Yeah Halloween 🎃🎃🎃

 Long hot summer is over, my gardens are put to bed until spring and today is Bonnie Hunter’s  mystery color reveal!  Aqua, purple and orange. I may substitute red for orange (not a favorite) and switch around the amounts in each color.   I haven’t done anything in my sewing room all summer..my machine is covered in dust!  It needs to go for yearly service, so in the meantime I’ll gather my fabrics in the lead up to Black Friday!

Here’s some summer flowers

August

 It’s slightly cooler than awful July, hooray. I read about the Fat quarter shop’s Charm Square Challenge and since I have a ton of 5” squares I put a top together. Quick and easy already putting together a second one

Also GEDesigns had a sew along and I’m just a sewing rows together, the quilt is Kimberly no photo yet

Hot hot July

 It is too hot to sew! But I finally did put the binding on the last quilt I was working on!  There’s a mystery starting the end of July plus GEDesigns is having a quilt along coming up soon…getting excited about these!

Slowly getting back to the sewing room

 I got stuck because after starting the quilting on my Strip Tease quilt I decided I didn’t like how the quilting looked. So for the first time ever I picked out all the quilting. Then it sat for awhile deciding how to requilt it.  Started to do wavy line down the columns and after a few rows I couldn’t get my machine to feed properly with the walking foot. So changed to organic wavy lines and finished it that way. I have to say this is the worst quilting I’ve ever done!  But it is finished and after a quick wash it’ll be fine. 

Then i have  another one to be quilted, “Hey June” but I’m beginning to doubt my abilities…or maybe my Bernina just needs to get its annual service!

Today I-located a place to send my two quilts for Ukraine, and in my backyard, sort of, Wrap Ukraine With Quilts by Hello Cottons in Lehi, Utah.

Hey June, one year later

 Gudrun of GE Designs ran this day long quilt along last June 2021. I didn’t get around to participating, but decided to give it a try before the year was up.  Rows laid out ready to sew  will have a border  sure needs a pop of color, but now that I know now how it goes together, I’d like to try some jazzy fabrics, same with the Strip Tease pattern,  it seems to take me a test run before I get how it’s constructed!  Perhaps I’m too old to do this anymore, but why do I keep buying fabric!!

Here it is sewn together with the border.  Pink flamingos!  Ready to quilt and donate!

Strip Tease

 This is now put together, might add a border. Such a sweet little quilt!

Did add a border…ready to quilt!

Clue 1 and 2

 I had originally intended this quilt to be scrappy. But I didn’t like how it looked so rearranged what I had to be matching and redoing a few squares. Now I like how it looks. I’m going to wait for the last clue although I could go ahead and sew it together