Linky Number Three Coming Right Up!

 I stopped at the store to pick up some sand colored fabrics so I could complete clue three however I just was not finding what I wanted but the three sun colored fabrics above did call to me.  I decided that sun and sand were about interchangeable and that that it made for a better combination so a swap was had.  So interestingly, my clue three matched Bonnie's...hers may be more gold than mine but mine is sunny.  I pulled from my matching scraps and have a lot of variety.

Linking up with Quiltville as soon as the linky is up (and I am too!).  I am behind on last weeks linky visits.

I spent a good bit of Sunday attaching the sashing to Talkin' Turkey!  I laid them out on the bed and switched them around a zillion times.  No permanent decision yet, but at least this UFO is coming along!

I haven't figured out how to handle the sashing.  In Bonnie's quilt nine patches are formed where the sashing meets (all in red because her blocks are all red in mine four colors are meeting.I am thinking about doing a rainbow in the center block for all of them or just a random different color that isn't in the cornerstones.  If you have any ideas to share, feel free!  I want to keep working on this one since it is for my PUP challenge and needs to be done by July!

Pre-Mystery UFO Progress!

Thanks to Jo and Kelli over at Jo's Country Junction I am feeling excited to make progress on my Talkin' Turkey!  I managed to make a whole bunch more blocks at camp this year, but now to finish the last few blocks, getting the sashing and cornerstones cut and get the center of the top assembled!

Fall Quilt Camp 2015

Here are the digs at camp.  Nothing fancy at all.  I have gotten really good at wrangling myself in and out of the coffin bed! Seriously that is not the easiest bed to slip in and out of when you need to pee in the middle of the night!

 I made a quick baby quilt (pattern is on Craft Nectar's blog and is called Simple Gifts) for Colton's birth mom  because she is having a little girl and will be raising her. I think seeing him growing up (she is good friend's with my brother who is raising him) made her  realize she does want a child.  I only hope a baby sister who lives elsewhere enriches his life.  I love this gal for letting us love on Colton all his life.

 I did manage to do my brown Quiltmaker  bitty block trees. TOO FUN!  I also made Mac this cute Mr. Bones wallhaning. I will gift it to him and Liz.  I just need to get it quilted.

 Pat was kind enough to make each of us an embroidery heart to make into a pincushion at camp!  More than this were made but not all made it into the picture.  Here is Pat with my pincushion!

 After lunch on Saturday I managed to get Kathy O. and Judy to go for a hike with me after lunch Saturday.  They were planning on a walk but it was nice to have people to go with since my usual hiking/quilting buddies were not at camp this time!

 I sewed for a few hours after that and then decided that I needed to really hit it and went out alone with my ipod.

Pretty happy with my pace since this was uphill ish and I was alone.  Really felt great after!  Took a shower, had some dinner and then was ready for our quilt auction!

Edna won the sign Kathy made for me to auction off and Pat won my Christmas Past and Presents.  She has a Deaf niece that signs and was tickled with my ily hand label.  Thanks again Barb for quilting it and binding it.

I took this picture (then made one more block after) just so I could see what I had going on.  I do not plan to lay it out with this layout, lol I will play before it gets sashed!  I still have two blocks to do, sashing and the border which is pieced.  Happy my PUP saw some progress though!  These blocks are labor intensive and I felt like I didn't get as far as I would have liked--I brought Garden Party with me but did not get to it at all!

 We hung our quilts out for a show on Sunday morning.  It is always nice to see what all got made!  I love Marguerite's Love Shack quilt and I have moved that one up my list!

Here are Terri and I.  We had a blast and it was so nice to catch up with her since she has been busy going to baseball games the same night as guild.  I should start seeing her more often now that that is done!

PUP Challenge

At my Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild meeting tonight we had our annual PUPS Challenge.  We brought in three Poor Unfinished Projects and shared why they weren't finished and then the group voted on which one was our challenge to complete before the following July meeting.  I am SUPER STOKED that they picked Talkin' Turkey!  I have eleven blocks done (goal is 24) and in the past month I have done the string piecing for these blocks because I was hoping it would get picked.  Lots of work left to go on the blocks, and the border too.  So excited to get this one back out again!  For those of you looking for the pattern, the block can be found in Quiltmaker’s 100 blocks by 100 designers vol 5 and the full quilt pattern is in Bonnie's  "String Fling."

Not chosen were Playing with Jacks and my not yet started Quilty Barn Along.