Pointless Quilter

Each year, my siblings and I exchange home-made ornaments.  We've been doing this for years and my Christmas tree is full of all these wonderful ornaments. First the ornaments I made.  I cross stitched three for my siblings and just ran out of time for the two extra's for my older nephews. For my little sister Beverly For my Sister-in-Law Marcy And my older sister Brenda And these for my two older nephews. Speaking of my nephews, my oldest nephews wife gave birth today -- my first grand niece.  Meet Adeline Margaret.  Margaret was my mother's name who passed away 3 years ago, so that they used her name as the baby's middle name means a lot. My dad is thrilled to be a great-grandfather and we plan on taking him to visit her in April. Here are the ornaments I got from my siblings. My brothers wonderful woodwork. My little sister and her wonderful painting work. And Brenda made this awesome etched glass ornaments.   And recei

Between cookie batches I was able to piece Clue 4 of the  Bonnie Hunter Mystery - En Provence .  And here are all 4 clues all nestled safely in a box.  I think I will need a bigger box. I'm excited to see how these will all be put together and how she uses the green and yellows that we pulled for the quilt. I also made some more microwave bowl cozies for gifts. I also had this crazy idea to make Orca Bay in 2017 and thought I should sort my strips to see if I had enough blue and red. I think I have enough of everything but yellow and purple to make several of her string fling quilts.   See that pink box - it's stuffed full of neutrals. I'm all set. Thanks for looking. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with family and friends.

Just in time for the Monday Link up at Quiltville !  I was able to finish the 168 purple 4-patches.  I finished the 2 patches Saturday night and put them in a basket. And last night and tonight I worked to get all the 4 patches together. Success! I also finished this topper from Fig Tree & Company's Little Box of Fig.  The pattern and fabric top and binding were part of the box of goodies (with a lot of other fun stuff too).  I finished quilting and binding this on Saturday. Other than wrapping presents and Christmas shopping, this is all I've done. Thanks for looking.

For the last 4 years, I have been participating in Bonnie Hunter's Annual Mystery.  (Easy Street 2012, Celtic Solstice 2013, Grand Illusion 2014, Allietere 2015) and I'm doing it again this year, En Provence.  She has a link up every week too which is fun to see how everyone is doing and how the quilt looks with different colors and fabrics.  She is always inspired by trips she takes and this year she took a trip to France and lavender fields.  This years colors include purples which aren't my favorite, but I happen to have enough and who knows, I may really like it all together.  Here are my scrap fabrics (sans the pink fabrics). We have already been given 2 clues and I just caught up today.  The first clue was to make 4 patches using neutrals.  I got a lot of my neutrals from my strip basket which I'm thrilled about. The second clue uses the pink 'constant' fabric' meaning the pink will be the same fabrics throughout the quilts.  All the other colo

Today the Material Girls, the friendship group I belong to, revealed this years' challenge quilts.  The challenge this year was Stack 'n Whack.  I finished mine a few months ago and posted it a few posts back. The border fabric was my stack 'n whack fabric which I cut into circles and appliqued down. Adena Joseph   Diane Mitchell Barbara Brown hasn't finished hers but did have a picture of it on her design wall. Janice Minyard Carol Chadwick Kathy Morrison Anna Koelwyn And here's a group shot of us ladies. We missed those who couldn't make it but are very thankful for those who traveled far to be with us. Our next years challenge is Road Trip.  It could be using a block with a states name, fabric from a trip, or a quilt about a trip or a place.  Pretty broad themed but should be fun.  I have some ideas but we'll see if any of those work. Our guild also had their holiday party.  I won three baskets in the raffle.

I showed a picture of this quilt when I was pinning it.  Here it is all quilted and bound. This was on my resolution quilt list on the right.  So I get to say another one is finished!  And here is a little close up.  I should have pressed it before I photographed it, but I was in a hurry as I was packing fall stuff up today.  I also whipped this little runner up this week.  I didn't want to start a big project as I'm preparing for the Bonnie Hunter En Povence  mystery which starts this week.  Found this paper piece block from We All Sew 's Sugar Plum Runner quilt along and adjusted the block to make a runner.  Probably give it away as a gift or save it for next year's guild boutique. Two weekends ago, I went to Wonder Valley Ranch and had a retreat with my friendship group.  We were a small group but we had fun. They treat us well there although if more people aren't going to come we will just go to our house in Cambria for a long retreat.  The

First - I pinned and marked this quilt I whipped up this week while watching Dancing with the Stars. I have had this Fig Tree Pattern and also her fabrics for several years and was in the fall mood so started it this past week.  The applique is done using the washable Ricky Tims Stable Stuff and school glue stick method.  Then machine appliqued it down with Aurifil's clear thread.  It went fairly quickly although pretty sticky.   I also finished my Material Girls annual challenge quilt a week ago.  Our challenge this year was to make a quilt using Stack 'n Whack.  I wanted to something unique so I designed this myself.  This took me almost a year if you count from fabric purchasing to the end.  I bought this fabric on my way to the Road to California quilt show in January. I really need to work on my photo taking skills.   Anyway, the circles are the Stack 'n Whack and I used the light border fabric for the Stack 'n Whack circles.  I'm a month early for

Last Saturday the guild I belong to, Common Threads Quilt Guild, held their 5th Annual Boutique.  And we had another successful event. Here's a picture of the Fraternal Hall before the crowds came. And here's a picture of the room full of people. The guild netted over $8,000.00.  Which is better than last year so we're happy with that. I was in charge of organizing the consignment quilts.  This are for large quilts where 20% of the sales goes to the guild and the rest to the quilt maker.  We did quite well this year.  6 quilts, one tree skirt, 3 wooden trash cans (made by my dad) and one wood cutting board (also made by my dad) and 3 potting tables (made by another members husband and neighbor). 2 of those quilts were mine.  Yea!  Just in time since in the last week and a half, I've had to have to have over $1,600 in car repairs.  These are the quilts I sold. Other than that, I've now had time to focus on my quilts for me.  I'm almost d

Mostly stuff for our guilds boutique.  But I did get the triangle quilt done too. And here are a few more items for the boutique. Does not show upside down in my file - just here. Anyway, I also finished an apron and a Finding Dory baby quilt.  I will try to get pictures but forgot to take before I packed them away.   I also made 55 To/From tags using yo-yo's and buttons.  I need to take pictures of that too. Anyway - busy week and the boutique is this next Saturday.  I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for looking.