November 2020 Quilt Update

November is here! Where did October go? This month allow yourself to experience ROAR WARS. Go beyond what you think you can do. No limitations. Get out of your comfort zone - in whatever manner that takes. You've got this!

This month gets us a little closer to the end of our theme for the year and I'm kinda ready for it. At any rate, if you are new to this blog --- here is how it all started.  The 20's are Roaring Again and are you joining in with our own group ROAR?  I posted all the details in a separate post and here is the Theme LINK to get the details if you want to join in.

Lights of Broadway Brazos Retreat

Each November we celebrate our anniversary retreat and this year marks our 7th weekend before Thanksgiving at Brazos.  The theme is "Lights of Broadway" and away we go --

Mairead's Quiet Book

I have a granddaughter turning one at the end of this year.  That means another quiet book to be put together.  For once, I have decided to get a head start on this and make some progress each month.  Will that hold out?  I don't know, but a start is a start.  Here is a little(?) log of how this book came together.  At the end of this post, I will give links to previous books as well.

New Year's Day ---  Yep, January 1st and I've cleaned the solids tub and located fabrics for the page backings AND cut them all.

1/16 -- While cleaning batting stacks and cutting for various projects to be tackled this year -- all the batting for the pages is now ready.  Not too bad for January.

Grassy Creek - Introduction - Bonnie Hunter - Mystery Quilt

Another fall is upon us and that means that Bonnie Hunter's Reader Appreciation Mystery is about to begin.  This year is it called Grassy Creek and here is the Introduction LINK so that you can read all about it and perhaps join in the fun.

The colors were released yesterday and since Mister needed some chain oil for his chainsaw, we made the annual trek for paint chips so that I could pick out fabrics.

Grassy Creek - Summary - Bonnie Hunter - Mystery Quilt

 

Bonnie Hunter's Winter Reader Appreciation Mystery is BACK!!!  I so love this time of year.  This makes my eighth year of following her and making the mystery quilts.  I've also picked up and completed many of her other ones that happened before that and along the way in other forms -- Plano classes and Quiltmaker Magazine.  It makes my heart happy to work on these each time I have the opportunity.  In fact, I am down to only ONE mystery of hers that I have not completed and that is Orca Bay.  Stay tuned as I'm tackling it in 2021.

I am gathering all of my posts and placing them here so you can link up and find what you want easily.  They will each open in a new page, leaving you access to this post.  You can also always find this post by clicking the tab at the top of the blog.  Please become a follower and you will always know when a new post is up.  Welcome to you and comments are ALWAYS appreciated.

If you wish to play along, PLEASE click on THIS LINK to get directly to the Quiltville site and all of the information.  I promise, you'll have a great time.

Post 1:  Introduction - Colors

Post 2:  Part 1 - Half-Square Triangles

Post 3:  Part 2 - Hour-Glass Units 

Post 4:  Part 3 - Triangle Units 

Post 5:  Part 4 - Giant Flying Geese 

Post 6:  Part 5 - Nine-Patches, Flying Geese, and Parts 

Post 7:  Part 6 - Snowball Bricks

Post 8:  Part 7 - First Part - The BIG REVEAL

Post 9:  Part 7 - Second Part - The Big Finish

October 2020 Quilt Update

Ahhhhhh  ---

I am so doing the happy dance.  It's OCTOBER!!!  This is my favorite month of the WHOLE year.  The house is decorated for autumn and my heart is happy.

Journey - Clue 9 and REVEAL

Journeys often take routes that are unplanned, such as our trip to Arkansas or have unexpected events which alter one's idea of the planned outcome.  It happens.  It's part of life.  This mystery has taken on a life of its own at several times and I've had to adjust and reroute just as our daily lives have done the same.  If only the road could always be straight.

Have you enjoyed this journey?  Has the path been straight for you?  I hope so and that you have walked away with a positive experience.  I know it is challenging to blindly follow someone else's vision.  Thank you for having enough confidence in me to do so.

So, without further ado, this post is our REVEAL.  Yep, we're finishing it up.  It's time as my friend, Bonnie Hunter, has colors coming out for her mystery today and I want everyone to be able to focus on that if they choose to.  Let's get going and I would suggest reading all the way to the end first --- now, how many zipped to the end FIRST when they knew it was the reveal??  Come on, be honest.