Indigo Way is a Flimsy, a Wedding, and my RSC!

I am all caught up on A Quilting Life's BOM and my Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2024.  I went back and made a second January block in green and then made two blocks in purple for March.  Loving these scrappy blocks!

For Christmas Becky sent me a Halloween table runner.  It arrived in early February I think, but accidentally went to our old Milwaukee address.  The people there took it in their house and their dog got to the package.  They thought it was not damaged, but one green square was ripped apart.  I did not want to mention it to Becky (I love this table runner) so I got a spider and sewed it over the top.  Looks even better!  I have one more smaller spider that I might just add to the other side!

Last weekend my goddaughter (and niece from ex hubby's side) got married nearby.  She lives in Milwaukee.  Kelsey and Tony have been together for ten years and finally decided to marry.  She was a beautiful bride and I predict many happy years for the two of them!  Hazel was the flower girl which was super cute.  

I held Indie for about ninety minutes (the whole ceremony and some of the dinner/reception) and as far as I know there are no pictures of it.  Kathy had her for five minutes, but I got a picture.  Indie is such a snuggler and a happy baby.  She has a helmet til April for a slightly wrongly shaped head.  It is pretty much fixed now.  She looks so cute with her helmet and when we take it off we barely recognize her.  She wears it 23 hours a day.

Here are Kelsey and Tony with Talkin Turkey which I gave them for their wedding.  It looks like they love it!  This was a hard one to part with, but I can see they appreciate it! 

                          

Now on to my big finish!  I had two days in a row of sewing this week!  Indie started daycare so I have the girls two days a week now (instead of a third day with Indie) so I am recovering a bit better and can sew more.

I had the top together the end of February and was putting off trimming it and getting the borders on. I did not follow the directions correctly as I thought I could take a shortcut, haha!  So I had to add a partial unit to the end of my border to make it work out.

My corners are not great and I am not sure this is perfectly square, but Indigo Way is done.  I love how the colors came out.
 

There is not enough room to lay this out in the living room.  I had to move furniture, and it is still on top of a chair leg.  So happy to have this one done!

Secret Agent Mystery and Indigo Way Mystery Coming Along!

Here is the last clue for the Secret Agent Mystery Quiltalong  We had to cut things apart and do a bit of sewing before putting our top together.

I ironed most of my seams open since I had to pin like never before to make things line up just so.  I redid several blocks if they were off by more than a 16th of an inch.  

I did press all along, but it still needs another good press before quilting.  Here is my completed top.  I had no trouble with the first half of this, but the second half (the next day) was a bear.  I sewed the parts backwards on the right side bottom and had to take them all apart and do them again.  I felt like I did it the same as the day before, but clearly I did not!  I also did not use the right blocks in the right side (we had alpha a and alpha b type blocks but I used both a's in the top half, which somehow worked out (though the seam is in a different spot, see cherry corner block inside the yellow eye break strip) but in the second half of the quilt one block would not work without unsewing and fixing.  So this may just be the hardest quilt top I have ever assembled!  

I love it anyway!  I am so excited to tick transparency quilt off of my bucket list, and I hope to make another transparency quilt in the future now that I have some experience with it.

This past weekend I participated in my fourth online reading retreat with the Booktube Besties (and 50 other people) and it was so much fun as always!  I completed this book and this fun puzzle.  This is the bookmark they sent us.  We made a friendship bracelet, and we did a book exchange.  I got "Bride" by Ali Hazelwood in the mail today for that.

Yesterday (I no longer have Indie on Mondays as she now goes to daycare) I finally was able to assemble Indigo Way!  It needs trimming and borders but is coming along nicely.  I thought this would be tough to assemble since one of the blocks is turned differently every row, but despite not being able to lay it out it went together well!  I only had to unsew two sets of end blocks. One row I put on backwards and the other was when I got to the two centers.  Other than that it was great!  

I need to press the center parts on this one too!

 

Merry Mayhem #148 NYD Mystery 2024

 Today BJ and I sewed online (and Andrea popped in).  She was working on her Cuts and Bolts mystery, and I was working on my surprise clue seven from Indigo Way.  As usual I did the math wrong and this time instead of cutting half the units, I cut double the units.  I have many leftover that I can sew or bag up for future.  I need to put these hourglass blocks into the blocks, but that is for tomorrow maybe.

This is the bonus Eye Spy quilt I managed to get sewed while working on the mysteries this year.  I need to add a border to it.

The following pictures are in backwards order of clues for Merry Mayhem.  I am loving how my blocks came out (I have more blocks than what is pictured) and have decided to add the sashing, but to swap out the light colored cornerstones and use either all red, or red, green and dark blue.

I like it okay without the sashing too, but since the sashing is already cut and makes it bigger, I may as well use it.

These blocks are Becky's.  Looking forward to seeing how all three of ours turn out!

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.