Well, here it is February and I’m just now making my first post of the year. I hope to do better this year with my blogging than I did last year, but I’m making no promises.
Since I last posted, I got about halfway through the quilting on the 2016 Bonnie Hunter mystery, En Provence. I had allowed 4 hours to for quilting, but that didn’t take into consideration, stabbing my self with my nips resulting in lots of blood, or the fact that my quilt is 115 ” square — significantly larger that most of my quilts. Soon, I will have to schedule more time on the long arm to finish quilting it.
I’m working on the 2017 mystery, On Ringo Lake, and making progress. As each clue came out, I cut the fabric and sewed at least one clue – at least up through clue # 6. Technically I had enough fabric, but it would be predominately just two fabrics and that would require knowing where in the quilt those pieces were going. In the meantime, I kept sewing the pieces for the clues, skipping # 2. I think I’m halfway through clue #7.
The LQS had a sale on FQs – $2 a piece. I really wanted 5 peachy/coral FQs to round out what I had, but was only able to find the 4 pictured above. I’m considering changing my setting squares, so picked up a couple of turquoise FQ and of course a couple of neutrals on general principles.
Also while out and about, I found 101 Fabulous Rotary-Cut Quilts by Judy Hopkins & Nancy J. Martin at Half-Price Books. There are six quilts in the book that I want to make, so it came home with me.
Good to read your blog again 🙂
I also have 101 Fabulous Rotary-Cut Quilts by Judy Hopkins & Nancy J. Martin and without looking, I probably have the same number of quilts marked. I wonder if they’re the same? I’ve good too many to make before that, hard to tell if I’ll live long enough to make them 😉