Cured of Making Mystery Quilts

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Plans for the last two weeks were

• Next Blockheads block. Well its been two weeks so two blocks.
• Quilt the stars on the Oh My Stars quilt and then add binding. Done, this was just the small size but that’s okay by me. I used Cozy Up 5inch squares and a border from that fabric. Stars from my stash. .
• Start in on making the edge blocks, half and quarter B blocks  for the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt, then start sewing rows. I did get this done and all the rows are together. I am really not in love! I used different colours, which did not quite work. However it was all those points and small blocks that did me in. The back of this top is very messy!! It’s not for me, I don’t mind a BOM but I am a person really who likes to know where they are going!  Thanks to Bonnie Hunter anyway, she is very talented with scrap quilts.
• My February WIP turned out to be the 3″ blocks I’d made during Sewcialites 2. I’d made 12 of them so I will turn them into cushions. (pillows) I have completed one.
• Finally I am making a temperature quilt with the free pattern from FQS. January is finished and the block made. A tree is for the last day as there are 31 days in January. I am using scraps from my stash, on the back of the quilt I’ll put a key to each fabric. The dark pink is 27-28 degrees C.  which is about 82 degrees F. However it has not been so much the temps as the humidity that has been the issue.  Very high.

Plans for the Coming Week(s)

• Make another cushion (pillow)
• Make next Blockheads block
• Maybe trim the edge of the mystery quilt and then sew a lap to keep the stitches firm. I am going to eventually add a border but I am not putting on the final pieced border. Had enough!
• Keep the February temperature block going.
• Whatever I feel like working on.

Sewing in Spite of the Heat

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Last Times Plans

• Finish making the Block B’s, and then the edge blocks, this is a quilt set on point (Bonnie Hunter mystery.) I have finished making the B Blocks and am turning to look at how the edge blocks are made for this on point quilt.
• Make Blockheads next block.  Done. 61/2 inch block.
• Make the BOM by Sherri at A Quilting Life. My fabric arrived – a Coriander fabric Peachy Keen.  Done. This is a 161/2 inch block.
• Quilt the borders of Oh My Stars
• Keep up the temperature quilt, into the third week of January now. Keeping up with it each day.
• Box and post away the four NICU quilts. Done. I found I had five quilts to send and they just fit snuggly into the box.

Plans for the Coming Week

• Next Blockheads block.
• Quilt the stars on the Oh My Stars quilt and then add binding.
• Start in on making the edge blocks, half and quarter B blocks  for the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt, then start sewing rows.

Slowly Moving Along with the Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt 23/24

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Last weeks plans

• Continue quilting the Oh My Stars quilt. Have finished quilting the interior of the quilt, still to do the borders.
• Complete sewing up the Block A’s then move on to the Block B’s if I get that far. I have completed the Block A’s and half the Block B’s. My work with the tri rec rulers was not that good but I guess the way to learn is to try. Would have been better if I had someone beside me, I did do You Tube videos. Could have been my ruler slipped a bit on me. I did the centre of this block in the wrong colour, but as it turns out it was a happy mistake as the Block A’s are rather dark when put into the layout.  Using Anne of Green Gables fabric.
• Make the next Blockhead block. Oh was this fiddly to do. It has nearly cured me of the 61/2 inch blocks, should have been going for the 121/2 but didn’t want a huge quilt. Using Edyta Sitar fabric.!

Plans for the Coming Week

• Finish making the Block B’s, and then the edge blocks, this is a quilt set on point (Bonnie Hunter mystery.)
• Make Blockheads next block.
• Make the BOM by Sherri at A Quilting Life. My fabric arrived – a Coriander fabric Peachy Green I think it is called.
• Quilt the borders of Oh My Stars
• Keep up the temperature quilt, into the third week of January now.
• Box and post away the four NICU quilts.

January 9th The Week Gone and the week to Arrive.

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Last weeks plans.

• Finish hand sewing the binding onto the Space NICU quilt.
• Start the temperature quilt. Recording highest temperature of the day – We use Celsius Started – will be fun to watch the temperatures over the months.
• .Make a start on whichever number is called for January, for WIPs. To progress on a project from last year or earlier. #1 was called which is a smallish Oh My Stars pattern from Pat Sloan using Cozy Up fabric. I have pinned it and started quilting. I want to use my circle rulers on this. It’s a challenge to hold the ruler and move the quilt!!
• Make the new Blockheads 5 block when it comes out later in the week. This was designed by Sherri from A Quilting Life. These 61/2 inch blocks are challenging!
• Work on Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt 23/24.All the clues are now out and it’s a matter of putting the units together to make blocks. I am working on Block A’s.

  

  

  
  

Plans for the next week or so.

• Continue quilting the Oh My Stars quilt.
• Complete sewing up the Block A’s then move on to the Block B’s if I get that far.
• Make the next Blockhead block.

January 2024.

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Plans were

• finish quilting the present NICU quilt and bind it. Done
• Pin and Quilt the Space NICU quilt and even maybe bind it.  Hand sewing the binding at present.
• Start on Week 3 Bonnie Hunter #3 clue when it comes out on Saturday – Friday for the USA!  I think we are up to clue 6, and I am up to date. I am doing 3/4 the size and may have to add a unit or two when the full pattern comes out.
• Make a list of things that need to be finished and put them into a month by month plan for 2024. I have made a list of the twelve projects I have been working on and want to progress one per month, I’ve also planned what ones I want to take on in 2024, with of course some additions as I go along.

