Yippee! My first mystery train ride! I'm just learning to piece and quilt and this is jjst what I need to learn and stay motivated.
Everyone is so friendly and helpful.
I brought hot monkey bread and apple cider. :)

OH GOOD GRIEF, ALL YOU GALS WITH YOUR DECODER RINGS ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. THE DATES ARE TOTALLY WRONG. TODAY IS CLUE #1, FEB. 21, #2 WILL BE FEB. 28 AND #3 WILL BE MAR. 7. HAVE NO IDEA HOW I MESSED THAT UP. I READ THESE DIRECTIONS OVER AND OVER BEFORE POSTING!!! Look but don't see, I guess.

Dotty -- I sent you a PM.

Well, Sunliten, I've reached a point where I am exhausted with working full time, taking care of sick cat, and cleaning snow. Did I mention snow? Snow, white stuff, high, deep, cold, sickening. I am 62, yup, 62, tell the world, and I still do my own shoveling, cleaning, etc. I have now reached a new time high throwing record. I didn't know I could throw snow over my head. It takes longer because you get ready, throw up like the dickens and wait to see if any slides back down before you do the next shovel full. I also now have muscles on my arms from lifting the roof rake, balancing the end that weighs much more than the rest onto the roof and pulling the snow down. I have also learned not to stand to close as the rake doesn't reach well, and what gets pulled down lands on me. I am only 5 feet tall, and with the snow already around me more than 4 feet high, it doesn't take much to bury me. I have had to dig a path around the end of my home and down the length, which is 78 feet in order to get to the roof that I need to rake off. I also have decided by the measurements, and the number of times I have had to dig this path and the one along the length of the carport and path from door to carport, that I have now accomplished the new record of shoveling a mile. And if I wanted to, and trust me, in this constant below zero weather I don't see that happening, I can now run the whole length of the paths naked and no one would see me, if I should decide that I don't get enough exercise with the shoveling. So see, winter has its plus......somewhere. But thanks for the worries, there are some out there that are not as lucky as I am.

Thanks Judy,I'm on board again too. Gotta go check out what I can find.

Judy was wondering what amount of the constant dark is required? The rest is light scraps if I understand correctly?

Never mind.. I reread and see where you said a 18 X 20 piece of the dark fabric.. silly me for not reading more carefully. :o

Hi everybody! So ready for another mystery! Really excited about this one because I will be working on a bunch of floral scraps that have been hanging in my closet for years. Yay! Out they come!

Thanks so much, Judy! What fun! Left breakfast tacos in the club car and I'm heading that way for some monkey bread.

thanks Judy, just made this train. was wondering around on the last train picking up scraps from the clue that were on the floor. Mary yelled, "hey Lynnie", and I came running. didn't want to miss it. Mary, i'm over here. save me a seat. Dotty, great to see you are here. We can talk about how you're going to make this smaller. !8", to some of you are scraps, scraps to me are smaller. I may have to cut into the stash or go shopping for an 18" sq piece,. Oh great, another reason to shop!!

I'm curious about this design. I had a dream about this last night. what beautiful quilts I dreamt of. out of this world and the colors were so intense. whish you could have all seen them.

AnngleAnn.... you gave me a giggle with your workout your getting. I know it really isn't funny with the amount of cold & snow your getting, but your description of running naked made me chuckle. I remember well my last year living in Seward, Alaska & we had 10 ft of snow. Guess who had to get up on roof & rake that down? That's right, MEEEEEE!!! Never again. Going to pull fabric for this MT soon as my eye gets a little better, hopefully next day or so. So everyone else that has caught this train, save me a spot in the club car.