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WIP Wednesday: Frolic Mystery Quilt Plus Quilts For Kids

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I spent the past weekend sewing all the sashings and rows on my Frolic Mystery Quilt top, and here it is!  I love it!  I'll do the inner border and then I'll take a break before I tackle the outer border. I am so glad I decided to join this time and regret not having joined in previous years.  Luckily, all the mystery quilts are available on Bonnie's Quiltville website  for purchase. I can't believe it's been almost 10 years since my last post  about the   Downy Touch of Comfort .   Quilts for Kids and their kits .  Back then, I had decided I was going to change my focus and return to Project Linus which I had been involved with since 2001. Apparently, I had a change of heart because last October, when I was organizing my quilting room, I stumbled upon 2 kits from Quilts for Kids.  They had been stored away and forgotten.  One of them even had a packing slip from 2013! And, when my DD left in 2018, she left behind all her quilt

Happy New Year! Celebrating Another 10 Years of Quilting

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Happy New Year!  It’s hard to believe that 20 years have come and gone since we celebrated The Millennium!   I started quilting in 1999 so I am also celebrating 20 years of quilting.  And, I am looking forward to and am excited about a more productive decade!  Having said that, I decided my first quilt of the decade will be Bonnie Hunter's Frolic Mystery Quilt .  This is Bonnie's 15th online mystery and my first ever mystery. The introduction and first clues were posted last year in October/November, but I was busy with the quilts for my DGD#1 and her friend that I couldn't start until this month. I was behind by 6 clues but thought I might be able to catch up if I worked on it every day.  So once  I gathered my fabrics, both from my stash and fabric store, I got busy cutting.   Except for this one picture, I didn't take pictures of my progress to post on social media.  I was too busy cutting and playing catch up! I worked on this prett