Arizona Huggy Bunch and Cal's Spring Mystery

 This post is picture heavy.  Here is the Arizona Huggy Bunch in action.  June did some hand sewing on her hexies.  And the rest of us sewed away.  Four of us were working on Cal's Spring 2012 Mystery.

 Here are mine and Kathy's first blocks.

 Mine with the pinwheel layout that I didn't wind up going with.  I thought it was too busy.

 Here is the layout I went with (below).

 These are BJ's layout choices.  She went with the pinwheels below.  We liked her fabric in that layout but Ros, Kathy and I all went with the other layout.

 These are Ros' layout choices.

 Samantha finished her first quilt ever!  She started sewing with us three weeks ago and is now up to quilting it.

 Here is mine coming together.  This will be for my cousin Ashley who is getting married this fall.

 Finally snapped a picture of Ros' block.  Ros helped me tons with my new featherweight (more on that later) which I had never sewed on.  I then switched to her featherweight...or was going to, but the switch was acting up on the light so I wound up sewing on her Pfaff (THANKS ROS!) which is an awesome machine.  Ros was also helping Samantha with every step of the way and so didn't get so far on her mystery as we did, but she will get it done in no time.  She is a fabulous host of our huggy bunch!

 Alissa showed us some blocks she had made.  She does beautiful work.

 Here is Alissa working on her paper pieced mixer block.  Now we all want to make one!

 She has to add the mixing bowl, but doesn't that look great?

 Kathy was the first one done, that has never happened before, so I told her that she has graduated from quilting school, lol.

 Here is Kathy's finished quilt top!  She is going to give this to her dad for a lap quilt.  He is Irish and the fabric is all about shamrocks and such so he will love it!

 And here is mine for my cousin Ashley and soon to be hubby Ches.  I hope they love it!

Preparing for Cal's Spring Mystery!

Kathy and I spent the day at June's working on her sewing room.  We got through all the rest of the fabric and sorted through all that was there for some organization.  We hauled a bunch of stuff back to June's for the sale.  There is still so much to do, but June and I are having a good time doing it anyway!  

Cal is doing a mystery on June 2nd and Ros, BJ, Kathy, June and I (and anyone else we can convince) will be gathering at Ros' to work on it.  I love mysteries but only seem to have time for one to two each year.  The first picture is of my fabric choices.  June passed on the cute suitcase fabric which I snapped up because it has "Paris" on it and my cousin Ashley loves all things Paris so this will be her wedding quilt for fall.  I had to pick some matching colors from my now substantial stash and came up with these.  I had to add more of the reddish color in another fabric too.  It was from the same line so it will work fine, but it has a pattern on it.  Oh well, I am NOT buying any fabric lol!  I think it will be cute and I will most likely put the other Paris fabric I bought which doesn't match and was only one yard on the back.  

Kathy decided to make her Dad a lap quilt since they are Irish.  She went with the snoopy stuff for the pop fabric with the solid as the second most fabric and the shamrock last.  I am sure it will be busy but her dad will love it!

So Kathy and I cut all the clues up and put them in labeled bags.  I also folded some bigger chunks of fabric and cut some bow ties for the Cheddary Challenge (I did sew up a half a dozen of them yesterday).  I also sewed some pinwheel blocks for Jack in the Box in yellow but didn't take a picture.