Oh My Gosh is right!! This is spectacular!

Boston really started a trend with those 'square in a square' quilts! Love all the blues, Nan.

Teen, love the fabrics you have put together for your quilt. Wondering what the design will be.

I got a lot done today but no sewing happened. :( Hubby split firewood out in the woods, and we loaded it up, hauled it and stacked it on the porch... just ahead of the snow we are supposed to be getting tonight. Last time it snowed here the snow was heavy and pulled down power lines. Gotta have that firewood if we lose power.

I also got our taxes done! No, not 2017, but 2016. I know... I'm a really bad procrastinator. :hunf:

Now I'm free to get back to trimming mystery quilt blocks, in prep for another small clue tomorrow.

I have my curtain panels cut. I pinned one and hung it in the window just to get an idea of how it will look. Plus it is so nice to see this fabric somewhere other than on my loom - I started weaving in June! LOL
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Tomorrow I am hoping to finish them while baking a cake for a New Years Eve family gathering. Plus we might be getting another BH mystery clue.

That curtain looks beautiful on the window. Gorgeous with the sun coming through the weave.

Your weaving is exemplary, truly. These panels are gorgeous..

Sewbiz......I don"t have a pattern or picture to share with you...I was inspired by a quilt on the web and will be piecing it somewhat based on picture but will, also, be appliquing once pieced......
I would not be able to sleep at night if I didn't file my taxes on time. Good for you going into the new year up to date...

Jan - that particular maze quilt was a total pain. But that is because I took a real maze and tried to turn it into a quilt. It was a good learning experience, and even as careful as I was, I had to rip and redo a few spots because I ended up with a maze with no solution LOL!!

Here is the last one bound for tonight. I looked for two years before I found the perfect Rose prints for this pattern.

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The quilting on this is amazing! I love the solid back to show such gorgeous quilting. And although your maze might have been a pain to do, it is absolutely fabulous! Makes me want to do one:-)

missing this one. DS and his family got here about 7:30 last night and it's been non-stop all day. i maybe will get a chance to work on my pre-cut fusible or quilting son's vest--but right now I'm worn out!

I thought that I would set the machine up today but I couldn't get my head out the book. Sometime I get just as caught up in reading as I do the sewing, or piecing. Well, tomorrow will be just as cold or colder and they are predicting some snow for overnight. I usually don't travel when that happens so I maybe sitting up that little Featherweight in the morning. Then I'll work one of these unfinished works around here.

Ladies you doing some very lovely work that you are getting finished. Just beautiful and please continue and loving the pictures.

Happy New Years to all. Thanks Raggiemom for hosting again and allowing all that joined in the opportunity to start the new year off right.

I pulled out a Christmas quilt kit that was from 2000!!!! It's kind of a sampler and they can be tedious but hopefully I'll finish it before the new year begins!

Macybaby...you are an incredibly creative quilter. Your rose quilt is stunning...the quilting beautiful.. You had a very successful day...good for you.

I have 3 BOM blocks to get done in the next 10 days. What I really need to do is clean, sort & get rid of some fabric. It is past time for a clean out.

There is so many finishes and progress. They're wonderful quilts.
I love going to the charity quilt stash. I take the most challenging. I have enough quilts (need to get rid of some). I get a new challenge and it doesn't add to my stack of quilts and it finishes another charity quilt.

I had plans to finish LA a quilt. First I had to get UFO's on top of the LA put away. An hour later, out came a customer project. While straighening the edges, I discovered the back is too small (I love this lady and she's always so creative, and a little scatter brained). I called her for directions. 8 hours later she hasn't returned my call. Since I hadn't expected her to, I got out a UFO to quilt. Discovered I didn't have an appropriate panto and don't feel very creative (I've already tried that on this quilt and had to un-sew). The web site for my favorite panto supplier has Mal-ware and not available. So, with DH's help, got the king size loaded. Hopefully within a couple days all this will be resolved.
Tomorrow is Sunday ad DH wants me to help him put together the covers for my cold frame, raised veg garden. Maybe I'll be able to get it fertilized and water. Out here in sunny California, we're in a drought again. There might be a little rain on Wed.
So I'll go hunt for another UFO for Monday.

