50 YEARS OF STASH??!!! oh geez, we need a drooling smiley!!

I think your MIL would be very pleased with the pattern you've chose for one of those 23 quilts. Love your selections!!!!

We should all take pictures of our color stacks when we make quilts. What a way to step back and see how they look. For instance, Sheri, look at your stack of brown. See the one that is really more blue? Maybe you'll want to use that as one of you teals. And in the pink stack....the one with the black background is really contrasting with the pinks. The rest look awesome and would be great together. What a wonderful windfall to get all those fabrics. Have fun playing!

I'm subscribed to this thread and printed Bonnie's directions, but I'm going to lurk (and probably comment occasioanlly) for now. I really have to make 2 other quilts first. Plus some other stuff. I do love quilt alongs though.

Awesome stash, Sheri. My problem (other than not being at home right now) is that half of my stash is in Washington and half is in Arizona. I will be making this quilt in Arizona, and I can guarantee you, that most of the fabrics I would like to use will be the ones waiting for me in Washington. Seems to be the way it always is, I never have the right fabrics in the right place. Oh well, a shopping trip next week, I bet.

I've saved the instructions - need to start soon, have all my fab ready...but MUST finish the quilting project I've got set up first ooooooooo I hate to be behind :(

Foxflower, Thank you and you're right about the pink/black. The one you call blue is actually showing the wrong side. It's more brown/black. Not an attractive fabric. But who will know in a 1 inch piece?? HA HA

This is the first I've cut into MIL's stash. It makes me really nervous. But I've got a lot to finish, and non of us (MIL) are getting any younger.....

I couldn't wait until next week though and I've gone ahead and cut 1-1/2 inch strips of the browns and most the creams. Then I made 4 QTS? I found, what I thought was 1/4 inch seam is more, so, two of my squares are 1/4 small.... I sewed the next ones a "scant" 1/4 inch and viola??? perfect... Good thing too. I've cut a lot of MIL's browns into the 1-1/2" strips....

I also think I need to find some FASTER to make quilts for some of these 23 quilts.... I'll never finish them if I take weeks. Lap size is good. This mystery quilt will be one of the larger ones I make for all her grandchildren.

The two pics I posted are just the pink/teal/brown/cream part of the stash I'm working with. I have 6 - four foot cupboards of material from her. although some of it is large pieces to use for boarders and backings.

Thank you all, and have a GREAT Thanksgiving. We're going North =)

Ahh, I see. Well, if you hate the front, use the back! :D 23 quilts is definitely quite a few. Even at one a month that would be 2 years in the making. Good thing there are lots of beautiful and simple patterns. Happy Thanksgiving all!

Orca Bay quilt
 

I'm in, but haven't started yet. I have Triangulations and plan to look into using that.
Charlotte in Arizona

A fast Lap quilt pattern that I use a lot is the Yellow Brick Road. 6 fat quarters and a yard of boarder fabric--DONE!! I'm also working on a Disappearing 9 Patch that was really easy too.

I used Triangulations - it works great! I did use some strips also, and did them with the Companion Angle Ruler. Be sure to check how you sew the ones with the Companion Angle Ruler......I sewed on the light color side as Bonnie said to do......wrong!!!! I had to unsew a bunch! The light color fabric was on the right when using Triangulations - the light was on the left with the Companion Angle - sewing both on the light side of the fabric. Hope that makes sense!

I've been sewing, cutting, and more sewing. Boy I'm slow!!

I don't have my Thanksgiving Quilt either!!

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DITTO!! I love Snoopy and that fabric is adorable!!

Sadiemae: Congrats on finishing all those QST!!!!!

That us such cute Peanuts fabric. Ooooh do finish it!!! And thanks For the YellowBrickRoad tip. I'll be looking that one up!