Plans for the Coming Week

• Finish hand sewing the binding onto the Space NICU quilt.
• Start the temperature quilt. Recording highest temperature of the day – We use Celsius
• .Make a start on whichever number is called for January, for WIPs. To progress on a project from last year or earlier.
• Make the new Blockheads 5 block when it comes out later in the week.

NICU Quilts Mainly

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Plans Last Week

• Quilt the next NICU quilt and bind it.  Done.
• Keep up with the Bonnie Hunter sew along. Week 2 required a Tri Rec ruler, well I’ve never used one and don’t have one, have ordered one and will just have to catch up on this when it arrives perhaps in January.
• Sort through my tops and see what I might quilt next.  I sorted but didn’t decide yet.
• Order some batting. Ordered and its arrived today. Wow MSQC is amazing is all I am saying to get it to New Zealand so quickly.
• Perhaps make another NICU top, to use up some scraps. Made another from pieces of fabric and am quilting it.

As well the December BOM for A Quilting Life came out and I made the last block and put it together for the last NICU quilt of 2023. The hospital I make them for require them to be 29 1/2″  by 35″ I never quite get it on point but near enough.

For the Next Wee While

• finish quilting the present NICU quilt and bind it.
• Pin and Quilt the Space NICU quilt and even maybe bind it.
• Start on Week 3 Bonnie Hunter #3 clue when it comes out on Saturday – Friday for the USA!
• Make a list of things that need to be finished and put them into a month by month plan for 2024.

And Almost the End of November!

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Well it’s a lot of weeks since I last posted, way back in September. I did do some patchwork and quilting along the way but I stayed clear of my quilting blog because it felt like too much work! But here I am again taking stock of what I’ve down and what I have forgotten about.

I’ve completed a Spring Mystery Quilt I did with Laundry Basket quilts except I did it in Autumn colours.

I have also finished a NICU quilt and washed it. This was made from some Sewcialites blocks.I’ve also sewn up another one and am ready to quilt it.

I am up today with my Moda Blockheads blocks, except for the foundation paper piecing two, which I’ll leave out as I no longer have a printer. I don’t mind FPP but too lazy to go to a shop to get a print out.

I am up to date with the blocks I’ve been doing for the A Quilting Life block of the month and just waiting for the last one – December.

I have all my butterfly blocks finished and they are waiting to be sewn into a top.

My hearts log cabin quilt top  is finished, I thought I still had blocks to make, its all sewn up into a top!

I finished totally my Designer Mystery Quilt – just needs a wash.

I started just last week on Quiltville Bonnie Hunter’s Indigo Way Mystery sew along.  Except I am not doing it in her colours, but using dark and light green and a sort of purple/wine. It is left overs mostly from Anne of Green Gables fabric I have, although I did have to add to it. Oh well!

What’s Next.?

• Quilt the next NICU quilt and bind it.
• Keep up with the Bonnie Hunter sew along.
• Sort through my tops and see what I might quilt next.
• Order some batting.
• Perhaps make another NICU top, to use up some scraps.

September Bits and Pieces

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Fallen off the wagon in terms of posting what I have been up to but at present feeling like about every 3 to 4 weeks is about right for me. So this is not a weeks sewing and quilting but about 4 weeks as 22nd of August was the last time I posted.

So lets see how I got on with my list, I have even forgotten what might have been on it!!

Upcoming Plans for Next Few Weeks

• Work on quilting the Mystery BOM 2022/23. I have been working on this off and on and I can say most of the pins are out and a good bit of the quilting is done but not there yet. 
• Think about a border for the Sewcialites top. Done and folded away I could hardly remember where I put it!  
• Add to Winging it and the Halloween blocks.  With Winging It I have finished the blocks and clipped them into rows so they could come off my design wall. I added the castle to the Halloween blocks.
• Continue with any of the scrappy leaders and enders I am currently working on. I did work on these and have now finished all the scrappy heart log cabin blocks and am at present putting them in rows.
• I also started working on a scrappy Star Streams Quilt top from FQS. I’ll just use up fabric left over from other things.
• I want to see about Moda Blockheads 5 which I haven’t done before. I’ll see what is in my stash to do it if possible.  Would I – won’t I? I decided yes in the end and will use some Laundry basket fabric I had sitting there – I have made two blocks – 6 inch finished. I think they have a break over December and then continue in 2024 so I’ll make all those blocks too into one quilt top.
• Whatever comes to mind! I did bind a couple of blocks, a few years ago I had been making a QAYG but ended up not liking it but had some blocks made so turned them into mats. Two done and a couple to go.
• I also finished September block from A Quilting Life ’23.

Plans going into October

• Finish quilting the Mystery Block of the Month 22/23 from FQS.
• Keep going with the Blockheads blocks as they come out
• October A Quilting Life BOM
• See what will be the project I am working on for October. I like this as it’s a challenge to work on something for that month – not necessarily finish it. For example in September it was furthering my scrappy log cabin blocks.
• Whatever I feel like picking up to keep working on.