Abundance

 I am so excited to share this post with you. 

I've been working for months on a paper piecing project that has really stolen my heart...

This is "Abundance" a Bonnie Hunter scrap quilt.

She named it that because of how many scraps are in it and she wasn't kidding.

To took over 11 yards of scraps (according to Bonnie) and much of it was done with as little as 1 1/2" scraps. See, there is a reason we keep tiny stuff!!!  HAHAHA

I love the optical illusion you get, because the white scraps are narrower. 

I would love to tell you I am now scrap free, but I would be a big ole liar!

For the world I don't know how that happens.

And that's what I have been up to!

What's on you sewing table?

Hamilton Gardens

I have finished the quilt I was piecing on our road trip/retreat in May.

It has to be one of my favorite Bonnie Hunter Quilts

This is Hamilton Gardens.

It's the greatest scrap buster for those crazy people like me, who keep every little scrap. I blasted through lots of things that most people would throw away! 

LOL!!

I am so enthralled with it, that I am seeing it done using beautiful Christmas fabrics and even a Halloween quilt, maybe with a lime green background fabric.

Who knows what will pop up here some day.

You likely saw Carol and I are kicking around a couple of blog hops this fall.

Halloween and Christmas. Don't get your hopes up, this quilt won't be done in holiday colors, for either of them, but we are thrilled with the response we have gotten. 

The hops are a "GO" and we will be getting more information, the logos and the official sign up out, very soon.

A big thanks to all of you for the sweet emails you sent.

 

I'm Back...

You haven't heard from me much lately, but I'm still here and I've been busy...

This is my latest finish.

Rockability Swing

 It's another Bonnie Hunter scrapbuster. 

This one is a biggie. It's 108" x 108" and all paper pieced.

I forgot just how much I love paper piecing until I started on this.

There are over 300 blocks in this one and it did make a dent in my scraps,

 but honestly not as much as I thought it would. 

Maybe that's just a sign of how big my scrap pile really is.

LOL!!

My longarm is only 10' wide, so I had to quilt it in 3 pieces. 

The center is one big piece. Then I quilted 2 rows separately and added one to each side, using the quilt as you go method. 

It's big and fits my king size bed perfectly!

It's fun to look at all the different fabrics in scrappy quilts. Hearing the grandies squeal, when they find something like spiders, Santa or princess fabrics makes me laugh. Yes, there is Christmas, Halloween, Princess and everything in between in this.

In May, a friend and I took a road trip...

It was a quilting week for both of us, that started at MSQC.

We rented a house, in front of their warehouse for a few days and enjoyed shopping and quilting.

The little house was "Pipers Place" that was recommended on the MSQC website and was a perfect place for our needs.

We headed south after that and spent the rest of our time at a wonderful AIRBNB in Branson Missouri.

From there we took a day trip down to one of my bucket list places.

I've never been to Arkansas and honestly, I didn't think we would ever find the place.

It was 3 1/2 hours of driving thru dense forests on curvy roads and having no idea where the heck we were. If the GPS had failed us, they would still be looking for us. LOL!!

But WOW...was it worth every minute of drive time.

Rows and rows of fabric...by the bolt, by the yard, by the bundle..

We didn't even see all the the warehouse in the time we were there, it was just soooooo big!

But my credit card said that I had done enough damage and it was time to leave.

HAHAHA

(but seriously, you can not beat their prices)

Lets just say, at least 180 yards of fabric and a roll of batting followed me home. 

My friend did just about as much damage as I did, as well. 

We had rented a full size car for the trip and when we picked it up, we were shocked at how small a full size car was, but we made it work. Who knew you could cram so much into a car that size.

If only I had taken photos of that!

LOL!!

 

Unchained is Officially Finished

 It's been a minute...

Or a month, or even half a year. Time flies when you're having fun!

But I am happy to say, that "Unchained" is officially complete.

You all know that I am a huge scrappy quilt lover and Bonnie Hunter is my go to girl for them.

I fell in love with this one with X's and O's on it when I first saw it. It was a great scrap buster and heaven knows, I have scraps. LOL!!

You really have to stand back to see the design emerge. Up close it looks like scrap soup! HEHEHE

I started this one on a quilt retreat in New York last year where I managed to get all the blocks pieced. Once I was home, I put the top together and the blue sashing. Then the holidays seemed to take over and it was pushed back in a corner for way longer than I had planned. The border was so simple to piece, using phone book pages, that I had to wonder just why it took me so long to get back to it.

Anyway she is done and I love it.

Now on to Bonnie's, Hamilton Gardens quilt. It's all cut out and ready to go. 

If playing doesn't get in my way next week.

LOL!!

Summer is right around the corner and I am so looking forward to sitting out by the pond and enjoying the warm weather. Followed no doubt by complaining it's too HOT!

HAHAHAHA

 

Are You Chilhowie-ing it?

