Bonnie Hunter 2024-25 Mystery -- Old Town
11-17-2024, 05:13 PM
#71
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: in my studio up to my chin in fabric
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Maybe this time....
I am going fabric shopping tomorrow. Maybe it is time for me to make another Bonnie Mystery. It always seems like i have a closet full of fabrics until I try to pick for a specific quilt... then nothing is right! LOL
11-18-2024, 08:41 AM
#72
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Location: Peoria, IL -- Midwest Transplant
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Yay! I love the familiar names but so nice to have some new folks join us. Hello again to the lurkers who don't post -- yeah, Barb (among others) I'm talking to you 
is ok, also glad to have you join us.
LI Diva, is perfectly normal to be nervous, especially the first time. There are many unfinished Bonnie Hunter projects mysteries or not. Not that I'm naming names or pointing fingers but several participants are still working on Indigo Way and I have two?? tops I did finish but haven't quilted yet (Indigo and Rhododendron) It is quite a bit of sewing, some weeks are pretty grueling, others are lighter. Again, there are no real deadlines except those we make for ourselves. Bonnie gives good instructions and I always have an increase in skill, and especially my organization skills. Having enough clips or bags or pizza boxes or whatever you might use is a pretty huge thing.
For a long time I was not suited to mystery projects, needed to know what it would be like, needed to be a bit more forgiving with myself about choices, needed more time, more money, more fabric... but then I started doing these and really started having a good time. It means so much to be able to do it with others even though we aren't in the same room. LOL none of my friends or quilting ladies have ever come along on the journey (except Barb who did her first last year and also had a surprisingly good time). Mostly I get blank looks and maybe a blink or two when I try and talk about the project.
I have gotten my sewing table pretty well cleared off and have run out of bobbin thread for the first time this project! I was putting together my back and only got about 2/3rds of the way through the seam. That is one big piece of fabric!!! Design is 78" square but I plan on making it larger. Since it is 50" decor fabric the back is roughly 100x120" -- plenty of room for enlarging.
One of my favorite quilting t-shirts is: It's all fun and games until the bobbin runs out!
is ok, also glad to have you join us.LI Diva, is perfectly normal to be nervous, especially the first time. There are many unfinished Bonnie Hunter projects mysteries or not. Not that I'm naming names or pointing fingers but several participants are still working on Indigo Way and I have two?? tops I did finish but haven't quilted yet (Indigo and Rhododendron) It is quite a bit of sewing, some weeks are pretty grueling, others are lighter. Again, there are no real deadlines except those we make for ourselves. Bonnie gives good instructions and I always have an increase in skill, and especially my organization skills. Having enough clips or bags or pizza boxes or whatever you might use is a pretty huge thing.
For a long time I was not suited to mystery projects, needed to know what it would be like, needed to be a bit more forgiving with myself about choices, needed more time, more money, more fabric... but then I started doing these and really started having a good time. It means so much to be able to do it with others even though we aren't in the same room. LOL none of my friends or quilting ladies have ever come along on the journey (except Barb who did her first last year and also had a surprisingly good time). Mostly I get blank looks and maybe a blink or two when I try and talk about the project.
I have gotten my sewing table pretty well cleared off and have run out of bobbin thread for the first time this project! I was putting together my back and only got about 2/3rds of the way through the seam. That is one big piece of fabric!!! Design is 78" square but I plan on making it larger. Since it is 50" decor fabric the back is roughly 100x120" -- plenty of room for enlarging.
One of my favorite quilting t-shirts is: It's all fun and games until the bobbin runs out!
11-19-2024, 08:47 PM
#73
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Well, I finally decided on my colorway. After debating over 3 different groups. I asked my hubby which group he liked. He chose, and Surprise, surprise, I’m making the mystery using my traditional colorway. I will be using cream on white, dark blue, medium blue and medium purple. Tomorrow is wash day, and Thursday is iron day. Then the fun begins I plan to do an ~ 70” by 90” top.
