Clue 5 On Ringo Lake

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Clue 5 of On Ringo Lake is done.  I sewed yesterday with friends at Backdoor Quilt Shop.  I haven't been able to do that since last summer because of babysitting on Tuesday. I always have fun spending the day with friends sewing.

I finished my geese today, so I worked a bit on my Smith Mountain Morning.

I took Mom to Pet Smart today at noon to get Lily groomed.  Boy what a mess!  They had Santa set up to take pictures of Santa and your pet right in front of the grooming room door.  Then on to return a salad spinner from Costco and the parking lot there was chaos and mess galore.  On to buy a Christmas gift at a store that no longer is in existence, so driving around Shiloh crossing, around and around, and around with a mess of cars and few open parking spaces talking to Siri and having Mom try to line up the blue arrow and the red marker on Google Maps. HaHa.  Mom enjoyed getting out and about.  Then home to finish up Clue #4 on the mystery and to tackle this sewing room mess.

I made some progress.  Shifting shit as Carol calls it.

I did finish up one project that has been lying around.

And started quilting on my scrappy star struck by Bonnie Hunter.

I used the stripology ruler to cut my strips, so they are all the same size.  I do think that helped because my triangles and squares fit right together like they are suppose to.  I finished all my blocks by Saturday early afternoon after having to take my mom to Pet Smart.

My browns are all pretty similar, so they don't look that different.  I have lots and lots of brown because I just finished the top of Judy Martin's Peaceful Valley Log Cabin.  I really like all colors and see each and everyone has a place in my world. 

My box so far.  Thanks to the person who showed using a box lid.  My mystery clues in the past have been all over the place.  Now they are corralled.

After reading Bonnie's blog post this morning I had better go measure my triangles.  Maybe some are the wrong size and maybe that's why I found this clue so easy.  :) 

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clue 1

Another exciting Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt has just started.  I start a page for the current mystery every year, but I notice that I never add a picture of the finished quilt!  This year that will be my goal.  I also plan to find a place to take pics of my previous finished mystery quilts and add them to the appropriate pages.

I just love these 9 patches.  I especially love them in the smaller size.  I think I will replace the blocks where the colored cats overpower the aqua in the small squares.








I decided to replace the square with the orange fish with the aqua fin.  I decided if aqua was half of the square; I would keep it.  I did get all of clue #1 done.

All of my dark chocolate centers look the same although they are different fabrics.  I had the strips cut from the last Judy Martin log cabin quilt I made. It came from Extraordinary Log Cabin Quilts, and it is pin basted and ready to quilt. 

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Ringo Lake Clue 2 and 3

Clue 2  was a difficult one for me and I really don't know why.  I haven't had trouble in the past with making flying geese and getting the seam allowance room at the top. I think I did about twice as many as were required.  I ripped out and remeasured and resewed many many geese.  I finally finished on Thursday night. I used Bonnie's essential triangle ruler for both.  I will have to try using the folded corner ruler in the future and see if I get better accuracy.  Maybe I should have used the oversized square.

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Clue 3 was not as hard.  I really like the folded corners ruler.  I used it with Bonnie's essential triangle ruler.  I thought everything was going excellently because I could tell when my triangles weren't cut perfectly because they didn't line up with the angle and length of the diamond cut by the folding corner ruler.  Well I had 20 that I had to redo.  Most were sewn inaccurately and a few were cut inaccurately.  The batik corner triangles were the most problematic.

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Ashcombe Quilt by Miss Rosie's Quilt Company.  Finished!  Binding was done while watching my new class sticks for my ScannCut by Jen Blausey.  I really enjoyed her helpful videos and my sewing.

Also I have 90 flying geese units done for the mystery.  110 more to go.

I have made many many flying geese in my lifetime, but I still have to make a few to get in the swing.  Using the esstential triangle ruler is my favorite way because I am not wasting.  :)

I just got back from Clydehurst Quilt Camp.  I had a fabulous time as usual.  Loads of good food, great fellow quilters, and quality sewing time.  I finished sewing on the binding or Carolina Chain from Bonnie Hunter's book, Addicted to Scraps.

Mom got moved into her apartment at Aspen View, and is settling in.  It is nice to have her close.

My Colorful Heaven

90x90

Last July I went to two classes with Bonnie Hunter.  I used up a few 2.5 inch strips in this one.  It is from Bonnie Hunter's, My Blue Heaven, which is found on her free pattern tab.  Click here. It was great fun and the quilter's from Bozeman and Livingston were the best!

