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Christmas and Mysteries

Clue 5 is out for the Bonnie Hunter Mystery Allietare   However, I'm still working on Clue 4.  Here is what I have done so far.  That thing called Christmas took up all my time this past week.  My pieces are turning out horribly and I must do the stitch and flip method from this point forward.  The angler rulers are just not working out for me.  Maybe I am one of those people that needs a line to stitch on.  I don't know. I'll make them work. Every year my siblings and I exchange hand made ornaments.  They all outdid themselves again this year. My sister Brenda made these.  Don't know how she did it but it's very cool. And my sister Beverly made this from a glove.  So cute. Not an ornament, but my brother made this frame for all of us.  He's become quite a great scroll saw-er.   The picture of  Santa is actually my nephew Drew who interns at Staples Center for the Clippers. These are the ornaments I made. One for the 3 siblings and 2 for

Allietare Mystery, Part 2 & 3 and some party pictures

I didn't post last week although I did finish my 2nd Clue.  The reason I'll explain later.  But for now - here are my Clues 2 and 3.  If you want more info on this mystery or want to see what other people's clues look like, please check out Bonnie Hunter, of Quiltville's Clue 3 Link up Page . I belong to a few friendship groups and this weekend the first one I joined and the biggest (16 members I think) had our Christmas party.  This group doesn't meet very often but we all keep in touch.  In the spring we meet to either trade for our challenge quilts or give progress reports and at Christmas, we reveal our challenges.  This past year we exchanged blocks.  Here's a link to the spring meeting where you can see the blocks we exchanged.  And below are some of the quilts (tops) that were made.  This was a slow year, only 5 of of us finished our tops.  But the finished ones are great. Kathy Morrison wanted Crazy Quilt blocks.   I asked for Easter bloc