A Boquet of Hexies

 Last Sunday during that awful Packer game that I am trying to forget, I sewed up this little hexie.

Here is the boquet I have so far.  Two to go, I guess I better think about making the rest of the top so I have something to attach these to! 
I am workign til 4 today (on break now) and then I will be watching Bonnie on QuiltCam as I sew up clue two of Easy Street...at least that is the plan!

Sunday Sewing Day :)

Today Kathy and I went over to Megan's to show her how to do clue one of Bonnie's Easy Street Mystery. It is her first mystery!  Ayla wanted to be crafty too so I let her work on knitting my dishcloth.  I taught her mom a year or two ago and she taught Ayla.  Funny how easy it is for the younger set!  She took right to it with the wrap to make the hole and all!  

  

Working on twosies that quickly became foursies!  Kathy helped with the ironing and some of the cutting too.

While Megan (below) worked on her four patches for Easy Street, I worked on light and dark four patches for Tobacco Road.  That is the only mystery of Bonnie's that I haven't done, so I figured I would just do it at my leisure.  I pulled my two inch strips and just went for scrappy lights and darks.  Kathy had already made 18 of the four patches, now we have what we need for the whole quilt.  

Megan decided to do half of Bonnie's amounts and make a smaller quilt for her first mystery so she was well into that when we left to watch the Packer game.  Don't even ask how that went, it isn't over yet, but it isn't looking good!  Despite that I made two Packer green and gold Moth in the Window blocks while watching the game.  Bonnie posted about her Moth in the Window http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/11/my-moths-have-flown-coop.html and even mentioned misplacing the block I sent her (I know it will turn up with others she has put in the perfect place, lol!) and that got me motivated to add to my blocks.

 So after those two, I had seven.  I wanted more!

 I did four more.  Pretty happy with how they are coming out even though I was set up downstairs and using my mini iron which really doesn't get hot enough for these homespun fabrics.  Thinking I should dig out my Dad's leftover plaid shirts and see if any of them would work in here too!

Well I better get busy with my handsewn hexie...I haven't started it yet and the game is 3/4's over.  Then I better get some prepping in for teaching this week.  Back to work tomorrow!

Riding Down "Easy Street!"

Bonnie's mystery has begun!  Kathy--sewing buddy invited Barb, Becky, Kathy and I over to sew the first clue together.  It was even more fun to be working on the mystery as a group than it it normally is at home.  None of us finished the first clue yesterday while together, but it was fun gabbing and sewing along.  All of us are copying Bonnie's colors this time except for Kathy who has changed it up a bit.  Today at home I finished up Clue one and Kathy is about 30 four patches shy of done.  

I also got my box of quilted quilts back from Joanne!  I trimmed them all up and attached the binding on to Coleman's so far.  Also cut up the leftover backing bits into strips for my color coordinated buckets.  Whoot, whoot!
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-11-26T12:00:00-05:00&max-results=2 if you want to see how others are coming on the mystery!

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!  

Handsewn Hexies and a Pack Win!

 I sewed up the greyish flower with the purple center today by hand while watching the Packers beat the Lyons.  I then had enough time to trim and glue the remaining three flowers.

With any luck these will be done by Christmas and I can get to making the Hexagon Flowers Doll Quilt by Kathleen Tracy of Sentimental Stitches.  

Sunday Funday!

 Can't recall if I posted my sock again here or just on facebook!  Here is the first sock I did over a year ago now I believe....and the second sock that I had started..I have now ripped out most of the errors and have started working on it again...slowly.  I pretty much forgot everything I knew so I am kicking myself for putting it down.  Pretty sure I will be taking another class on this personal footprints method.  Meanwhile I signed up for a Crafsy class and was going to start that, but felt guilty for not finishing these..so am working on this first, I think.

 This morning I whipped up two pillowcases (following Weeks Ringle's free pattern) with the batman fabric I bought yesterday on sale at 35th Ave.  These will be for Mac for Christmas.  He loves all things comic so every time I see fabric with comics I get the urge to make him something.  Hope he likes them.

I also forgot to post a picture of the grey pinwheels so here they are and I can link up with SoScrappy's blog.  

Packer game on soon, so I will be handsewing my hexies.  I need to grade papers but just can't quite seem to get there...have been reading lots of books lately, but need to switch gears!

PHXMQG Meeting was Today!

We had our PHXMQG meeting today, and 24 people were there.  It was a great bunch, a mix of friends and friends yet to be made!  I won this cool pattern which I really love!  Polka dots always make me smile.  Can't wait to try it out...thanks go to Jona who got some freebies at Quilt Market to give away as door prizes.  I have never heard of this designer, so I will be checking her out!

 LOVE it even more when I see the quilting in this picture.  Seriously amazing!  Pictures borrowed from Patty Young.

 Here is our whole group except for me and Alyssa who were snapping photos!  Oh and Gina who left before we took the picture.  A very diverse group of talented quilters!

 Here is BJ with her quilt.  It is bright as always.  I can't recall the pattern name, but BJ told me we all bought it together recently.  I need to go find it...cute!  BJ and Jacki drove up early and we went to 35th Ave. on our side of town, to the Good Egg (AAA had to come because someone (and it wasn't Ros who was out of town, lol) forgot her keys in the car's ignition!) then we went to SAS for a quick stop.  And I mean quick, we were out of there in a flash, grabbed some drinks and hit this meeting.  I haven't taken pictures of my purchases yet!

 It made my day that they were both there and that they seem to be planning to join the PHXMQG!  That will be so awesome...they are both fun to hang around and put up with me with style.

I had asked on the PHXMQG blog if anyone wanted to make disappearing nine patches to give to Erin to make quilts and send on to the Hurricane survivors.  Bonnie met the challenge with these seven blocks (to add to my six) and BJ cut some out so on December 1st I will be mailing them out!  

Our meeting was a good one, we did tons of planning and brainstorming for the next year.  If you want to check out that blog www.phoenixmodernquiltguild.com/2012/11/november-meeting-minutes.html to see what we are up to!  If you are in the Phoenix area, consider coming to our next meeting and seeing if the group is for you!

A MODERN Win!

Over at Sew Mama Sew! http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2012/11/winners-handmade-holidays-more/#comment-666014
I won this fabulous modern book!  I can't wait to get my hands on it.  I am so excited, other than fabric my favorite thing in the world is books! (and coffee, and chocolate, and ice cream..do you sense a theme here?).
I am getting more and more exicited about sewing more modern style things with the Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild gals sharing all of their stuff on their blogs and at our meetings.  It is so refreshing!  I am also loving my Weeks Ringle class and getting to see all of her modern quilts in a personal quilt show!  Don't get me wrong I still love my scrappy stuff ala Bonnie Hunter and Quiltville but I am really starting to think about what to make next MODERN!  We have a meeting this Saturday for PMQG and we will be deciding what we will be doing for the next year.  I am rather hoping we wind up with a BOM of some kind in the modern style or a challenge BOM.  Not because I can do much with that but because I would love to see what they do.  It is a talented bunch and I am out of my element in terms of creativity there.  I am still such a pattern follower!