A Whole Lot of Mysteries Going on!

Here is clue 5 of Indigo Way.  I chose this brown fabric with other colors for my "special" fabric last minute.  It has several of the colors from the quilt so it should work.

                                        

                                        

Here is clue 6 which I finished yesterday.  Very excited to be keeping up with Indigo Way!

Here is the completed cutting for tomorrow's Merry Mayhem Case # 148 Twist and Shout!

While Becky and Barb were sewing (and I was all caught up), I needed something to sew, so finally got around to this paper pieced snowman! Pretty sure I first saw it on Kathy's Quilts in 2008!  It marinated a long time.  The pattern seems to not be available anymore on Wendy's Quilting Place where it originated from.

This is a little bothy house.  Apparently a thing in Scotland.  I had to have one for my bookshelf!  Crazy, but so cute!

 Here is clue two of Cuts and Bolts New Year's Eve 2023 mystery quilt.  Sewing today, so on to clue 3!

Indigo Way Clue 4 and Two Mystery Flimsies Come Together!

I participated in the game exchange this year in one of my facebook groups (I missed it last year) and am thrilled to finally own Wingspan!  I cannot wait to play it.  Thanks Secret Santa!

                                      
Kathy hung a clothesline up high in my sewing room!  Super excited to have some of my little quilts on display.  I have two drape rods hung (one in bedroom and one in living room) and I change out the table topper size quilts by season on both of those.  I also use seasonal table runners and table toppers, but I still have many small quilts that are not getting displayed.  I may have to get Kathy to hang another clothesline or figure out another way to showcase the little ones.  I used to change them out (on the fireplace) but that is not a good plan with them way up high and with a pushpinned clothesline!  Considering covering the outer half of the closet door since it is white space.  Any other ideas for displaying all my little quilts?

This is Kathleen Tracey's Winter Mystery Quilt 2023.  Three little parts that came together really quickly.  She has a facebook group and surprises us with fun stuff like this occasionally.

This one is Kim Diehl's Double-Dipped Mystery.  She also had this in a table topper.  I really like how this one came out!  It was also three parts and came together quickly.  Both of these mini mysteries were made by Barb and Becky too.  Not sure if they have theirs both done yet though.  The three of us have a standing sewing day of Thursdays and if I am well enough I join them for as long as I can manage.

Clue 4 of Indigo Way had me buying a giant box of clips.  I got it finished two days before clue 5 came out (which I am starting today).

Last Thursday I chose fabrics, did the cutting and the presewing for the Cuts and Bolts NYE mystery.  I am making the baby size to I went with blue, lighter blue, pink and yellow.

 Yesterday Indie had an appointment, so Dad took the day off and took her to it, but we kept Hazel anyway.  Kathy had the day off so we made cutout cookies with Hazel.  She loved rolling out the cookies and later frosting/eating the frosting!  They taste great (might be the best cut out cookies I have ever made).  I also used the frosting recipe from The Preppy Kitchen.

Progress on Indigo Way Mystery Quilt

I made a cute little bag for Coleman's family for Christmas.  I put a large travelling checker game in there for them to take camping.

Here is my oops from En Provence (I think) that could possibly wind up in a second colorway of Indigo Way.  Since I made the first clue in the wrong color and already have this one, I am practically halfway there.  Doubt it will happen, but you never know.

Here is clue three of Indigo Way complete.  I have one extra set I think.  
 

My Quilting Mojo is Going Strong!

Clue one of Indigo Way is complete.  Clue two in progress here.

                                                 

                                        I finished up clue two yesterday...just in time for clue three tomorrow.

                                     

                                    

Kathleen Tracey Winter Mystery clue one.

And clue two!

Kim Diehl Double-Dipped Mystery Stitchalong clues one, two and three are done.

A Quilting Life BOM--last block is done.  I picked out the sashing and border fabric too.

I need to make two more stars for tiny cornerstones.  They are in progress.

