Amen. Enjoy the journey. It is for fun, not a job, nine to five. Love the challenge, but care more about making dh happy. Baked him cookies yesterday Pumpkin Snickerdooles.

Help. My center medallion is 23 inches square. The downloads I have are wrong and cannot access original patterns that print page 93 in templates or paper piecing. Back to zero progress. Yes, I do have the book. Maybe it means I cannot do it. Help.

And not printing the right page. Page 93 does not print out at all. I first printed out all the templates and paper piecing, but apparently the size is wrong and nothing I can do to get block 83 to print out.

Block 83 is on page #103. You have to print the page # - not the block #.

Page 93 is Block 73 Milkmaid's Star.

This is from the Patchwork PDF download, from her site. So it should be the same as yours!

Block 93 is on page 229. I copied my 'pages' from site listed in the book, and pages go from 1-155. Carrie forward the paper piecing, but it does the same thing, pp 1-155. I guess I could continue on the larger size, and it should all go together...which may be the only way to continue.

QNS you can use your center piece. Just don't use the 3" Flying Geese Border. Make a new solid or pieced border adjusted to the size that the finished center block+flying geese should equal. I didn't do flying geese, used print fabric. Don't give up!!

Jeanie your center looks great!! (no notifications again so missed it until today!)

QNS, I agree with Jan that you can just use the center you have. Did you print everything out already or just pieces for the center block? If just the center papers, then doing like Jan said by adding the difference with a solid border to get it to the size after flying geese is a great idea! If you have everything printed you could keep it all to the same size and maybe just not do the outer border? It just depends on how big you want your finished quilt...

Update on me...MRI will finally be next week (had to wait on insurance approval then for available appt). My shoulder is now giving me issues as well. My chiro thinks it is because I have been overcompensating for so long for my thumb/wrist that is what is causing it. I hope so! I basically do what has to be done around the house. Haven't been sewing since I finished up my last RR border a few weeks back. I can't wait to be able to work on something without pain!

So sorry Carrie, that you are in pain. My hips (right one) is very sore in the muscles. Its hard to stand and walk with the pain..
Thanks, Jan and Carrie for the good advice. I will probably continue, since I ran all the templates and paper piecing in the beginning, and all should match the center,making it whatever size it will be. Not ding that work over, so be it.

Oooh, what lovely blocks you ladies have. Love your 'pinky' color palette, Midwestmom.

One step at a time, one hour at a time, this too shall pass. I slept well last night, and made dh breakfast this morning for the first time in a long time. Yes, I like the direction I am going on the homestead quilt...yes, I am slow in making progress, but I am going forward. And petting my fabric when I am not sewing.

I have laid our my flying geese around the center medallion, going with a Sunshine and Shadow effect around the center. I think I like that. So far, so good. Yes, I am following Bonnie Hunter and saving her clues, but I am not making at this time. Pictures later, maybe.

I am so sorry I have been such a bad "leader" of this quilt along. :( It is hard to keep up when I am not able to sew the blocks too! Plus I go in spurts where I don't get any notifications from the quilting board so I kind of forget to check in...

Dec 7th-13th #99 & #9
Dec 14th-20th #102 & #18
Dec 21st-27th #69 & #62
Dec 28th-Jan 3rd #103 & #42

Jan 4th-10th #1 & #25
Jan 11th-17th #17 & #84
Jan 18th-24th #109 & #3
Jan 25th-31st #72 & #34

Happy New Years to everyone still hanging around!!

Anyone still working on these blocks each week? I have my center done and fabrics cut for the surrounding border and flying geese. One day I'll be able to do some small cutting/paper piecing again!! I have more testing this week on my hand...

Ok everyone! I hope you are all still working on this project! This is an updated picture of my efforts so far in this round. A few of the Grassy Creek blocks are on the bottom also. I am caught up as of last week.

Wonderful work. I am looking forward to when everyone starts piecing their quilt blocks together. I just have to see this quilt everyone is creating.

Jeanie! Way to go!! I am starting PT this week on my thumb and hope to be PPing again soon! I have been getting some sewing in but no small stuff.

This thing is really getting big, it would not fit on my display wall. I am still enjoying doing my 2 blocks a week. Last night I printed out the templates for March blocks. We are back to 8" blocks, the last round was 6".

JeanieG, That's totally amazing. It really does look big. Can't wait to see the top finished

I'd like to try someday. I don't know anything about paper piecing. And I doubt I have enough variety of fabric to do something with so many colors and patterns.

Guess I need to purchase the book so that I have the patterns and instructions on how to put it together.. Unless there's a resource online showing all of that.

Jeanie!! Wow, this is great!!! In reply to your other post, I too wish there were more who were doing this...including me! I still am not able to do the paper piecing needed for these blocks. I have done a few simple blocks, but the fine cutting needed to trim for these blocks is too much yet.

I just watched a YouTube video about paper piecing. I think I understand all about how to put something together now. Now I will take it to the practical application, and find something to piece together.

Thanks for this thread. It has me wanting to try a new way of putting a block together.

This is the tutorial I watched when learning to Paper Piece. It is NOT my favorite type of quilting technique!

https://www.connectingthreads.com/tu...ow-to-video/81

Hello everyone, I am back! Finally got logged on after several months of trying....and trying....and trying. Not been active in the sewing room, guilty of reading too much. Love the way the center is going, and have started the outer row for the center. Physicals therapy has me moving better and right hip has quit hurting. Cannot believe how much better I feel. Spring is here, but long johns are still necessary every other day. Sewing is better option than spring cleaning!

