Well, I didnt get any sewing today (had to take my DD to go see Breaking Dawn for her report card reward), but plan to get busy tomorrow. I also bought one of those rolling carts for scrapbooking, but am going to use that for my scraps. Will look much nicer when I need to get stuff... and not drop some on my head lol!

I know what you guys mean about sewing alone. My mother lives with me now and she sews with me when she's not too tired from working, but it sure would be nice to have sewing buddies come over to sew together. I am so glad I found this site... Don't know if I would have stuck with the quilting if I didn't have friends with the same interests.

Was working hard on my triangles when the "Quilt Police" show up!


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Quilt Police or Quilt helper???

I'm still finishing up Roll Cotton Boll Roll from last year, but I think I will print all the instructions for this one and work on it when I get a few more UFO's under my belt. I just can't take on another project right now. Her quilts are huge, so if you don't want to make a queen size, cut everything in half. That's what I did with RCBR from last year and it is going to be a generous lap sized quilt.

I've started this mystery - so excited because it will be my 2nd Bonnie Hunter quilt and first mystery!!!

I'm using her colors and started cutting and sewing yesterday. I don't have alot of scraps so I'm cutting mine from yardage and fat quarters. I didn't have many blacks so I bought a bunch of yardage from Thousandsofbolts.com and then hit up JoAnns on Saturday to pick up a couple more. I love to have lots of variety in scrap quilts. I had made Roll Roll Cotton Boll and that needed like 800 HSTs of red and neutral so I've got a system set up to make sure I get the most variety.

So what I do is cut a black and neutral strip together then separate the QSTs. Then once I've cut several different strips, I put each in little piles. Then I take one of the neutral piles of triangles (all one fabric) and then sew a triangle to each of the different black fabric triangles I've cut. So if I have 3 different neutrals and black strips cut - then I have 3x3x3 = 9 different QSTs sewn together. Then I make a ton of those and then iron. Then when I'm ready to sew them into the hourglass units, I can grab almost any two and not have to repeat fabrics.

Hope that helps somebody :) Okay at last count I've got like 30 hour glass units made, lots of triangles cut, and lots of strips cut. I'll post pictures of some of my stuff in the picture thread tomorrow. Seeing everyone's posts and pictures keeps me motivated so I hope I inspire someone else too.

Yeah she said this one is a bit smalled than she usually does.


Luna kitty is one of 5 I do battle with, plus 2 dogs but those want to be up under my chair. I keep a squirt bottle close by. They can be on my cutting table when I'm not using it as it is by the window. They use it as a launchpad to get to the upper reaches of their kitty condo. They are getting better, now I just pick up the bottle and they jump for cover. They only get the squirt if they don't keep moving off

I want to follow this quilt and may participate. 224 1/4 triangles is quite a start for this.

TaDa! Completed 100 QST last night!