Thanks for the positive comments on the purple project. With my declining vision I look for "simple but effective" patterns and need fairly high contrast in my fabrics and designs. I'll be making the pointy pieces by drawing a diagonal on the corner of the rectangle and sewing through it, not going to stress myself cutting the points and trying to properly piece them.
I got the whites cut, I'm hoping I have one other large piece I held out for the borders. Otherwise I have plenty of assorted whites to do the borders with them. While I was at my Mom's I sorted out my purples and I seem to have plenty, have 22 of the 42 cut but it was time to pack up and leave. And I still have to sew the Not Quite Y2K border units I pinned at small group, then layout the border sections -- shouldn't be too hard since they are 80% unique squares but the way I work I just can't let go and let things happened, lol, I've already done so much of that in this project -- letting go is hard to do!
You might notice I am absent from the UFO group. I have way too many unquilted tops, and honestly I have no time-line on when either the Not Quite Y2K or the Purple quilt will be quilted, but I consider a completed top as a completed project -- just not quite a quilt. I need to find someone who likes to quilt as much as I like to piece, and together we could go places.
I did go to three thrift stores, and I bought no fabric for me. I have a box of flannel pieces I will be sending out and found a couple nice pieces to throw in there, they were each about 2+ yards for $1.99, it's amazing how much stuff I can put in one of those flat rate boxes... I did, however, buy a smaller rolling suitcase to take on these overnights to my mom's (she's aging and lives about 90 minutes away, I'm going out there once a week to help add some structure to her week and to do chores, be company, etc.) for $8.00 at St Vincents, it's a Laurel Burch cat design fabric
Also found a wonderful little 1970-ish mixmaster mixer (judging by the harvest gold color) complete with dough hooks and instruction book for $12 but it was 25% off. I don't have mixer and the little hand mixer I bought back in about 1982 for $14 has seen it's better days...