Snowballs on a Snow Day

 Today was a snow day, the second one in two weeks.  Snow days don't bring the dread that they once did, you knew if you had a snow day you would have to make it up later in the year.  No More, we now have digital learning days.  Students have online work to do and if we don't have a classroom we have to watch training videos and take a quiz.  Did that first thing this morning then headed to the sewing room.








 I decided to work on the snowball blocks for the
Temecula Quilt Company scrappy snowball sew along.  I was a week behind and wanted to get caught up.  I am using fabrics from my stash for
the snowball blocks.  Each week you should make 8 light blocks and 8 dark blocks. 

After finishing my snowball blocks I finished up my flying geese for ORL by Bonnie Hunter.  One good thing about making this after all of the steps have been published you can skip around.  I decided to make all of the flying geese at one time.   Mine are cheddar and brown with neutrals.  Only thing left is to trim them up.  Hopefully can do that tomorrow, another SNOW DAY.

Clue 1, at last

I always look forward to Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt in November.  However, I never get to start on it until after the first of the year.  I am always diligent about printing each and every clue and putting them aside in a special notebook.  Since I had an unexpected day off today, I decided to get started on it.  I finished the first clue, love the way it is looking.  I switched up the colors a little, I am totally using my stash,  I decided to go with repros in blues, cheddars, and shirtings. 

Finally Made it to Easy Street

I love it when Bonnie Hunter starts a new mystery, I don't always get them finished in a timely manner, but I get them started!!!  When the directions came out, I thought getting paint strips from the hardware store was a great idea to decide on color.  DH and I were at Ace and I picked up some stripes, very similar to the ones Bonnie is using.  Later that day while walking in the woods up at the cabin I noticed all of the great greens, reds, and cheddars.  It came to me, why not use those colors.  If they are found in nature they should work in a quilt.   When getting home I went through my stash and came up with some great reds, greens and cheddars.  I was stuck on the background color, didn't want to use gray.  I had a perfect piece of chocolate brown but didn't have two yards of it.  I guess I would have to go shopping, something I am trying really hard not to do.  I decided to for the lights to use shirting's in neutral colors.  After getting everything together except the constant, I was looking forward to the first set of instructions, well one thing lead to another and I didn't get started right away.  Lucky for me.  I saw in the second set of instructions that you really didn't need two yards of the constant fabric, which meant I could use the chocolate brown piece that I already had.  Yeah!!!!

Some of step one, these are the first ones I did.  It took me two nights to finish them.

Now on to step two.  Sometimes it pays to be behind. 

Bonnie Hunter Mystery

 I did it again, I started another quilt.  I wasn't going to, but I did.  When I read that Bonnie Hunter was doing another mystery quilt I thought oh, that is nice, but I am not doing it.  I have two of her mystery quilts that I still haven't finished. But of course I changed my mind when I saw the colors she suggested using.  I don't have to buy a thing, I have tons of pink, green, brown, and cream in my stash.  The first clue came out on Friday.  I have almost completed it.  I had to dig through my stash and find a few more pinks.  I had a lot of greens already pulled, but definitely needed more pinks.  Here are some of my two inch strips, along with some of the strips that I have started to sew together and cut into 2 inch pieces.

Stips cut into two inch pieces awaiting the next clue.