Sheila, Marge and I had a great trip to Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia!  The resort was beautiful.

I didn't get any pics of our great rooms, but the grounds were covered with Big Horn sheep.  We walked right by this one.  The resort was called Big Horn Meadow Resort.  Obvious!

We skated (briefly) and skied, skied, and skied, and sat in the healing radium hot springs.

Bonnie Hunter's En Provence mystery quilt is DONE!!

Now I am working on finishing Carolina Crossroads.  This was hard to lay out.  I made the same number of each of the units. Red, Yellow, Black, and Blue (the colors from the Superman print for the back.) There are the same number of the two different kinds of blocks.  I didn't follow any pattern of putting them together, however, because there were so many fabrics.  It maybe would have been easier if I had.

I just bought a stripology ruler after hearing how much Bonnie Hunter liked hers.  So far is is making cutting up my scraps easier.  I bought it through Amazon.

I also made a label for my En Provence quilt that was Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt this year.  It is in the wrong corner to be right side up for my garden/ bicycle pic on the back, but I forgot all about a label until I only had one corner left.  So, rather than take out my binding, I decided to live with it upside down.  I used Superior's Bottom Line thread for the lettering and am happy with the results.  It took me much longer than it should have because I couldn't get my fonts into embird on either of my computers.  On windows 10 it worked, and I couldn't get the fonts to load on my windows 8, so much time wasting.

I am trying to do a machine embroidery item once a month, even it it is something small and simple.

January's mug mat

Yes, that is a bird.  I find my biggest problem is trying to decide what to do.  My new phrase is,

 "Just do something! It doesn't matter what."

February's pot holder

I am not sure why it is turned.

February 1, 2017

I said I would post progress on the infamous 20 year old cross stitch angel.  It doesn't look like a whole look of progress, but there is. I got the tip from my friend Susie to make a grid 10x10 on the linen.  That helps in counting a bunch.  It is not the quality of my previous works, but once it is on the wall maybe it won't be noticeable.

January 24, 2017

A biopsy of a spot on my ankle.  turned into a removal of skin cancer.  I was told it would take 30 minutes and a couple of stitches.  It did take less than 30 minutes, but I think 9 stitches is more than a couple.  :)

January 16, 2016

I have been binge reading.  My living room is sunny and I have a quilt and a comfortable chair that I love.  When the temperature is below zero, it is the perfect place to be. I have read 8 books in these first 16 days.  This is my first year that I didn't set some goals.  Nevertheless, I am committed to eating healthy and exercising.

I have finished the top of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt, En Provence, inspired by her trip to France. I started on Friday, November 25,2016.  She revealed what it would look like on January 1, 2017.

I like it and used everything from my own fabric stash except for some lavenders that my friend, Marge Laferriere gave me.

I don't have a big enough space to lay it out to photograph it.  It's 90" x 90".  I bought 2 yards of fabric for the back with bicycles in a garden.  I will use other pieces from what is leftover from the front.

January 2, 2017

I always start the year out with a few blog posts and then they dwindle off as the year goes on.  We'll see how it all goes in 2017.  I  need a more efficient way of doing it all.  I want to spend less time on the computer and more time doing other things, so that is my excuse.

I started these cross stitch pictures many many years ago.  I bought the frames and suede mats when I was working at Deck the Walls, so I am thinking it was about 20 years ago.

This has been hanging on my living room wall off and on for the last 20 years.  I got it out for Christmas this year. It is called Angel of Freedom.

Angel of  Freedom

I have decided to finish its mate this year and have decided to keep track of my progress monthly as a motivator. These cold snowy days are perfect for working on it.  It look a great deal of time to find a hoop and needles to say nothing of the floss needed.  My floss is a huge tangled mess.  I started to organize it, but then quit because I don't see more hand cross stitch in my future.  I will continue to do hand stitching, but not cross stitch.   I will leave tat kind of embroidery to my embroidery machine.

One of the quilts I finished in 2016 is this split nine patch.  I tried some new things with the machine quilting and I am happy with it.  I had kind of forgotten until Mom came for Christmas and raved about it.

split nine patch

Bonnie Hunter's leaders and enders project for 2013-2014

I really admire people who can take such nice pictures of their quilts. I think I will try to improve my photo taking skills this year.  Once again another thing that will take time from my quilting.  :)  I will also try to take pictures of the things that I make, so I can look back at the year and see what I have accomplished.  I tried a spreadsheet like some of the ladies on stashbusters, but once again I was spending more time documenting my progress than making progress.