Secret Agent Mystery and More!

Here is the key to my Secret Agent Mystery.  

We made a pocket as part of the first mission.

Everyone is doing fun posts with their agent names, so here is mine!

Here is the second mission, completed yesterday.

And here is my second mission post.  As you can see, Ros decided to join in the fun and do this mystery too!  Dr. Kathy is also doing it.  Super fun!

I also managed to finish the Cuts and Bolts mystery for 2023.  Love how it came out with my controlled scrappy choices based on the border fabric.
                                                 

I also got my A Quilting Life BOM top together.  Also super happy with how this one came out!

                                                

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.

 

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.

September Sewing Homework!

Aqua is the color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge for September.   Four blocks in two different sizes.

Also did the next block for A Quilting Life's BOM.  

 Here are all the blocks for that so far.  Looking forward to it coming together.

I also got the binding made for another quilt and it is half attached.  Hopefully today I will get the other half of it done.  

Two Wedding Quilts, Two BOM's, Two Grandbabies! TOO BLESSED!

Now that I have a table in my library/office I have really gotten into puzzles (and audiobooks).  Here is a quilty one I made last week.  

Here are my A Quilting Life BOM blocks.  Keeping up with them!

This is my Dakota Farmer Rainbow Scrap Challenge block and below, more of them.  I have many of these blocks in different colors and sizes and am looking forward to seeing them come together into quilts.  I think next year I am going to do Bonnie's new Morning Glories paper pieced pattern.  I enjoy paper piecing but like the idea of doing a few a month instead of all at once!  I love that pattern too.  Linking up with Angela.  

                                        

In other big news, Hazel has a baby sister!  Meet Indigo Avolyn!  Indie was born on August 10th (just barely) and is the sweetest angel!  Hazel is loving being a big sister (and turns three next month).  

 

Look how proud Hazel is of Indie!  Hannah and Jeremy have their hands fuller!

AND!!!  Coleman's oldest stepdaughter Hailey and her fiance Chava had Wren Randall on August 13th.  Here is big brother Matteo (last you saw his pic he was barely bigger than this!).  He looks pretty proud too!  

Hazel and I picked some of our plantings the other day.  Lots of tomatoes and some green beans.  

Hailey and Chava are getting married Labor Day weekend.  He is joining the Army and will soon go off to training.  This quilt will be their wedding gift.  I made this one with 35th Ave. BOM 2017 and it has been waiting for its forever home.  I hope they love it. (I did refold it differently in hopes the fold marks will disappear in transit!)

My honorary daughter Rachel is also getting married in Norway.  This is another 35th Ave.  Kaleidoscope of Kolor 2013 that has been waiting too.  Very happy to get these quilts out in the mail.  

 

Princess Crown and More!

Our daughter and son in law got us a long weekend together in Door County for Christmas and we picked up this little goat for our Christmas ornament this year to remember the trip.  We did many fun things with Hazel that we had not done when Hannah and I went five years ago, including the goat parade in Sister's Bay.  We did play a new game called Mantis which we really enjoyed.  We took the long way there because Mom and Dad (now in Marshfield) watched the dogs.  We played Nine Golf the night we spent with them as it is Mom's favorite!

A few weeks ago I sewed the June A Quilting Life BOM.  Love how it came out.  I also spent the last few weeks cutting two and sewing one Princess Crown quilt.

Sunshine loves it!

It is quite scrappy. Plan is for it to be for Hannah's next daughter..due mid August.  We cannot wait!

Picked up this fun Grease fabric at a Goodwill.  The price was right!

                                                 

This is the HUGE tree in our front yard.  It is a Capella tree.  It has pretty flowers but they fall all over and stick to everything!  Then in the fall it will drop huge pods all over too.  Good thing it is gorgeous!  I sat outside one day and read my book and enjoyed the view and the shade.  We have no trees in the fence in the backyard but have two huge spruce trees--one is a blue spruce and the other maybe a white spruce just outside of our fence.  We had to get an umbrella for the table because there was no shade back there!