Jeanie, This is gorgeous! I just bought the book. Thanks for the inspiration.

JeanieG, I failed to notice the whole quilt you have finished and it is a real gem! Guess most of us old gals have slowed down and not keeping up but I do admire what you have done. I have not finished a quilt in the last four or five years, due to many things along with age...the desire to 'do', husband's anti-comments, etc., so not finishing any thing. Need to finish about 20 UFOs and use up a big stash of fabric. Maybe this winter.

I understand JeanieG. That will be a big quilt, but one can stop where they want to for their own sizing on the quilt.

Yes, I am a Bonnie Hunter fan too. I admire her and all she does and makes up those Mystery Quilts every year. Yes, I am copying down her directions as she releases them, but not planning on making this year's as I have not finished last year's Mystery Quilt. I may order the Quiltmaker magazine that she writes for, just to see what she is featuring each month of the four month long subscription. Scraps is not really my thing, the bigger the pieces are, the less sewing to do to complete the quilt!

Praying for more winter days when I can see and my head is not hurting so bad that I can get into my Quilt Room and sew and sew and sew. That would be great. Happy Thanksgiving to all, happy this year that we will have two, one for his cousins an another with his brother. Fun, fun, and fun.

Our loved ex-neighbors from Texas adopted daughter and husband are expecting their first baby (boy) in March. More fun thinking about a baby quilt! My first quilt to her was on her sixth birthday and she still has it. A single bed size divided into thirds, the upper was the sky, middle was a 'pink' corral with six horses in it, with a pink hat and boots with her name on it, and the lower third was beside the still waters and grass. The sky was window panels that God looked out of to bless her. Memories that brings back.

Glad you are still plugging along QNS! I am sorry you are having problems with your head! Is it your eyes, or are you having headaches? Hope you can find out the cause and get it remedied. I have absolutely no patience with illness, I want to be well NOW!!!

I have another quilt I am ready to sandwich, and have not worked on the Medallian quilt in a few weeks.

We are going on a three day RV trip with our RV Group starting tomorrow, then heading to Phoenix to visit with my son and granddaughter for a week.

We found out our friends that live in Idaho are coming for two weeks the Sunday after we get back from Phoenix (right before Thanksgiving). We could not make the trip to visit them the last two years, so we are so excited that they are flying here for a visit! Can't wait for them to visit!!! They are the type of friends that it seems like you just saw them last week once we get together!!!

Have a great Thanksgiving!!!

That all sounds like so much fun! Enjoy your camping trip and guests for Thanksgiving. My blood grandmother was Rose Mae Harper ( one of fourteen) had a sister (Myrtle) who rode the train into Idaho in 1900 and married Charles Adamson. They were blessed with many children, and their children, so there are more than 100 in Idaho that are related to me. Shirley Johnson lives in Lewiston and hosted a get-together for great granddaughters of Clarissa America Harper in the summer of 2004, so I got to meet a few. One from Clarksville, WA across the Colombia River from Lewiston, Idaho. That is a fun trip.

My head cannot stand 'noise' and I suffer from allergies so much, my Dr. has me taking a Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion every night before bedtime. Eyes are both affected by Optic nerve problems, left is blind and the right one sees 90% on good days. I have no depth perception and get dizzy when I try to drive on Missouri Highways. So dh drives, but he has problems seeing also, so we go day by day on independent living. Getting old isn't always roses, but we are blessed to still be able live independently at our age.

On the 13th of October, I ran after a little orphan tom cat in the hallway, he put on his brakes at my bedroom door but I hit the door frame and fell into my bedroom, breaking my left hip. After going to Des Monies, Iowa, Mercy downtown for surgery, and coming back to hometown for rehab and finally back home on the 11th of November, walking with a walker or in a wheel chair, Thanksgiving was a blessing to be home even if I was unable to secure a turkey and the feast I wished we had.

Yesterday, was back to see my doctor and do some shopping for the next month...until December 22nd when I can go shopping again for groceries. Neither of us drive now, so I go once a month with a kind friend. And load her car up with 'needs' for the month. I wish I might get into the quilting room again, but handicapped with the left hip injuries and rehab. Not what we had scheduled for this fall. One day at a time. Each week I seem to improve a little bit more. But progress is very slow. The Tom Cat will be neutered at the end of the year. and no more chasing him out of the house. LOL.

QNS - so sorry to hear of your hip injury! I hope you will recover quickly! However at our age that probably is wishful thinking!

I only have the final border on last year's Bonnie Hunter Mystery to finish quilting and it will be done except for the binding. I have never been this late finishing one of her quilts. I guess my 80 year age is catching up with me. I did start this year' Mystery and just finished Clue 1. I am only doing half the quilt size, as after doing 12 years of her full size Mysteries, I do not need any more large quilts.

I only have two more blocks to complete the next to final row on my Medallion quilt. I decided I am finished when I get them done! It has been hard to keep going with this quilt, as no one else is doing it. That took a lot of joy out of it for me!

Yes, thank you for the thinking of healing fast, JeanieG. And I know it is more of a challenge when more are doing the quilt patterns with you. I have a third of the The Bible pattern book done and put aside. I also note the lack of interest of any group working together, except the new Bonnie Hunter Mystery. I am following her again, but not into making it right now. Just saving the pattern for later! I miss our group we had when we first started the Farmer's Wife quilts. Time moves onward, whether we are ready or not. Merry Christmas to all and may your journey be filled with joy and happiness of finishing many more quilts.