Time for recharging

Love this 5 day weekend.

First of all here are my two munchkins.  We had so much fun for Thanksgiving and got some great pictures.  ( Family group still on daughter's camera.)

              

But after all the fun and food, I have had some time to SEW ... Heaven!  

Here are photos of my coloration of the Magnolia Mystery by Meadow Mist Designs. 

Here are assembled blocks. Just 2 more colors and the odd ones. I postponed it as I thought I needed to trim my half square triangles.  But they were already done.  Bonus!

And here is the Crem de la crem, the sugar on top, the project we have been slowing completing:

I laid out the last of the 2 borders last night while watching Ice Age 4. (Yes, my hubby and I like animated movies that make us laugh.)   But I carefully pulled papers out of prepared applique, made the last 3 stems and placed all the leaves and such.  It is just pinned at the moment and will need some Roxanne's Glue Baste It...... The close up of one end is first

Followed by the "long shot".

Meadow mystery

Here is the piecework for the next step of the Meadow Mist Mystery.

This step required matching left and right triangles on the end of rectangles so there are 8 of each color.

En Provence catch up.

En Provence mystery....I am pleased to be caught up with all the clues for Bonnie Hunter's mystery. I was getting low on navy blues, and just had to run to the fabric store for some fat quarters. I told the game at the cutting table," Bonnie made me do it." ( wink wink)

Latest clue: only 32 half square triangles

Catching up on 4 patch: I didn't realize I was short about 14.

My blues replace the dark purple;  I have used as many Thimbleberries as I had of blue.

I disliked this fabric, not because of the color. It is amazing. But the quality was much thinner than almost all of my other Thimbleberries. 

En Provence part 3, skipping Part 2 for now

I never shared my background squares from Step 1 of  En Provence.

Here they are, all 102 of them. I haven't decided how big to make it yet, it is just short of half.

But I started on step 3 skipping the 2nd one, just because it was easier of the 2 steps to do.  I  have 47 completed.  I am getting a little nervous about finishing Christmas sewing, so I am switching projects.

The right picture shows groups of 10 pinned together, for ease of counting. and avoiding recounting countless time.  This is a great tip I learned from Bonnie Hunter, if memory serves me right.

En Provence

First project (that’s new);  lots of old ones in various stages, and 4/5 Christmas ones I don’t want to reveal due to being presents. 

So the new project is Bonnie Hunter’s mystery, En Provence. Love the photos of France and the awaiting entrance. But I am not a purple or lilac girl, not now, not ever.   And it is supposed to be scrappy and my house is country colors, so I pulled my Thimbleberries box out. Yes, lots of fabrics there, dark and medium blue, reds, greens, and golds. I can’t wait to use more of them. 

En Provence  link to Bonnie Hunter's instructions

And the neutrals I have 2 yard pieces of beige, one more tan and a light soft weave. I like Bonnie’s idea of “controlled” scrappy, so I thought I would go with it.  It is hard to see the colors.  

First step:   4 patches: 3 and a half inches.  For  87 inch quilt, 221 are needed. I am starting with half.  ( You can always make more.)  100 made.





The new post came out for the second clue.  I need to get started.