Macybaby, your work is always so inspiring. Love how you appliqued a few rose blooms outside the trellis, so it would look like real roses growing through. Gorgeous!

I finished clue 7 of the BH mystery: 100 double geese units... all sewed wrong. I had my geese V shaped, not pyramid shaped, so that put the brown on the top, not the bottom. (Aren't real geese V shaped??) I was going to wait to see if I could use them that way anyway, but then got a wild hair tonight to rip them all out. So I picked out 100 seams with tiny stitching. My fingers hurt, but I'm ready to sew them all correctly tomorrow.

Cautionary Tale: Be sure your geese are flying the right way before you sew them!

We are expected to have an ice storm Sunday. It's 40 degrees tonight, but by 9am it's supposed to drop below freezing and stay there for days. It's rainy so they expect freezing rain, which is the pits. We hoped for some snow, not this awful mess. They have asked people not to get out and drive tomorrow unless it's an emergency, so I'm planning to stay in and sew to my heart's content. Hoping the power stays on!

You're all putting me to shame. I've spent 15 mins tidying my sewing room! Today has got to be better I'm not going into 2018 with creative clutter around me. So much beautiful work. Love the woven curtains, all the square in squares, I've loads of batik so that might make a nice start to the new year. Macy tell me you're machine stitching those bindings. It takes me ages to hand stitch but I thought I was quite fast.

here's a link to the free pattern for you http://www.maryquilts.com/boxed-squares/

Good morning! It's -18 this morning (but tomorrow is suppose to be the coldest). Glad I don't live where it gets really cold because this is cold enough for me! My digital outdoor gauge will error out at -19.9 so I expect that will happen be what it says tomorrow AM.

Not even any cat prints outside in the snow this AM - the outdoor cats are all curled up in the heated shop the last few days. They've put aside their disagreements for now . . . there are 6 of them outside.

I'm looking forward to another day of alternating binding and work in the BH Mystery. Not finished with clue 5 yet, so not started on 6 or 7 and expect we'll get 8 today. At least the last clues are on the assembly side, so they go a lot faster (no cutting and no trimming).

Now that I've got the larger quilts out of the way, the binding should go faster. I've got a few that have become favorites to bind up - that is a good motivator.

Yes Cannyquilter - I am machine stitching. If I was hand stitching, the first one wouldn't be done yet (probably not even started). When I started this back in 2014, I did one small wall hanging and it took me four hours to hand sew the back. That was when I decided if I wanted to make lots of quilts, hand sewing the binding was not going to work for me.

Wow, everyone has some beautifully finished quilts.

I was going to do some peicing, but since I had black thread on the machine and the next quilt in the pile needed black binding - I did that instead.

This one is going to hang on the wall behind the LA. Since the "Machine Shed" is in the next room, it's a good place for it. I went with Hearts for the quilting - since I do love my vintage machines!

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This uses two panels and I got the basic layout from equilter (love them for panel ideas). I put the leftovers on the back, since I didn't think I'd want them for anything else and didn't want to cut them up for scraps.

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I will be adding binding to two quilts. Then I will be starting a new quilt from my stash.

nicely done and appropriate place to hang it

another donation top done... this was donation fabric and had to be washed and pressed. so that took some time :)

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Love the vintage sewing machine quilt, Cathy!

I am working on taking back my sewing storage room. The old roommates are now in Kansas, and I am slowly moving back into the storage room so I have room to make quilts again. It has been a long two years. I can’t wait to finish moving. Got the DD and SIL coming later this week to move the two huge cabinets with the hand truck, but meanwhile I am organizing so it will be more user friendly this time. Yippee!

I've finally got clue 5 done (ready to trim) so I'm not too far behind . . . time to switch gears again and put another binding on. Had to talk a walk out into the cold to get the yellow thread that I forgot to bring in when I brought in the quilt.

