Allietarecherith clue 1 completed

Finished up today. As I retired this past January I am purposely enjoying the journey. This quilt will be a graduation present to my daughter Cherith from nursing school and uses her favorite color RED.

I love the Reds and neutrals. I don't have much gray so this is very interesting to me. My cat is always around me when I sew or cut. Was in lasts years quilt, at some time I will quilt that one.

Here is the link to Bonnie's link up:  http://quiltville.blogspot.in/2015/11/mystery-monday-link-up-allietare-part-1.html

I enjoyed some Italian music while completing this clue.

I have a dedicated blog for this quilt and this is the link:  http://allietarecherith.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

Beginning this year's quiltville mystery....clue 1

So excited to begin this mystery. This is the first year I have been retired so done no this one slowly. This is the progress as of this evening.

110 of the 300 blocks. So fun!

Here is the link my dedicated blog for this project: http://allietarecherith.blogspot.com/

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Allietare inspiration....wild and goosey

The days are passing and soon the mystery will begin. Someone gave me the idea of doing the wild and Goosey blocks in same colors as the mystery. I had some swatches that had the colors an some scraps so worked on these yesterday. So cute...maybe a pillow?

Evenings I continue working on my English Manor Carson Theme quilt. It is on the last side border and then I have a small border to do. I found the perfect fabric for the prairie points, but had to order it on line. 

Then another wonderful surprise, the book from Ebony with the picture of my quilts. The front and back of the large one and the miniature quilt. 

Then doing some wild and Goosey blocks in the upcoming mystery colors....so fun.

Gypsy queen. Is coming to an end...here is last clue before assembly of all the pieces next week.

Is this the layout????

Playing with scraps...

I have accumulated a lot of scraps from my recent and past quilt projects. I have saved them like others. Bonnie Hinter has been by cheerleader on scraps and wonderful ideas to incorporate them into quilting. The past few days I have been sewing "wild and goosey" blocks. I have of course been addicted like so many others. Yesterday put a few together along with some string blocks. I listened to a quilt cam that reviewed how to do these. The below is the final result. So pleased that I will use the scraps from the upcoming mystery to make dedicated blocks.

So pleased that I will continue the blocks and use the drive to AZ to remove paper backing.

Downton Abbey English Manor -Team Carson

Final quilting pattern for final border of quilt. ? Maybe finish end of the week???

http://carson-downton-abby-2015.blogspot.com/

Tumblers and Wild & Goosey...

Decided to thin down some of the tumblers cut and redo some that are not the right size as I was cutting them is mass amounts while sorting fabric. In the process decided to try Bonnie Hunters Wild and Goosey paper piecing blocks. I have not done much paper piecing but decided to try it with some of the reject tumbler blocks. It is true you cannot do just one. So I will work on a few of these and maybe would be good to remove paper back on trip down to AZ in January. Just passing the time waiting for this years quiltville mystery to begin. BLACK FRIDAY!!!!!

Gypsy Queen...in final weeks...a little work on Tumblers...

Freezer cleaning on the agenda today. Not much left in freezer, need to use up most by January prior to travels to AZ.

I did two blocks for Gypsy Queen...hope that is enough as it is hard to divide 5 blocks in half. May have to improvise. The it was on to tumblers until Cherith called with nursing questions. Currently hand quilting.

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