Pointless Quilter

For the last two years I have been following everyone who's done Bonnie Hunter's mystery and decided this year I was going to do it.  So she put clue one up last Friday and was able to finally start piecing yesterday.  I have 94 of 192 of these 4-patches done. If you are interested in participating or follow, here's a link to her blog - click on the Easy Street tab or heck, look around - she has so much information on her website and blog.  Her new book String Fling is fantastic too. I will be visiting my folks this weekend so I won't be getting a lot of sewing done and also I have a meeting Tuesday night and our guild Christmas party on Thursday so I'll have another busy week.  I'll be able to catch up on the weekend though. Thanks for looking.

I gave my mother-in-law this redwork kit and some white fabric and she got busy. About a week or so ago she brought me all the squares because I told her I'd put it together for her. With the help of my friend Janice who helped me piece at Party Party Party last week, I got the top done by Thanksgiving. I finished quilting it last night and the binding this morning. I had just practiced the swirl in the sashing thru the November Free Motion Quilting challenge. It was the perfect design for this piece. I spent the rest of the afternoon cutting up my scrap basket into the 5, 3.5 and 2 inch squares for Scrap Therapy. The first picture was taken on Friday afternoon. The second one just minutes ago.   My neck and back are aching but I have one more quilt to start machine quilting. So I better get busy. Thanks for looking.   Posted with Blogsy

Sara Vedeler was the teacher this month. She taught us how to do spirals in a row. I think I did okay. At the end (row on left near bottom) I didn't do the little line up before going down to the next spiral and I think I like that better. I have two more quilts pinned. One is a small redwork piece I put together for my mother-in-law and the second is a guild charity quilt that just needed quilting. Thanks for looking.   Posted with Blogsy

And my back is sore from carrying the boxes from the storage shed in the back of our property to the house and then back again. I had to do a little adjusting. I had to take the leaf out of the table, remove 2 chairs to make my main tree fit in the dining room. But this is what is in its normal spot. These boxes have been here for a few months. And the angel tree that is usually in my dining room next to the hutch is now in my sewing room. (Had to remove a chair here too.) And this is my view from my cutting table. I left about 6 boxes unpacked. I didn't take any dishes out, any of the big wooden pieces, my village and my snow globe collection. I'm not having any company this year so I didn't think I needed to do it all. Thanks for looking.   Posted with Blogsy

I call this Basement Blankie My sister Brenda redecorated her basement and sent me some of her extra fabric to make a quilt for her. Her fabric is the multi-color floral fabric and the green I used in the binding. I've wanted to make a chevron quilt for a while and the pieces of fabric she sent me this was the perfect pattern. It's not a bed quilt but a good sized lap quilt for her couch. I hope she likes it. I get a four day weekend for Thanksgiving. Tomorrow we go to my in-laws for dinner and my hubby's uncle Bill will also be there. It will be a quiet day. I'll also get my Christmas decoration boxes out and ready for Friday when I plan to holiday up the house. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thanks for looking.   Posted with Blogsy

So many ways to use Half-Square Triangles.  Earlier this year we each exchanged 20 HST to each other (13 of us participating so 260 HST to make) and we said they had to be scrappy.  We had until our Christmas party (today) to get at least the top done.  Here's what we got. Debbie Van Fossen's (she's still machine quilting) My quilt. Diane Mithcell - she make her own and didn't participate in the exchange Kathy Morrison (She's going to combine with last years'  hexagon's blocks in the borders.) Pam Larsen - she really had to pay attention tot he color of the HST's. Rita Buchler - she made two pillows with the leftover blocks Maxine Kroeber - she hand stitched all the flower blocks Elaine Berry - she said she might add more Janice Minyard - completed - quilting circles around with feather around the border. Deolinda Rhoads - was just looking for something to use her panel piece. My friend Anna finish...

Home from the Houston International Quilt Show and am glad I took today off to unpack and do a little cleaning. Hopefully a little quilting tonight. Now I'm pumped and ready to finish what I have started so I can start some new stuff. The Texas teas and fabrics are just things that I bought that were Texas specific.  The teas were delish and since I've been drinking more tea lately than coffee, I thought I'd update my stash.  I only got one quilt related book and it was Bonnie Hunters String Fling book.  The kids book is for my grandson for the 25 days of Christmas books I'm going to do for him.  Saw the cute wool pin cushions and pins and thought they would make great gifts as I did some of the shiny things.  The clips are for the shawls/scarves I got or have already and the misc. stuff is just some stuff I saw that I thought was kind of cool.  Some of the above items are for gifts too - for family and friends and also for a gift basket I'm putting...

Our last night in Houston and we all signed up for the Hoe Down. Who knew all these old ladies would want to shake their booties after a long day of shopping, but they did. This picture doesn't show a lot of dancers but on some songs the floor was packed. The band was great and it was a nice end to a wonderful trip. To grasp the hugeness (is that a word) of the vending part of the show I took a panoramic shot from the second level of the convention center. Here's a regular shot. I finished going through the other part of the quilts today and even went through the part I'd seen before. There are some very pretty quilts out there. Again, I took more pictures with my camera not my phone. We did get a group shot of our gang in an area they had set up for photo ops. From left to right: Graces friend Linda ( no one in my room knows her last name), Anna, Grace, me, Elaine, Janice, Pam, Barbara Sawyer, Kathy, and kneeling on the bottom is Barbara Brown. Yes there were...