I finished the Allietare top.

I was ready to start machine quilting some of the tops I have ready.  I watched a Leah Day you tube video and picking thread. She suggests you practice quilting on a practice block.  I couldn't find any of the green I used, but I did have a 1.5 strip in my bin, so I pieced it together.

These are all 30 weight varigated sulky.  I wasn't crazy about any of them, so I looked at the blue and neutral quilt on my wall, and decided I liked just plain neutral thread.

I have an additional table set up behind my sewing machine table and Gabe can't get in.

2015

I bought a new rug at Montana Lumber Liquidators.  It is bigger than my old one, but very similar in color.  It is 10.5 x 15.  Gabe is finding the thicker rug very comfortable.  He is worn out from trying to help by sitting on chairs and the couch as I was trying to move them.

Here is a quilt from the past when my sewing room was in my bedroom and I had four foster children.  This is Sunny, my first wire haired fox terrier, enjoying herself on my Tulip Log Cabin.  I made this quilt with others on line from a yahoo group called IQ.  They people from that group were my adult social outlet at the time.

Here is a scrappy quilt using 2 inch squares.

Today I went through some pictures and found some of things I had made.  I will post them one at a time, so I have a record of what I've made.

I made a mistake putting the rows together on my Allietare.  I pinned the blocks together, but not the rows.  I should had laid it out again once my rows were done.  I know I get left and right mixed up, but I must get top and bottom mixed up too.

I did get it ripped and resewed.

Wahoo!  Now onto borders.............

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Play Dead by Anne Frasier
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Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke
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Bonnie Hunter said she didn't want to be predictable, so I was sure that she would not have the mystery quilt 2015 reveal on January 1, 2016.  I worked like crazy to get caught up by December 31st. to be ready for the new clue on January 1.  So, I was ready to start assembling blocks when the clue was the reveal.  Here is what I have assembled so far.

Of course, now one thing depends on another.  I can't lay the quilt out until I finish undecorating because I need the floor space to lay it on.  I can't get the rug cleaned off untiI get some paper work done for the refinancing of a loan done.  Of course, my paperwork situation is a horrendous mess.  I would make it a New Year's goal, but I have been trying for years to improve my system.  Maybe this is the year I will succeed.  We'll see.

 I post on this blog so seldomly that I have to relearn how to do it every time. That is a goal that I plan to achieve.  Just a baby step.  Write more blog posts than I did in 2015.  I didn't even get pictures of all the items I have sewn. Part of the blog problem posting was I updated to windows 10, and itunes didn't keep up, so the computer would not read my iphone, ipad, or ipod to easily transfer pics.  After much to do I reverted to windows 8, so now it is much easier.

Here are my two separate blocks.  I used Bonnie's colors, but my neutrals are not varied like hers.