I’ve started clue #3 for the Bonnie Hunter mystery. Â I’ve not gotten far though. Â Christmas busyness has come front and center. Â The Christmas cards had to get finished…
The cookies had to get made. Â Figuring out the final presents had to happen.
In between it all I managed to pull out the 2″ scrap bucket and see it there were any purples….Nope. Â Purple isn’t a color I use often.
I got my fabric from Whittles Fabrics. Â There were some purples in the selection but I wanted more so I dug in may fat quarters to come up with a few more. Â I had a little difficulty coming up with a selection of both lights and darks. Â In a perfect world, I’d like more variety but oh well, this will do.
I haven’t found time to start sewing them together but it will happen and I’m sure I’ll be done with the clue by Friday when the new clue comes out. Â I still get up early each morning and sew. Â These are the perfect project for some early morning…or late evening sewing. Â I adore 4 patches. Â Few things make me happier to sew than 4 patches.
I am getting a little nervous with these clues though. Â This mystery is starting to remind me of Easy Street. Â We sewed really easy clues and then WHAM. We were done with the easy clues and were putting blocks together that weren’t that easy to assemble. Â It was easy to twist and turn the pieces and like a fool, that year I made TWO mystery quilts at the same time because the clues were so easy. Â We’ll see….part of the fun is the anticipation!
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Had to laugh about the Easy Street reference, exactly what I was thinking! Did not have enough purples either and since I work strictly from stash, I went with orangy reds and light orange. We shall see.
I hear you on the clues, Jo.
I’ve got 10 more from clue #2 to sew, (slowpoke here)
and then it’s on to clue #3 for me.
this is starting to get exciting!
I was thinking the same thing, Jo. I’d rather do some of the complicated parts before Christmas as I tend to get behind then.
I am way behind. Don’t even have everything cut out yet! Had to go buy purples as I don’t have a big stash of anything, and no purple. Still trying to finish a Christmas gift quilt for another great-niece.
You make me laugh. “Like a fool” you made two Easy Street Mystery Quilts. I made Easy Street, too, and thought I had fallen down the rabbit hole when trying to put it together. I finally gave that one to a friend because I didn’t like the colors.
This year, I am sitting out the mystery while taking care of family responsibilities. But I do love to see what the rest of the quilters are doing with it.
Oh man! Dont say that! Ive been getting the clues done quickly for the first time!
I love to sew four patches, too. My leader/enders for the last year and a half have been 1.5″ squares sewn into four patches.
You’re the second person I’ve seen refer to Easy Street as an ‘uhoh-watch-out’ sort of reference. I’ll have to go look it up! 8)
Easy Street is my MUST finish completely before the end of December. I think I have stalled out on 4 blocks left to make and then assembly. I don’t know that I have borders, backing, or binding picked out . . . I did get up and sew my last 18 4 patches this morning before work. Step 2 is cut out but not all sewn. I have LOTS of 4 patch pressing to do. 3 days until my break starts, wonder if I could get a snow day between now and then?? LOL!