Mystery Quilt Along & Ribbons

 So I've been keeping up pretty well with this year's Mystery Quilt. 

Quiltville Mystery Quilt Along Here's the link if you wan the pattern. It's available for free until February. 

I switched up my colors of course. 

And it's coming together! I just have the border to make now!

This year it's kind of not my favorite, yet anyways. 

In past years I've liked it a lot more. Something about those X in the middle of the alternating block, not my fav. But when it's all done It will be fine I'm sure.  

I've also been working on this project for my Sister. She had a basket full of ribbons she earned at horse shows over the years. She saw on social media that it could be made into a wall hanging. Well it sounds easy enough......

It is a project, that's for sure. But it's coming along. Ribbons are different to work with, they just ravel away if you breathe on them!

But I think I'll have them stitched into submission eventually! I'm using monofilament thread, so that's different too. And I'll have to figure out a project for all the rosettes too I think! 

Busy! Busy! Busy!

 This guy has been spending quite a bit of time here.

For some reason he thinks it's fun to take his shirt off. 

I'm way behind on the mystery quilt along too!

But I've got the center blocks almost assembled.

DD has been making some changes-they had to move out of their rental house, soooo, they've moved here....

Here she is before the move......

The kitchen is kind of small, but adequate. Remember it's had to find a place to rent that allows dogs, so we bought the mobile home and it'll just be the lot rent to be paid. 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, so it'll do just fine. 

This guy isn't really going to care one way or the other!

Mystery Quilt Along Progress

The Bonnie K Hunter Mystery Quilt Along is in full swing. This years the pattern is called Indigo Way. Here's the Link.    So I finished step 2 finally! 

And I got going on step 3

And TA-DA clue 4 is complete.

SO I'm ready for the next clue tomorrow!

So I also got the cookies done for Sunday Christmas Eve day at our house. The kids and grands are supposed to come over for potluck! YAY! 

This is my go-to cookie cook book. It's from 1974, the Methodist Ladies group made it for a fund raiser. 

Anyway, 

Chocolate chip, snickerdoodles, peanut butter and cow pie cookies are all done!

Bagged up and ready for Sunday!

Rhododendron Trail Mystery Quilt DONE!

So, remember I posted that I was working on the Bonnie K Hunter Mystery Quilt this year. It's called  rhododendron trail.
 

Well big news! I'm done with it!

Here it is after I got the top together, 

Look at all of those flying geese blocks!!

I always forget how much I like the look of blocks set on pint, but don't really like to DO it!

I love the colors I've go going on here.

I did make a bit of a learning mistake. I made the tiny corner blocks on the sashing  the dark blue color and it blends right into the green and disappears. Such a waste of time to put them in when they disappear!

Oh well, I quilted it with my walking foot on the baby Lock Lyric. Just followed the diagonal lines. It came out great!  I used this cute backing, after DD gave me guilt. I was going to use a bright floral print, and she said it would be aweful....so I caved and went shopping and got this cute fabric from Home Ec in Iowa City. 

It has tiny houses with reindeer and snowmen on it. So cute!

Here I'm quilting away-this is a pretty big quilt, something like 100" x 84".

It took some serious muscling it around, but I got it done! I waited a few days for a day when it wasn't quite so cold outside to get an outdoor picture of the whole thing.  

Here it is on the muddy, snowy hillside.

You can see the true colors so much better, and you can also see that I used more than one neutral white color.

Oh well, it is what it is. 

All in all it was a good quilt, nice big blocks. The Mystery quilt is available for free until Sunday at the Quiltville Blog. After Sunday, you'll have to buy it.

Now to get it into the washer to get the mud off.

Crinkly goodness after washing, here we come!

Just for comparison, here's Bonnie K Hunter's original Rhododendron Trail completed, and here's mine. Both are really great looking quilts!

It's January

I was so happy when both of our kids decided to tag along to Costco and also Aldi.

We all needed some stuff to get stocked up for the new year! We got pretty big snow Friday.

I had to work Friday night, so I went ahead and snow blowed the driveway even though it was still snowing because I figured I wouldn't be able to get back in the driveway in the morning if I didn't. 

I even made a little path to the hydrant next door. I guess firefighters like that.

Me and my trusty snow blower!

Making more progress on the Mystery quilt too. 

I had decided to use the darker green for the last color in the mystery, but then I got this lighter green.....

I dunno, I can't decide.

The last clue came out Friday so I think I'll decide when I get to looking at it a little better.