11-20-2024, 08:25 AM
#74
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Location: Georgia
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I'm still organizing my sewing room. Finally got all the boxes unpacked, but now to find room for everything! If I could be OK with letting go all the non quilting and machine embroidery stuff, I think I'd have room. Just not sure if I want to get rid of that.
I will keep the two totes of upholstery fabric suitable for making bags (also have a lot of hardware for them too). Probably keep the nice sating but toss the stiffer stuff that is more suitable for costumes. Probably let go most of the "clothing" type fabric - since I'll never make "office suitable" clothing now that I'm retired. Bought it for work and then moved to a different office on campus with a much more relaxed dress code, and now I'm retired . . .
My DD wants me to make a Christmas stocking for her nephew, so that is another motivation to getting to me sewing machine!
I will keep the two totes of upholstery fabric suitable for making bags (also have a lot of hardware for them too). Probably keep the nice sating but toss the stiffer stuff that is more suitable for costumes. Probably let go most of the "clothing" type fabric - since I'll never make "office suitable" clothing now that I'm retired. Bought it for work and then moved to a different office on campus with a much more relaxed dress code, and now I'm retired . . .
My DD wants me to make a Christmas stocking for her nephew, so that is another motivation to getting to me sewing machine!
11-20-2024, 03:35 PM
#75
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Location: Florida
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Maceybaby - when I was packing up to move, I realized, too, that I had non-quilting fabric and sewing stuff that I just didn't have any interest or need of using. Some of it I had a hard time parting with, but quilting is really my main interest now. I kept all the embroidery threads and products, though...so expensive to replace if I really got back into that again.
I thought I had my sewing room cleaned up and ready for mystery season. Then my daughter requests a chair pad for her office chair. We go fabric shopping for her to pick out what she likes....and she finds two other fabrics that she "really likes" too and puts her order in for a reading pillow and a tablet case. She knows I love to make her things and I do....I just have a messy sewing room again, lol!
Oh, and my kind neighbor works in a small upholstery store. I had been watching Christine's Home Affairs on YouTube and thought it would be great to see if my neighbor had samples or cut-offs she could give me. So I asked and now have two totes! I'd love to use the fabric for bags...someday!!!
I thought I had my sewing room cleaned up and ready for mystery season. Then my daughter requests a chair pad for her office chair. We go fabric shopping for her to pick out what she likes....and she finds two other fabrics that she "really likes" too and puts her order in for a reading pillow and a tablet case. She knows I love to make her things and I do....I just have a messy sewing room again, lol!
Oh, and my kind neighbor works in a small upholstery store. I had been watching Christine's Home Affairs on YouTube and thought it would be great to see if my neighbor had samples or cut-offs she could give me. So I asked and now have two totes! I'd love to use the fabric for bags...someday!!!
11-21-2024, 04:17 PM
#80
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Location: USA
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tomorrow after 9 am we will see BH first clue.
I am anxious to see who or whom posts first on the finish of clue one. I may or may not sew until the last clue, so I will know what colors are where in the quilt. Undecided on 'old town colors' or using batiks. Had the stash, but someone has helped themselves after husband died to some 8 to 12 big totes sometime, somehow. I had other things on my mind and did not notice until a kind neighbor helped me to "straighten up" my quilt room. Cannot change the past, its onward into the future and enjoy each day. Karma will hit the one who did it, I am sure. Good to see you, JeannieG on the list to do BH.
I am anxious to see who or whom posts first on the finish of clue one. I may or may not sew until the last clue, so I will know what colors are where in the quilt. Undecided on 'old town colors' or using batiks. Had the stash, but someone has helped themselves after husband died to some 8 to 12 big totes sometime, somehow. I had other things on my mind and did not notice until a kind neighbor helped me to "straighten up" my quilt room. Cannot change the past, its onward into the future and enjoy each day. Karma will hit the one who did it, I am sure. Good to see you, JeannieG on the list to do BH.
