Bonnie Hunter's latest mystery quilt, Carolina Christmas, is almost done! I chose a different layout than what she designed, but I still like how it's turning out. Click on the badge below if you're interested in the directions for the mystery or just to check out Bonnie Hunter's great website!

I am so excited that Bonnie Hunter has decided to do another mystery quilt this holiday season! I just finished her latest mystery called "Christmas Lights" that was published in Quiltmaker magazine. It still needs borders, but that's pretty much considered done in my book ;)

The last thing I need is another project (how many of us do??), but when I found out that Modify Tradition is starting a quilt along I could not resist. I found this blog through one of my flickr groups and I'm already hooked. I love the look of modern quilts, but I love traditional quilts too! I'm excited to create something that blends old with new. Here's the first block I made. It's a traditional 9-patch made with the fabric line "Wonderland" by Moda.

Check out the new button on my side bar. It is for the Stash Busting Bee that started recently on Flickr. The US only group is full, but they are looking for participants who are willing to post internationally to fill a second group.

Memorial Day weekend was so relaxed that it turned into an unofficial sew-a-thon for me. It's slightly surprising that I had so much time to sew even with spending Monday at the beach and having family afternoon out at the movies and dinner on both Saturday and Sunday (We saw Night at the Museum II and Earth). So without further ado, here's what I got accomplished....

I finished quilting this:

I LOVED doing the swirls. It was so much easier than I expected. Here's some detail:

On Monday at the beach, I did the binding on this UFO:

I pieced these tops for Quilts for Kids from my own stash (as opposed to using their donated fabric). First is a Girls' I Spy Snowball top:

Here are 3 boys' I Spy quilts. The first was harder than I expected when it came time to put it together. I stuck with some easy 4 patches after that!! The first was a UFO that I finally finished. The second 2 quilts were easier and I pieced them over the weekend.

This weekend I put some borders on the baseball quilt and finished quilting and binding it along with the Spiderman quilt. I pieced ANOTHER top for Q4K and made myself a new ironing board cover. I LOVE IT!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy sewing to everyone :)

This is my most recently completed project. It is a Grandmother's Braid quilt made entirely from scraps. A portion of the scraps were given to me by Karen from Australia, who was my partner for the We the People Scrap Swap. She included the pattern because it is very scrap-friendly. Figuring that it was the perfect way to have a memory of the swap, I went straight to work on the project and LOVE the way it turned out. I used my embroidery module to quilt feathers down the braids, and I did leaves in the border freehand. I am very happy with how this quilt turned out!