I finished this in mid March, but didn't take a picture of it.  I used all materials from my stash.  I used about 4.5 yards.  I weigh the scraps and then convert it to yards.  I did use yardage for the back and the tone on tone blocks that became the sashing.  I had a lot of small pieces of bugs, frogs, etc to make a bug jar quilt for years, but making one block was enough for me without an intended recipient.

Here is where I got the pattern.  

http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2010/05/disappearing-nine.html

Well, I have used 23 yards of my stash fabric since January 27, 2014!!  This is Bonnie Hunter's I Spy 4 Patch  I just alternated my two fabrics instead of making each one a different children's fabric.

This is a closer picture.  My laser light makes this quilting a snap

Finally, this is finished.  I can't really remember when I started working on it, but it has been on my mind for a number of years  A design similiar to this was on the opening of AlexAnderson's Simply Quilts television show. So, first I purchased a book by Barbara Kaempfer called Log Cabin with a Twist.

  Then I dyed 40 pieces of fabric.  Each colorway has 5 gradations of color. I started with a half yard of each one, which is 20 yards of fabric. I was only able to do fat quarters on my last color turquoise because I must have run short of fabric.  What???? I must not have measured correctly.......or maybe it was the clerk who sold it to me! VBG

The book has paper piecing templates in the back, so I let the fabric age for a year or two because I am not a big fan of paper piecing.Then I found an embroidery design and ended up doing the 44 blocks on my embroidery machine.  I got the colors wrong and had to redo three of them and also trying to save a little fabric I cut some of my pieces too small and those blocks had to be redone.  The quilting stitches are done with 30 weight varigated sulky thread.  I threw out a block or two while trying to decide the thread color.  Now it is hanging on my wall, and I am very happy. One less project cluttering up my brain.,

I can't remember when I started this Twisted Log Cabin.  I have been thinking about making it for years.  I dyed the fabrics a couple of years ago and I think that I started this in about June.  I am about half done.  It is very slow going and monotonous. I am not really enjoying doing it, but I think I will like the finished product, and I don't want to quit and give up on it.  Here are two of the four rows.

Once I start, it's hard to stop

I am done with my mystery clue #3 for the week, but working on that makes me want to keep sewing.  I worked on cleaning up some of the flat surfaces in my sewing room today while watching "Alias".  I cut up some more pieces for my Leaders and Enders project for this year, It is Split Nine Patch and the free directions can be found here.

http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-2013-leader-ender-challenge.html


I also cut up odds and ends of fabric into standard sizes for future scrappy quilts.

Here my pieces are all cut and ready to assemble.

I noticed that last year I wrote about sewing my "Gaggle of Geese Quilt", but now I can show you that it is finished and hanging on the wall.

This is a Christmas present I made for my friend,Bobbie, this year. Boy, Christmas is more enjoyable when I am retired! It was fun to make, but with 3 zippers, a magnetic snap, velcro, 7 pockets and every piece stabilized; I don't want to make another one anytime soon.

Hard to believe that I was going to post and more frequently about a year ago.  I did get my Easy Street done, and you can see that on the mystery tab.  I must have started my Turkey Tracks last February from Bonnie Hunter's String Fling  book.  The top is done and now I am thinking about how to quilt it.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  It is going to be aged for a while because I am working on Bonnie's mystery again this year.

The borders were pretty time intensive with all those flying geese.  There are a total of 456 in this quilt.  I had the colors reversed for the first hundred, so those had to be redone.