was in Starkville.  Since I work, I went to the class in Starkville.  They have a beautiful facility at their Sportsplex.  It is so roomy and bright.  We were making her quilt pattern called Blueberries and Key Lime Pie. 

 It is a fairly simple pattern that can look very different depending on colors and types of fabrics.

I like the wavy stripes.  

This pattern looked really elegant.

I forgot who had this one, but the stripe was really a bargello that looks striped when cut across.

Nancy from Starkville - love the black and white, that will be very dramatic.

I always think brown and blue look manly.

Doesn't this look Springy?

Diane - Fall colors

I forgot...but this looks like the colors of an iris.

Judy's Blue and Yellow

Lawana's  Classy gray and red

Bobbie's  looks like summer to me.

These were my colors...I think I will call it "Death by Pumpkins"  (I might change my mind!!)

If you look close, my striped fabric has skulls on it...I have very little striped fabric in my stash of fabric, so I bought this fabric for this project.  I may have to decide to not eliminate it so quickly.  I usually choose not to use it as directional fabrics sometimes cause design problems.  But I put striped fabric on the binding of the last quilt and we used it in the stratas last summer and I really like it in this.    Hmmm, I am sensing a trend.

Here are a few more photos from the day.  It was delightful and relaxing.  Hope everyone from the other class had as much fun.