Taking a cookie break right now.

If I was more caught up with everything, I had considered doing the Mary mayheim mystery, but I've got enough to keep my busy already.

Love all the pics! I got my top together and now am onto transforming the dining room back from being a sewing room.

I'll be keeping an eye on Merry Mayhem too... and if I like it, I'll download the clues for later. It think I'll be plenty busy with the Ringo Lake mystery tomorrow.

I have part 2 of the NYD mystery done. Also finished a carpenters star to consume leftover from a recent quilt. Washing the flannel to back this star. I am still trying to get over a nasty cold so I am moving in slow motion. Now DH has taken the cold. Rough way to start the year but I will get over it sonner or later

Here is another binding done! My DD fell in love with this one when she was visiting - wondered if I could make it king size for her. This one took enough work getting it this big, don't know if I'd want to tackle going another round or two!

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I sewed the combos into strips and then cut triangles, so I had some leftovers to use on the back side. I like to use leftover backing on these smaller quilts too.

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Oh my! I just realized I have one block upside down! Oh well, way to late to do anything about it LOL!!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]586293[/ATTACH]Some Swedish Star ornaments I made for little gifts. Unfortunately was sick most of Dec. with bronchitis so am finishing what I said I was going to complete for the previous VQW lol! Post more tomorrow. Have a safe and Happy New Year everyone!

I've been squaring up flannel 4 patch blocks. Have to cut chenille squares (probably next weekend) that will
alternate with the 4 patch blocks. Sure wish I had started this quilt sooner. Could definitely use it this week as
temps will be in the single digits here and wind will send it to below zero (wind chill factor).

Thank You!!!

Wow...beautiful pictures..Macybaby...you are rockin it, girl! Gorgeous completions.

Nesie....adorable ornaments. So glad you are on the mend. I was sick thru holidays, too..then hubbie got it....Our Christmas was postponed for tomorrow so I am baking treats for my treat tray for the family. On my 4th cookie recipe, made peanut clusters, then going to make cheesecake bites. That should be enough. I may hit the sewing room later today to finish swap blocks.

Happy New Years! I'm hesitant to mention this but it's 78 degrees today...running around barefoot with windows open.

Treats...mmmm, sounds good! A friend brought some kind of turtle thing she made, really easy. Small pretzel topped with a rollo candy (intcomes in a roll, chocolate covered caramel) and then topped with a half pecan. Microwave just a tad until the candy starts to melt, take it out and push the pecan down to squish it all, and let cool. :thumbup:

Anyway, not actually quilting this afternoon, but I am taking some time to put a few more pictures and pages into my quilt journal. It has fallen way behind, it is easy to take pictures and have them on the computer, but today I am printing some out & trying to document the patterns, who they went to etc.
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Rub salt in the wound, high today so far is -4 don't even want to talk about the wind chill. Not going anywhere!

Did get the table runner finished, now working on BOM from 2015. It's a Jinny Buyer from Craftsy, doing as much as possible by hand. Here is runner will attach the binding when I get home.
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Ooooo....dang, I will write down this rolo recipe for next year. I love Rolo's..... For your visual pleasure.....peanut clusters, coco chip cookies, sugar cookies (my grandmothers recipe), lemon cookies....last recipe to go...

Macybaby, holy cow you have blown me away with all your projects. Love the basket quilt your mom made and what a fabulous canvas for some drop dead quilting!! That applique quilt of yours (is it hearts of darkness only done on light background?) turned out so spectacular. I was almost bummed that you didn't opt for a completely solid back to show off all that ditch work you did, practically a whole cloth. Then that kaliedescope (aka spiderweb) in blue in yellow completely knocked my socks off. What a spectacular demonstration of what can be done with fabric placement. Take a bow girlfriend!

Chasezzz, that rainbow quilt is drop dead gorgeous. I hope you started a thread in pictures with it. If not, please do so as many members will miss it otherwise.

I am longarming this weekend and working on this all batik HST quilt for my ex SIL (amicable divorce so all parties are still friends)
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