I am up to 4 rows. I had stopped making 4 patches (SICK of making units!), so I had to stop making blocks to go back and finish up. I keep seeing orange and green in my sleep! HA! here is a picture of the design wall. I am waiting to put the blocks together until I have all of them completed. I just stash dived for more variety on the 4 patches. I want to be able to mix them all up before making a top.

Oh! spending 4 days at the AQS quilt show here in Phoenix didn't help my progress! My feet are still complaning... I do know there is one block missing. It was on the ironing board and I was too lazy to take another picture!

Isn't it great when those circles start to emerge? I too saw the green, orange and blue in my sleep but considering the greyness of winter not a really bad thing. Great progress!

I made two pinwheels today/nite, and made them backwards!!! gosh darn. I PP them. they were the right size, and I sewed two complete 9.5 squares together. to see how it would look. ooookay for starters. but need improving.

SewNsew: I made every single one of my pinwheels backwards. You know what, I went with it. Didn't effect the pattern, thank goodness.

I don't think it makes any difference which way you do the pinwheels as long as they're all the same. It'll still look great.

Nellie, Sorry that you have been so very sick. Eight days in the hospital is a long time. Glad that you are home. You will recuperate must faster at home. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Blue Bell

hi blue bell , thank you it is nice to be home again

I had some pinwheels going both directions and once it's in the quilt, it's not noticeable at all. Glad that you're feeling, Nellie.

Nellie, I'm so sorry to hear what a rough time you've had, but glad that you are back home now. I really find it so unfair when someone else's situation/family have an impact on the other person in the room. What about your privacy? I nurse friend of mine had a situation recently where a very ill patient had MANY family members by his side and they were understandably very upset at his critical condition and were very verbal about it. That was upsetting the elderly patient in the next bed, but nothing was done about it until that patient's family complained. We really have to advocate for ourselves and family. I don't know what the best answer is, but the other patient's needs have to be considered as well. Anyway, glad you're on the road to recovery.

Emma, that is funny. and what is funnier, Is that you admitted it!!!! (I don't always admit my mistakes) in a quilt.I gift them knowing full well,that they aren't perfect, and never point out the mistakes. except once, with a grandson who got really up set because he had done a long and tedious math assignment completely wrong, and so had to spend two hrs redoing it. so, I took a PP star quilt off his bed, and showed him where I had to rip out and redo, and, piece, because I had cut lots of pieces too small.

SewNSo: What a marvelous lesson. Young ones need to know that the first time doesn't always work, but its important to keep trying. You can imagine, when I realized the pinwheels were all done and ALL going the wrong way I had several moments of dark thoughts. Remember at that stage I didn't know if it would make a difference to the pattern. Imagine my relief when I found out it was okay and oh by the way I was making the king size.

I'm getting a late start but finally got step 1 done tonight! I've done several of Bonnie' s holiday mysteries and it seemed really weird not to be sewing along. I was out of town for 3 weeks over Christmas because my daughter and husband had a baby boy - our first grandchild! I did have fabric pulled however, and for the first time used my colors instead of Bonnie' s. I'm using mostly darker/ civil war type colors instead of brights and am substituting cheddar for yellow and red orange for the oranges. This one will be all from stash except for four quarter yard strips of cheddar I bought for more variety.
All of the photos have been lovely. Anybody else just getting started?

hello everyone, feeling better but not out of the woods yet, I,m seening a lung specialist and this doctor has me on oxygen with nurse,s coming by to take my sign,s of blood presser, check on my heart and walking with me to see how much oxygen I lose when I start walking just to get around ,my nurse,s are so in love with my quilts,now there telling me what hobby there going to start collecting there supplies , I maded 3 nurse,s into , it sure is good to be home and one nurse said I can start sewing but only slowly and rest in between, that,s ok by me as long as I csn sew, I,ve been seeing how nice some are coming out very beautiful. keep on sewing

sewplease, congratulations on the grandson. A great reason to miss the mystery quilt!! I have all my steps done but haven't been able to put it together. Hope to have time soon.

Nellie, sorry you've had so much trouble. Quilting will be good! Continue recovering.

Sewplease: I can hardly wait to see what your colors look like. I went with Bonnie's, but all the more reason why other choices are so interesting. Congrats on the little one. Its such a joy to have young ones in the family. I'm still waiting impatiently for mine to appear. Nellie: Sorry to hear your still under the weather, just take it very slow. No sense in rushing. At least your in a place where the sun is shining, which I always feel helps the healing.

Nellie,

Thinking of you and wishing you well. Sending lots of love and big hugs.

