A request for a kitty quilt.

A nephew and his wife adopted a kitten recently, a request came for a welcome to the family quilt.

This kitty is white and fluffy, so something with pink and some colours to make sure she will be seen on said quilt.

Lupine and Laughter Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt is finished, with binding on. This quilt will be gifted in due course, scraps no more! Perfect distraction from the very cold weather and all the snow. We have had a lot of snow.

The top is done.

With the blast of cold weather and winter going down a rabbit hole and hibernating is exactly what happened. Work continued and the blocks got sewn together in rows. borders was added and a victory lap was added to keep all the seams from flip flopping when quilting starts.

Baby quilts created with panels happens and one was finished with scraps of binding. The binding box with leftovers was pulled and a few pieces got sorted, added to projects that need binding. Some have starts others are still needing more work. The piles of projects got sorted and packed away for now, important for the space to be cleared. For months it was waiting and that finally happened.

A kitty quilt was requested, that is awaiting some quilting. More snow fell and we continue to clear snow as soon as we can. Life continues with birthdays and celebrations, cake is baked by request for the person who is celebrating a milestone. This one requested a Victoria Sponge, by Mary Berry.

Mystery continues into a top.

We got a big winter storm, with lots of snow. Yesterday was a cleaning up, then going out a few hours later and cleaning up more snow. Late last night the plow came past, our neigbour had offered earlier in the day to use his snowblower to cleanup after the plow and we accepted his offer. In return we baked some dessert and shared it with him and his family. Today will be a relaxing day and recovering from all the shovelling of the snow.

Jaunary RSC26 colour is blue. Last year at Quilt Canada, I bought a book and decided that this is a project to add to my list. All those bits of embroidery floss and threads will be used in this. The book use wool? Instead of wool, flannel will be used.

Also created a piece of fabric to do the embroidery on, it is a soft open woven cotton with flannel as the filling to the sandwich which was quilted with a large stipple.

Quilted a baby panel, it was just to play and practice. It needed more quilting, so it got another layer of a smaller stipple allover the panel again.

The mystery quilt play and layout was done, it is now ready to be sewn into a top.

Bonnie Hunter Mystery Reveal happened on Friday.

Last week with all the cold and icy weather, time spent indoors got the mystery clues all caught up for the next one which happened on Friday morning. As sometimes happens, there may be a called for ruler? Looked at it and decided not to get this ruler.

Printed out the paper piecing version first. Read the instructions for cutting the rectangles and sewing them as if one had the called for ruler. Then decided to sew them like this first. Early one morning, a light bulb went off reminding me of another ruler in my sewing room. Quilt in a day flying geese ruler.

So true to making due with what we have, I repurposed it for the mystery and it worked.The crazy part, it was the exact size for the required pieces.

Next was the cat ears, so those got made. the leftover corner bits was also sewn into triangle squares and turned into pinwheels. (This is not part of the pattern, just something for me).

These trimmed bits very many times ends up in the trash, making pinwheels just made more sense to me.

Once the reveal happened, parts got sorted into units for the bigger blocks. With this one, the bottom of some of the scraps got scraped clean. I actually had to buy extra fabric to be able to continue to finish some blocks. (Also decided this is one of the best Bonnie Hunter mystery quilts ever. Have many blocks in multiple colours waiting in boxes waiting to be used one day. Those will be turned into leaders and enders for another one in a very scrappy rainbow version of this one.)

This one was made with mainly larger leftover fabrics from two kingsize quilts, so much more controlled and matching for a better word to describe it.

The quilt compromise of two sets of larger blocks, to create the main part of the quilt. It has a flying geese border, with four cornerstone blocks to frame the center of the quilt.

Time will be spent over the next while to sew the elements together and assemble the quilt top.

Bonnie Hunter mystery.

Old man winter is here with a blast. -24C on the first day of the year? Time to get busy and hibernate, bears definitely know a thing or two. They sleep through it all, smart of them.

All the pieces are sewn so far, except part six. It is all ready for sewing together, awaiting their turn. I like to trim the blocks to the unfinished size, taking extra time to do this step.

Is it required? no just to trim the dog ears with a pair of scissors.