Quiltville Mystery Quilt---Easy Street

This turned out to be quite the quilt. It was way outside my comfortable batik box I've been working in lately, but I love it and it was alot of fun to do. As Roger said "It's Green!" and it sure is. Here are the rest of the steps up until the finished quilt top.

Block A and Block B. These are set on point with side and corner triangles. I forgot to photograph the corner triangles.

And here is the finished quilt top. I love how the flying geese radiate out from the B blocks. Just picked up some backing fabric, so stay tuned for the big finish in a couple of weeks.

Happy New Year! It's Mystery Quilt Day

I think this is my 7th or 8th New Year's Day mystery quilt from planetpatchwork.com. Today's quilt was super easy to put together and turned out really pretty.

 

I chose a blue/grey color palette.

 

 

We started off adding the lightest fabric choice onto some background squares.

 

 

Next we added another light strip to make a corner "L".

 

 

Now, we added some light strips to make a criss cross. This is starting to look like a path.

 

 

Next, we turned the previous blocks into a crossing path block with lattice and cornerstone. I actually traded out the original crosshatched blue I had chosen for a lighter leaf pattern. My original fabric was too close to my background fabric in value.

 

 

And finally, all of the path blocks are put together with a striped latticework and more background fabric for the borders. Another fun mystery quilt is in the books!

 

 

 

 

Quiltville Mystery Quilt Parts 3 & 4

I'm still catching up, but I'm getting there. I'm really loving the colors in this quilt and the black and white makes everything pop!

 

Here is part 3 of Easy Street. The shadow block.

 

 

 

And part 4. Some purple geese with teal wings and then putting some geese together.

I'm almost caught up. I've still got part 5 to do and part 6 will be posted tomorrow.

Merry Christmas All!

We celebrated on the Solstice this year, since the kids were flying on Christmas Day. It was so much fun having the kids home for the holidays. We had a great time!

Here we have Paul, Roger, Heather, Cinder, Will, Rachelle and our newest family member, PEPPER!
Have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy and healthy New Year!

Quiltville Mystery Quilt Parts 1 and 2

I finally got a start on this mystery quilt. I'm only 2 weeks behind now. Yeah!  Everything except the black and white is from my stash too! Love being able to shop in my own quilt store....er room!

Step one was to combine the gray and the black and white prints into 4 patches! Check!

Step 2 was to make flying geese with your chosen purples as the goose and the black and white prints as the wings. Check!

 

 

My purple chicken pin cushion is enjoying the making of this quilt too! On to steps 3 and 4!

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

When my quilt group, Cactus Patchers,  started this round robin quilt way back in February, that was the song that kept spinning through my head while I was trying to think of a start to my quilt. I finally came up with this bright sunburst block and sent it off on it's journey to 5 other quilters...

 

Well, last night the Cactus Patchers met for our annual Holiday Party and at the end of the night was the big reveal! We finally got to see all the quilts we had worked on over the last 10 months.

I absolutely love the way mine came out. And I'll treasure the little note each person wrote in the traveling journal that went with the quilt on its journey. This was so much fun and very outside the box.

 

 

Jane was the first to get the quilt and she added the piano keys in the lower left of the center block. Next, Monica added the flying geese in the upper right corner. Betty, got the block next and added the thin purple border and wide tan border. Pam added the fuzzy vine and leaves to the top of the wide tan border. And, finally, Donna added the mountain border. Now it's my turn to add any additional borders and finish it up. And it definitely still sings to me about the bright side of life.

 

Life Goes On

It's been quite awhile since I posted on my blog. We had such a great end to our salmon season catching 6 fish in the span of 3 days. Did some smoking and canning, plus several portions for the freezer. And then less than a week later my dad took a turn for the worse and then suddenly he was gone. Words can't even describe how sad I am or how much I miss him, but life does go on and I have some absolutely wonderful memories of him. And that last weekend I got to spend with him, showing him the pictures of our great salmon catches and he got to enjoy the little searun cutthroat I caught as well.

I'm back in Arizona now and getting ready for the holidays. Both my boys will be here and I can hardly wait. Got a full slate of cookies to bake, leg o lamb is in the freezer for Christmas Eve dinner and I'm starting to get crafty again. Found a new mystery quilt to start, which I will post here as I get the steps done and I have my Retreat in a Box projects to complete from Club Scrap.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures of my dad. I'm going to miss your smile!