Blue Bell

well I got as far as pulling fabrics and then got bogged down with UFOs ,I have so many and my dd said to me via the phone(she lives in Fl. ) Mom PLEASE finish what you have started,as I am 81 it made sense lol. so ufos it was,now have 9 yes 9 quilts awaiting bindings,but many more to come I hope!!!!lol

Jolo: Last year I finished enough UFO's to give each of my children a couple of quilts. That kind of takes the pressure off a little since I really want to leave some FINISHED quilts behind. Still want to finish more but I'm having so much fun with quilt a longs that the number of WIP's is increasing at an alarming rate. Still hope to achieve some finishes before the year is out. I don't know if you are aware of the thread, I think its called 2014 UFO or something close, its for the purpose of encouraging each other to finish our UFO's.

Sewplease:Looking forward to seeing it done in your colors, I love the civil war fabrics.

all the quilts are looking GREAT, thank you for sharing the progress.

Jolo and EmmaS: We're supposed to finish all our UFOs before our demise? Between knitting and quilting I'm in real trouble!

Rfun: No, its clear you'll just have to live forever. Same with me for using up my stash.

thank you for the warm hugs blue bell and cindy ,just seeing your progress and pictures puts me in a sewing mood ,and my nurse sure also enjoys seeing your progress too ,she tell me that she can,t wait to retire so she can start her hobby with quilting she so enjoys looking at quilts on quilting board .I have 3 nurse,s coming on different days of week and all 3 have fallen in love with quilting another nurse want me to teach her and her sister how to quilt can you believe it, as for me i.m sewing but very slow but I,m doing it ,well you ladies take care and be safe

No I wont finish all of them. My dd said mom remember you are 81 please dont start any more new things for some one else to try to finish. lol Yes I also knit crochet and silk ribbon embroidery as well as old fashioned embroridery with thread.

Starting new projects if what keeps us young. I must be about thirteen.

Happy Birthday, Nellie. Hope you are having a feeling good day.

Blue Bell

I'll have to remember that one. LOL

thank so much Blue Bell ,received such beautiful gifts , flowers dinner with family .drawing pictures from grand children ,more flowers from my nurse,s and a wedding ring band with my birth stone and diamonds all around my birth steone from my dear husband of 46 years togather ,he,s so happy to have me back home ,he tells me this all the the now. im so blessed

So happy for you. Sounds like a very special day.

I'm sewing away. making different clues. I'm PP. I do what ever I feel like. the last time I sat down, and worked I worked on chevrons. I've put 3 or 4 complete blocks together to see, if the seams were matching up, and they were, and the size was good. 9.5 trimmed. correct? I like the way some of you are working on your rows. did you make all your clues first? I lost my two sewn together blocks, that had the backwards pinwheels in them. don't know where I put them, to make sure I could find them next time. ha. This time i hung my completed blocks right on the design board. I had put it up for a while, to sash my FWQ. and got it back from the quilters. going to do the binding tomorrow. I think.

Getting ready to sandwich my CS. This will not become a UFO!

You go girl!!!

Emma, I'm looking forward to seeing your progress -

I have been working on my first one (I am making 2 of the smaller size CS) this week and so far have all the blocks sewn together and the first 3 rows pieced together man what a booger it has been so far it is far from perfect but once quilted and washed no one will be the wiser. Had put them both aside after I finished clue 5 on both and just started working on them this week again. They are beautiful just a lot of pieces and had to take a break to do something else :)

Just put my last row on the center tonight. Now to work on borders!

Looks good Beth !!!!! I got my center put together today as well. I got the 1st 2 borders and 2 of the sides of the 3rd border will finish up tomorrow and see if I can post a picture.

Looks good, Soccortxi

Beth/Christine: Major Milestone! Are you going to do her border or something else? I used her border but abutted the blocks to make diamonds rather than the directional arrows.

Emma, I am auditioning borders now. I have another quilt that needs borders (that I have decided on :hard part done! lol) and a UFO that has all the blocks completed (so i can piece those together while I decide on the CS border). I dont' have all the orange 'peaky' units made...and frankly, I think I am DONE. I would rather use what I have and make it mine, than make more! I had seen them used in a zigzag pattern instead of a flying geese pattern. I am trying both on the design wall. Could be they will end up on the BACK with a totally diff border. I am feeling so ... outlaw-ish today!

I think I just had a great idea! I learned how to import pictures into EQ7 in a class a couple weeks ago. I can import the pictures and audition borders w/o having to move stuff around on the design wall...OR stash dive! I think my cup of coffee is working! Ha!

soccertxi - I ended up doing her borders as I could not think what else to do with those triangles I had made. But I did end up making the 3rd border 3" finished as I did not want a thin border like she had made plus by making it 3 1/2" unfinished I used up a piece of fabric that has been aging for many years in my stash :o

Okay her is my 1st CS completed top. I a little story how the colors ended up as they are I made the triangles wrong the red should have been in the middle and blue on the outer edges so that ended up changing the design by switching the color order I had originally planned on doing.
Supposed to be Ended up being
Red Blue
Yellow Yellow
Green Green
Blue Red

[ATTACH=CONFIG]465299[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]465300[/ATTACH] One down one more to go !