I hope you all survived the holidays, so far!

I sat down this morning with my new favorite mug from my grandies, and finished up clue 5 on the Bonnie Hunter "Chilhowie" mystery quilt.

It's not often I actually keep up with the clues, but this year having a couple of  month off, while mom was on maternity leave, gave me the time.

We started putting some blocks together this week and I am in LOVE!

You would think we are well on our way...

...but I have a basket of parts, that say's otherwise. 

Oh, I do wonder what Bonnie has next for us???

It's not too late to jump in, you can find all the clues so far, on her blog

HERE

There's a tab at the top of the page.

This was our house yesterday. Sweet Pea got a karaoke machine...

Oh she absolutely loves it! Thank you Auntie Jessica and Uncle Mike, but little man...

Well, he did his best to sleep through her singing!

LOL!!

til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'

Time in a Bottle Blog Hop, It's My Day!

Welcome to my day to share, in the "Time in a Bottle" blog hop.

Carol at "Just Let Me Quilt" dreamed up this fun hop, to show all the ways you can use "hour glass" blocks and the timing couldn't have been better for me. I had just started the Bonnie Hunter "Rhododendron" mystery quilt. There are lots of little hour glass blocks...lets just say over 200 of them little buggers!

For a change I even managed to keep up with this mystery weekly, for almost the entire time.  Cutting, stitching, more cutting, more stitching. If there is one thing Bonnie does better than anyone else I know, it's how she uses up the craziest and even some of the ugliest scraps I've seen, and comes up with the most beautiful quilts in doing so.

This is my "Rhododendron Trail" quilt.

If you look close, you will notice that all those hour glass blocks make up a secondary design, throughout the quilt.

This quilt is 83" x 96" and was so big, I really didn't have a good place to hang it, to show it off at it's best. Here it is hanging on my long arm rail prior to quilting it.

A simple overall quilting design and this baby is done.

Now hop on over and see what my fellow bloggers have in their Hour Glasses!

Be sure to leave them a little love while your there too.

March 15

MooseStashQuilting (your here)

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

The Darling Dogwood

Quilting Gail

Time 4 Stitchn

Beaquilter

You can find the full schedule 

HERE

A big thanks to Carol, our hostess with the mostess! You rocked another fun hop for us all.

til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'

I'm Falling for You Blog Hop...my day!

 

 It's my day to share in the "I'm Falling For You" blog hop.

I've long been a huge fan of Bonnie Hunter and this year, I fell for her, hard! I worked on the "Grassy Creek Mystery" that started last November and have all but the borders done for it. But they just didn't happen once I found the papers I printed for "Pineapple Crazy" from her "String Fling" book. 

I dumped all my scraps...well maybe more like shards of fabric. The size a normal person might throw away, and emptied my scrap bins, even used up a box of scraps Selina, from "Selina Quilts" sent me earlier this year. This project is not for the faint of heart. There are 224 - 5" finished size paper pieced blocks, that have 45 pieces in each block! That's a total of 10,080 pieces. 

Additionally there were 60 border pieces, but they were a piece of cake with only 30 pieces in each block, which was only 1800 more pieces! Did I mention that they ranged from between 3/4" and 1" wide??? LOL!!

And here it is! All 11,880 pieces of it!

I couldn't have done it without help... Lots of help.

Sweet Pea is getting older now and likes to help. She manages my pieces and helps in removing the papers! Even before I'm done sewing them, sometimes!

I know she is going to be a quilter, because she has mastered that look of disgust, 

we all have when things don't work out right! 

Seriously though, this really did take a village to finish. I was getting down to the wire and a couple of my quilt club friends spent a Saturday removing paper from my blocks, so I could get this done in time for the hop. A big thanks to Dorothy and Jessica, I couldn't have done it without you!

Here is the corner of the border...Oh my, I completely forgot to add those numbers into my total pieces count! 

LOL!! 

After it was quilted, it got a thorough inspection!

Then, the official stamp of approval!

And that my friends is what "I am Falling For" this year!

It's been quite a week hasn't it. My fellow bloggers have not disappointed. 

Yesterday Karrin dazzled us with so many incredible fall projects.

Beth made an over the top cute Canadian wall hanging.

Daryl shared a project from her UFO pile that just knocked my socks off!

Karen made the sweetest little fall podlet.

Elana made us all fall hard, for her beautiful little pouches!

Kris shared a fun pattern for her "Beanstalk" table runner.

We are wrapping up this week, with these incredible bloggers. 

Check them out and leave them a little love!

Happy Fall Ya'll!

Friday September 24

QuiltFabrication

Ms P Designs USA

Lianne Makes Stuff

Quilted Delights

MooseStashQuilting (your here)

If I've said it once, I'll say it again...

We have the best blogging community around and I'm so happy to get to play with each and every one of you.

til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'