 

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day Mystery Options!

 There are so many mystery quilt options for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day this year.

Cuts and Bolts should be doing a NYE mystery which I plan to do this year.  I did not join in last year and loved BJ's quilt.  So I am on it this year.

Here are my fabric picks for Debi Montgomery's Mystery Quilts Anonymous.  This one starts on NYE at 2 pm my time which is NYD her time.  I am not for sure I am doing this one yet, but pulled fabric in case.  She has a webpage and a facebook page if you are interested.

I will for sure do Merry Mayhem (along with Barb, Becky, and BJ) on NYD.  The info is out for prep work so I need to get going on that.  It is scrappy so I have not picked any fabrics yet. Edit:  Here are my fabrics.  I used the floral to pick my fabrics so it is controlled ish scrappy.  Looking forward to it!

Another NYD option is the Stitchin Heaven mystery quilt.  Last year they paired with Craftsy and the quilt had a zillion hst's.  It was not a one day type mystery.  Not sure if they have improved this year, but info for cutting is already out.  I will be sitting this one out unless I love it and then I will do it down the line.  

Are you doing any of these mysteries?  Do you know of any on NYE or NYD that I have missed?  Happy Sewing!

  

 

Indigo Way Gets Going!

I changed my mind about my colors for Indigo Way several times, but in the end I wound up with brown, cheddar, and indigo.  The first clue had Bonnie using indigo, and I followed suit.  Made about two thirds of the parts before I realized her indigo is my brown!  Oops, so I then started over and made all of the clue in brown.  You may remember I did this once before with a clue in En Provence!  

                                                     

                                           

I made two more Christmas stockings.  These are for Wren and Chava, I think!

Here is one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge tops.  I did not have the same amount of each color in this size, and I did not lay them out ahead of time (room is too small) but I like how it came out anyway.  May add a border to it eventually.

I had leftover green and red stars so I started a Christmas table runner.

Super excited to be doing the Secret Agent Modern Quiltalong in January.  I ordered the transparency fabric line and am super excited for this one this year!

 

Halloween and Indigo Way Fabric Picks!

Hazel wore my daughter's Little Red Riding Hood costume for some of her Halloween activities this year (she was Wonder Woman too).  So fun to see her in it.  Hannah wore this one when we lived in Maryland and she was almost three.  This year we stayed home and passed out leftover Halloween goodies from when I was teaching.  We had quite a few kids.  

I cleaned through a bunch of Kathy's sewing stuff and since she is not sewing much these days, I added the fabric to my sewing stuff and sewed up her partially done top.  This is made with terrible black fabric from before we knew what we were doing.  Likely to use it for the dogs or something because the black should have been tossed.  She already had it sewn on though so I finished putting it together.

Quilted and bound my little witch.

Did the November Quilting Life BOM too.

 Picked out my fabric for the Quiltville 2023 Mystery--Indigo Way. Fun that my granddaughter's name is in this year's mystery!  I am sure I am going to regret these colors since Bonnie has two shades of blue in her and I should go with two shades of something ( I am using brown and orange for that) and also will be confusing that I am using blue where she has red (since she also has blue).  The last time I tried that I made an entire clue in the wrong colors and I still have those parts since I had to redo them.  Really need to find a quilt to use them in!

Ghosts and Witches!

Here is the next BOM for A Quilting Life.  Keeping all caught up!

Hazel told me I needed more Halloween decorations so I whipped up a couple ghost pillows.  I will send one home with her.  

Then today I decided I needed one to match the little ghost who was a quilt quilt!  So I sewed with Becky and Barb and got this made today.

Last week I quilted and bound it and Hazel has been loving it.  Has napped with it, used it to play with her beans, etc.  

Today I also paper pieced this witch which has been on my list for many years!  I love how she came out and she will join the jack o lantern and black cat I did years ago.  All the patterns are free ones online.