Trying the new blogger

This change is being forced on us, so I'm doing a test post.

Do you see lilacs?

May is almost over?

Oh, good heavens!  The June color for the RSC is already released and I've barely gotten any green-for-May sewing done. 
I did do another Jacks & Sixes block, which is a puzzler for sure since I keep thinking I've got plenty of these for a quilt and I really need to stop.

But they're easy and fun to make and they just seem to keep piling up.  (Is there a quilt size bigger than King?  Emperor?)

And because Sally T has given me postage envy -

this little ditty turned up on my sewing table. (Not that I've started another new quilt.  Absolutely not.) (It's only one block.) (I can stop any time I want.)

Linking with SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday.  Then it looks like I'd better go root out my pink scrap bin.  I'm sure it's around here somewhere...

What was that I was saying about time flying?

Despite the fact that I sincerely believed that I had just posted, it seems that a couple of weeks have gone speeding by... 
People are starting to ask if I'm alright, so here's me waving cheerily.  (These days, I worry about people too when they go silent for a bit.  I'll try to do better.)
I'm actually spending more time procrastinating than sewing, so I don't have much to show for all that time.   (I have reviewed a considerable amount of material on Pinterest, though, which is a procrastinator's dreamsite)
I got Bonnie Hunter's Unity up to this point -

which is the end of Clue #5.  (My design wall isn't flat, which is why my quilt isn't either.  We all make do with what we've got.)
That round of friendship stars for Clue #4 really kicked my butt, and I still can't figure out why.  They're not hard to make and there aren't that many of them, but they just seemed endless.  Of course it didn't help that no matter how many I made, my count kept coming up short.  I can't tell you how many times I needed 'just four more'.  Maybe they were kicking my butt just before taking off into a black hole...
Clue #6 was just a metric butt-ton of HSTs, so if I can keep them from leaping into that black hole after the stars, I should have a good start on them when Clue #7 drops tomorrow.  (I've only got about 1/3 of them sewn together, but I've got platefuls of triangles cut out and stacked by the sewing machine)
Wish me luck!

Linking with Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!  (And at some point I hope to get back to the RSC every week, if I can cut down on the procrastinating...)

Where does the time go?

It's been a while so I figured I'd better check in, just to say 'still here!'
I haven't gotten as much sewing done as I'd like, but at least I got Clue 3 done for Bonnie Hunter's Unity SAL.

(It's squarer in real life than it looks in this photo.  Honest.)

I've cut a few pieces for Clue 4 and hope to get the next border stitched up this weekend.  I'm only a week behind as of now, but there's another clue coming on Monday.

Just need to focus better on that focus thing...

Ready for round three

I sewed like the wind today and got the latest round of Bonnie Hunter's Unity mystery quilt done so I'll be ready for Clue 3 tomorrow.  Can't wait to see what's next!

I'm happy with the red/blue/brown cholor scheme I've got going on for this quilt.

And even with all that blue all over my cutting mat, I only got one block done for the RSC this week.

This is another of the blocks that I thought I was done making, but clearly I'm wrong about this one, too.

Unless I've accidentally started another quilt?


Linking with SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday and with Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!  Come see all the scrappy fun while you stay safe and healthy!

Why, no, I'm not starting a new project. Why do you ask?

This project I'm not starting (Hi, Sally!) has its beginning in my being gifted with this book a couple of years ago.  (Dear daughter caught me drooling all over its pages at a quilt shop we were visiting)

Didn't start the quilt, though!  Strong am I, and focused.

And then a year or two later I 'accidentally' bought the templates for cutting the pieces.  (oops!) 

Still didn't start the quilt!  Too many projects going already!  Must resist!

And then I found this fabric.

And fell head over heels.  A fussy-cutter's dream, I tell ya!  And in all my colors!  How perfect is that?

I grabbed those templates and my mirror-thingy (another 'accidental' acquisition - not that I was starting a new project) and started playing.

There's just no bad place to set those templates down.

 Next thing I knew, I was pulling fabric and had my rotary cutter in hand

and was starting to accumulate all kinds of bits and bobs.

Maybe something warmer for those skinny diamonds?

And what about for this one?  Blue?

Or green?

And now I've noticed that little piles of zippybags are appearing.

And I finally figured out what that little dumpling bag I'd made was for.

But I haven't sewn a stitch yet, so it totally doesn't count as starting a quilt, right?

Right?

Though for an unstarted project, there sure are a bunch of holes in that fabric...


Linking with Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!  Lots of scrappy goodness going on!

Another day, another doodad

Our new color for the RSC is blue - the lights and the brights.

I had some leftover blue triangles sitting right on my cutting mat, thanks to Bonnie Hunter's new SAH mystery.  I grabbed some orange triangles to set them off (because nothing sets off blue quite so well as orange) (actually nothing sets off any color quite so well as orange) and there's the first April Doodad.

Speaking of Bonnie's Unity, here's the center of the medallion on my design wall, complete with 1.5" neutral border.

You'll notice the design wall has a Conspicuous Lack of Sand Castles.

That's because they're currently partially webbed and heaped all over my chair and ironing board.

Seven columns down and one to go!  Then I can start sewing the rows together.  Getting closer!


Linking with SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday.  Come admire the rainbows!