Easy Street Sees Progress!

Tonight I sewed with Kathy and we got on Skype and sewed with Barb and Kathy too!  So much more fun...Kathy worked on her clue and Barb on Christmas gifts.

 My flying geese went from this to this tonight!

 So here are all the mystery parts and I am all caught up, whew!  I am really enjoying how easy it is to keep up this time around.  Bonnie knew we needed an easy mystery and I can't even tell you how much easier this seems than Orca Bay (which by the way was worth it!).

 And Kathy got her clue three done tonight too!  She was in Mass all last week so didn't get in any sewing, but hopefully will now have a chance to get caught up this week!  I am really impressed with her.  The last Bonnie mystery she attempted was Orange Crush and while she helped, really I made two Orange Crushes! So this time she is doing it all on her own and pretty much keeping up!

 No pictures yet, but Kathy's niece Megan is doing her first mystery ever and she just finished clue two!  Whoot whoot.  Here in Arizona in addition to the three of us, my quilting friends BJ, Ros, Jacki, Becky, Kathy and Barb are making this quilt too.  That is nine of us that I know of!  Bonnie rocks our world!!!

 In other news, my amazing daughter Hannah graduated from UW-Oshkosh this morning from the School of Business in Accounting!  The bad news is, at the last minute, I was unable to be there....here she is with her younger brother Mac.

 The good news is the folks at UWO live streamed the graduation, so Kathy, Randy and I sat in front of the computer and saw Hannah coming to her seat, heard the speeches and got pictures and video of her getting her diploma!  I couldn't be prouder of her if I tried.  Congratulations Hannah--Oh the Places You Will Go!

She already has a job lined up when she finishes the intern job she has now, but she is planning on studying like mad to pass her CPA before she starts that job in July.  Crossing my fingers she passes, sounds like one heck of a battery of tests!  Whoot, Whoot.

We had a challenge at PHXMQG which met today...to make disappearing nine FOUR patch blocks to donate to Erin for Hurricane Sandy survivors.  Here is a smattering of them, we had almost 30 total!  I made more tonight the top two blocks on the left were the colors I did tonight.  Will be sending them out on Monday.  And on to the next challenge which is drawstring backpacks for kids in crisis.  

See other people's progress on Easy Street at Quiltville.  I finally accidentally learned how to embed a link in here!  WHOOT WHOOT!

Still Stepping Down Easy Street!

 Spent some time today with Megan working on Easy Street.  She is doing clue two but hopefully will get caught up now that she has one of the rulers she needs and we cut the other pieces.  Kathy was finishing up her clue three and is still working on.  She did a little miscutting and had to do some recutting.

 Once I got back home and made chicken enchiladas for tomorrows Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild Holiday Party I set up shop in the quilting studio with Bonnie Hunter on QuiltCam and continued on clue four.  Loving the colors!  As you can see I went a bit nuts and made too many of these.  I may wind up with extras in the border or something.  So then I started putting them together and stopped a little past halfway.  We also cut about two thirds of the lime squares and got strips ready for the rest of them.

 I guess with this picture cropped funny you can't even really see they are twosies of geese, but they are.  In other news, we have been praying for those in Connecticut that are affected by the tragedy in Newtown. Breaks my heart that innocent children were terrorized and even killed in their own school.  My heart goes out to them and I have no words of solace because there just can't be any.
My daughter Hannah (pictured with me here at her high school graduation four and a half years ago) graduates from UW-Oshkosh in Accounting tomorrow morning.  I was unable to make the trip back to Wisconsin due to some unforseen circumstances.  December has been hard on us.

I couldn't be more proud of Hannah.  She is an amazing young woman, beautiful inside and out and now that she did what I asked (got a four year college degree before having children or marrying) I have promised to support her in whatever she wants to do.  If she shaves her head and moves to a third world country I can not say a word against it!  Hannah has always been my easy child between the boys and I wish I was there with her as she crosses another stage.  I will be watching it live stream online and I am sure I will be bawling all the way in Arizona.  

A set of Christmassy napkins I made today for Hannah.  Sending out lots of Christmas boxes tomorrow--late for me because we thought we were driving there with them all!