Thanks ya'll. The fabric was part of a vest I had made a few years back. It came out back in 2002 and is very rare now. I know someone who has a piece of it on Facebook and wants $75 a yard!!!! They are crazy!! I'm working on a Snoopy/Peanuts quilt/wallhanging for each month/season/holiday for one wall. I've been collecting Snoopy's since I was 10years old, I'll be 50 in January. I've got 35 stuffed ones of every size, plus musicboxes, figurines, you name it, I've got. My Goddaughter is a Snoopy fan too. She just got her first apartment and for Christmas I will be giving her a big tote containing every Hallmark Snoopy ornament that has been made since she was born.

Sadiemae, WOOHOO!

Cindi, love that quilt and fabric.

Everybody who celebrates, Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone, I am islandwiz1 from Rhode Island and I have decided to do this mysyery quilt. I hope I will be able to keep up. I think my main color will be purple then pink blue and yellow for accent. How does that sound? If I understand this right I will have my hourglass blocks in blues and pinks.
Carolyn

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!! Have been in the kitchen since last night. Cherry Cheesecake, Cheesecake Brownies, home canned greenbeans & ham, mashed 'taters, Pomagranite, mushroom & fennel stuffing, Roast chicken & gravy (there's only 2 of us) DONE!! Just a couple minutes left on the sweet 'tater custard pie and it's TIME TO EAT!!

Christmas light show in the next town over starting at 530!!

Welcome to the crew Carolyn. We are having lots of fun doing this together!

Welcome, Carolyn. I'm sure you'll enjoy this group.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

still sewing sewing sewing! Don't know how many of these I have done. DH is home tomorrow going to get him to press them for me. Hey, I'm making a quilt for his buddy so he can iron the fabric and mine too!!

Bonnie is looking for the pictures for the next post or she's resewing them according to her Facebook post. She miss placed them. UTOH!!!

Clue #2 is up!

I ahve about 80 of the qst done....I can't work on step 2 as I am visiting in tn and don't have my blues with me.

2 is going to be easy compared to 1!! I'm still working on these dang little squares!!

Oh my! I've never done a scrappy, and that string piecing is really going to put me out of my comfort zone, lol, but I am up for the challenge...I hope.

And for those of you who haven't found the second clue, here is the link to Bonnie's blog:
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2011/...ay-part-2.html

Glad to see that clue 2 is easier than the first one, hopefully when I start next week I won't be too behind.

OK!! I finished part one on Wednesday and of course had to take Thanksgiving off to do lots of cooking, but after shopping last night and the kids making me get up 3 hours after having fallen asleep, I think I am going to just relax today lol. I will take pictures of part one that is in a shoebox size tote later today to post on the picture thread. I hope I can do the strings without too much stressing... my mom says I'm just too OCD on trying to match everything lol. I'm hoping that this mystery quilt will help me treat this issue to some point. Only time will tell though I guess hee hee

Put the pieces you are going to use for the strings in a bag and pull two out and sew them together. Then pull another out without look at it and sew it together. You'll be amazed at how well this works when you usually stress over getting a certain piece next to a certain piece. Just give yourself permission to add whatever comes out of the bag no matter what it is. I did this with Christmas placemat that I made and it works great. Takes all the pressure off of trying to match things up.

Brooke, I have the same issue, lol.
Judy, thanks for the advice, I will try to try that :D

Hubby is slacking on the ironing dept!! He needs to get on those little squares so I know how many I still have to make!! I've got all my paper squares cut for Clue #2. I cut them 4 inches and will trim them down to the 3.5 when they are done. I've decided I'm going to do 10 at a time and work on another project inbetween in order to save my sanity. Repitition makes me crazy!! (crazier!)

I agree with Judy too, grab and go!

Sounds like fun.

I have about 20 done on part one. Just bought the ruler at Joanne's last night for 50% off. Yeah only $3.49 so I bo ught some more fabric. Do all the squares have 4 different QST or 2 and 2 . I cut out some strips last night at 1 1/2 but when I sewed them they came out 2 1/ 4 . I checked my 1/4 inch and it is fine so what do I do now? Help Help Help!