Saturday, December 7, 2013

It's been a while....

Well it seems I haven't posted here in almost six months. Laurie had an incident with a propellor on one of his model planes and I played nurse maid for almost two months. Work has been busy but still really just excuses.

So I'm back and ready to go. I have mostly been hand sewing of late so thought it was time to get reacquainted with this:-


I have started two of Bonnie's mysterys in the past but made little progress. This year I am determined to finish. It won't be done as per her schedule but I will get there in the end.

The first order of business was the purchase of a tri recs ruler set.


These units have always frightened me in the past but I am determined to get better on the machine. My stash is exploding and I will be able to make a larger dent if I am machine piecing. So last Saturday was time for the first clue and of course it was tri recs units. I bit the bullet and just went for it and lo and behold the first unit finished to size.


Over the course of the week I managed a little more sewing and as of this morning I had 21 completed units.


Clue 2 is now up so these will how on the back burner while I make some of this weeks chevron units.

I posted this from my IPad for the first time and it seems to have done something weird to the photos. They come up ok in draft but are not right when published. Something to learn about I guess.

5 comments:

Kathryn said...

Hi Brenda, they look ok to me! How can I access that mystery quilt site? I'm out of touch with MQ's and really like them. Thanks.

Brenda said...

Kathryn,

quiltville.blogspot.com

Or Google Bonnie Hunter Celtic Solistice

mereth said...

Glad to see you back Brenda, sort of guessed life must be busy. I hope Laurie is fine now, it sounds nasty if it took nearly two months to heal. Give him my love won't you? And we're doing the mystery too, we intend to keep up just enough so we can play along and finish in our own time, like you.

Dy said...

Looking forward to seeing your quilt progress,
What happened with your photos btw? I tried blogging once via iPad and it wouldn't publish photos at all. Did you use the Blogger app? I must have another try, your post looks fine,

Chookyblue...... said...

lucky Laurie is still alive with you playing nurse maid........looks like he survived the cooking..........LOL....what was your favourite meal to cook???
and you can't say none....

like the blocks...........