Sewing catch up!

 

Flock Together - I finished this top in record time!  Sew Sweet Quilt Shop in Brunswick was doing another quilt along over Thanksgiving week that had to have a completed top by today (December 3rd) in order to be entered into a drawing.  I have seen sew many different Flock Together quilts posted on their facebook page......each one different and I just can't decide which I like the best.  

I chose to use these bright batiks because............

My batik tub runneth over........the lid no longer came close to fitting!

I didn't follow the pattern instructions (imagine that!).  I used my easy angle and companion angle rulers to cut 144 flying geese!

The pattern didn't actually call for that many, but I was enjoying these fabrics so much I got carried away.......so I just made my top bigger than the pattern (and still got it done by the deadline!).

A gross of flying geese!

These were interspersed with the half square triangles for the new Bonnie Hunter Grassy Creek Mystery.  

I completed those last night as well...........good thing cuz the next clue releases tomorrow (Friday)!

Cici was a great help with this project.  She loves the honeycomb fabrics because they match her beautiful fur.  She looked at me pointedly as if to say that my hair is starting to match the other color.

While I was rooting around in the batik tub, I pulled the scraps to make this.  It was a pattern I drafted myself.  The strips are only 1" wide, so this is very small.  I'm debating how to finish it now.

There is not a lot to be said for the next 3 photos except that they are part of a bingo game I am playing with Hen & Chicks Studio.

Looks like there might be a new project getting started!  I really said that I wasn't going to keep doing these quilt-a-longs, and I definitely said I wasn't doing Bonnie Hunter's mystery this year.  But, I liked Bonnie's colors, and I had enough scraps to do it, and the Bingo game sounded like so much fun, and because of the Flock Together quilt, I can get the lid on the batik tub, so what's a few more projects started!  I have NO willpower and am very good at justifying my sewing habits.  Let's just say it keeps me out of trouble.

Well, the next clue for the Morewood Mystery quilt was released today, so I better get back to it!

Christi