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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, ...

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, so I couldn't start until this month. I was behind by 6 clues, but I 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 the 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 playin...

A year ago, just before Thanksgiving, my DGD#1 moved to California from Tennessee. I had not seen her in over three years, so it was a joy to have her and DGD#2 (her sister) with us, especially since my youngest DGD#3 had moved out of state with her family.   But sadly, nothing lasts forever.  In June, my middle DGD#2 moved out of state to be with her family, and now my oldest DGD#1 is moving back east, where she found a great job opportunity and living expenses are much more affordable.   She and her roommate/friend are driving there next month and will be getting their own place.  They are very excited to start their new adventure. Ombre HST Quilt Pattern - free online pattern from Sarah Goer Quilts Of course, I told them I would make each a quilt to take to their new home.  This was in October, and since they weren't leaving until mid-January, I thought I had plenty of time to finish both quilts before they left. This ...

Slash Your Stash Halloween Quilt #238   This is the second scrappy Halloween quilt I started in October 2015, with the intention of giving this one to DGD#3 for Halloween.  Life got in the way , and the project was put away along with the  other Halloween quilt for DGD#2 . Fast forward four years to October 2019, and I decided it was time to finish this quilt, too. I just love the backing - it's soo cute! Oooh, I hate spiders!  Doesn't that big black one look scary? Pumpkin goblins and candy corn - perfect for a Halloween quilt Spooky ghosts I quilted it with a loop-to-loop design, edge-to-edge, across each row of strips.  It was fast and easy, and I think it's just right for this scrappy design.  The quilt measures 80" x 80" and is a larger throw size.  I'm also thinking of the other quilt projects that have been sitting on the back burner, just waiting to be finished. I can feel the excitement build and that itch that needs to be scratched.  And...

Happy Halloween Scrappy Quilt #237 And those Halloween quilts?  Well, they never got finished until this year.  As I sat at home on Halloween night, thinking of my DGDs and missing them, I decided it was time to finish those tops I've been posting about for such a long time!  They are now finished and ready for gift-giving. This quilt is for DGD#2, and I first posted about it  here in 2015.  It measures 53" x 62" and is a nice throw-size. (I even have enough leftover blocks to make a 2nd quilt for me!) >I'm also thinking of the other quilt projects that have been sitting on the back burner, just waiting to be finished. I can feel the excitement build and that itch that needs to be scratched.  And now I have the time to quilt.  I miss my DGDs but have also missed my quilting and am so glad to get back to it! UPDATE : June 2020  ~ I wasn't sure when I'd see DGD#2 so I mailed it to her.  I wanted her to have it before Hallow...

I can't believe it's been four years since my last post! And yet it seems it was only yesterday. In 2015 my daughter and two teenage granddaughters came to live with me--and my quilting (and blogging) took a back seat.  In 2018 my DD and DGD#3 moved out-of-state, but DGD#2 stayed with me while she attended the local community college. Then, in late 2018, DGD#1 also came to stay with us.  I was thrilled to again have 2 of my 3 DGDs with me. But DGD#2 missed her mom and family; and when the semester ended in June, she moved to be with them. Although DGD#1 still lives here, she has moved to her own place.   As much as I miss them all very much, I find that I now have extra time on my hands for quilting and blogging. I also went from having no sewing/quilting room to having 2 vacant bedrooms.  I now had so much room that I didn't know what to do!  All my quilting stuff and stash had been put away for the past four years, and I was excited to f...

  Two more quilts were completed from this stack of flimsy tops , and are now ready for donation. Rail Fence Quilt #235 Basket Weave Quilt #236 The patterns for both quilts (and some of the other tops from the stack) are by Ursula Reikes.  I love her series of Quilts for Baby  books. This makes 9 quilts that I've finished from the stack, which means I have 2 more left to complete.  But I actually have 4 UFO tops because my DD added two tops she made.  With the holidays upon us, I think these will have to wait until next year. Happy quilting and happy holidays!  Remember, the best things in life are quilted.