Bonnie Hunter will be in Indiana!!!!

Yep!
She will be in North Manchester tomorrow-I will be there.
She will be in Goshen/Elkhart on Monday-I will be there.
She is now in Fort Wayne!!! Just a few minutes from me!!! I keep looking out the window hoping she will just drive up to pick up her diet Dr. Pepper!!!
Oh Bonnie!!!!!

I am all packed up and very ready for this excursion.
I bought a Tutto sewing machine trolley last year. I have never even tried it before. I love it. It rolls easily even with it all packed up as you can see in the two pictures following:

So it will be just one trip from my truck to the sewing room at the Manchester college Student Union building!!!!!

Here are my pinks all picked out for the pink 2 1/2" strip swap this month. They are now all washed, pressed, cut and packaged for the swap. This color is possibly my favorite swap color.
WHOOHOOO!!!
XOXOXOXO Subee

My Quilt Guild's Mystery

I am also working on another Mystery quilt being run by a member of my quilt guild.
The designer is Marti Mitchell who also has all those blunt cornered templates. I happened to have the "Peaky and Spike" templates and those were needed for another part of this mystery. I know I bought them many many years ago because of a TV quilt show I had watched.

 I was so reluctant to even start this mystery because it did look very complicated. And also I wanted to devote all my sewing time to Our Bonnie's Orca Bay Mystery. But that one is done now so.....

 The best way to overcome reluctance is to use fabric you LOVE! I have been saving these salmon pink and brown fabrics for my next life I guess. So I dived in and I am loving the piecing experience.

 But these blocks are so big...15 1/2"!!! Compared to what I usually sew on these feel like tanks. But what was really neat (and I do not have a separate picture of them) is that there are "Birds in the Air" units in this block.
My mind is thinking...ok I have the 100 border units done in pinks for my second Orca Bay quilt. And I still have a bagillion more HST in pinks. I could make some of these larger blocks in my more favorite size! And maybe the Orca Bay in pink/gray will actually become a different quilt but using Our Bonnie's units. I was also thinking that I could do two borders of those cute units. I am thinking this is how Our Bonnie Hunter works. She makes lots of units and when she gets a decent amount she designs a quilt with them. There is a method to her madness!!!

So this is clue#3 that I received last night. Fun little units and the block is a variation of a Corn and Beans block. Marti Mitchell calls it a Bean Counter Star. OK...cute name.

Still saving my dog ears...took a container full of sewn units last night to the meeting and got all the ears trimmed with plenty of time leftover for visiting. And of course laughed at for saving them.

None of these pinks made it into my Scrap User System. I do not want to not have enough for this quilt if I go harvesting. I still have lots of variety going on. And when this one gets done I will then work them into my Scrap User System.

Pinks found...well they were NOT lost...really!

I am a pink color lover. To me it is the most perfect color in the world. And I also wear a lot of pink. Pink looks good with my gray hair and blue eyes. I seem to sew with the colors I do wear.

How about you all?

 These HST were saved from two pink Smokey Mountain Star quilts I had made in 2009. I double sewed the corner triangles and saved them all. I dated the container...11-26-2009!!!!

I so enjoyed making those "Birds in the Air" border units from Our Bonnie Hunter's Orca Bay Mystery. I knew I had these lovely units and set about cutting HST to add to these pinks!

 I cannot believe how fast these units are made. I do not want to make too many because I have lots more fabric to cut. I want a good variety in these.

 I went through and straightened my drawers of strips into color groups as Our Bonnie did hers. I have lots of pink 2 1/2" strips....

 More found units. But these are not pressed and trimmed yet. But they are pinks and creams too! But I do not remember what quilt I made that these units were sewn from.

 I dragged all this from under the quilt frame. These have not seen the light of day for a very long time.

 I was in a pink 2 1/2" swap last year. I found them! They have not been rotated into my cut HST yet. They also need a good pressing before I cut. I plan on cutting a square from each one...then using the Easy Angle ruler I will cut HST in the 2 1/2" size...not needed right now but why not cut them now as opposed to later??
Then I will cut a pair of 2" HST from them too. I did a few to see if the system was workable...of course it is.
But DH gets lonely when I am in the cutting room. And the cats complain at the door. My cats do not like closed doors. They must think they are missing something.

Leftovers from GD's birthday quilt last year. All pinks...but nothing is precut in this container. I will set it aside and get in there later.

 I have been very lucky in ways I can store my fabrics. My dear departed father-in-law gifted me with these two LARGE metal pattern drawer units. They are the kind that hold patterns in stores.
Did I want them???
Of course...
I rearranged the whole room in order to get them in.
They take up a lot of room but they also hold so much.

So this is the pink drawer. Plus I have a set of Fossile Fern FQ's there in the center. I must use them for something soon. They keep calling to me "Use me!" everytime I open this drawer.

 Here are some grays and pink 2" HST cut. Yes, more containers. These hold this 2" size so nicely and they also then fit inside a larger plastic container.

 Lots more HST not pressed or trimmed. Looks like a good TV watching project.

 I also store pressed FQ's on hangers. This is so handy and easy to harvest fabric strips from them without removing the hanger at all.

 Pretty pinks!

 See? Hanger is still on. There are 25 fabrics on this hanger. I just cut 12 or 13 layers at a time.

 I know that sounds like a deep layer. But with a fresh blade and good control of the rulers I always do many layers at a time.

 Remember when Our Bonnie posted making all that red string Piano Key Border? I had to try it. So I did just a couple pages and look what I acheived in just sampling that technique! Only a sample...

I like these little hinged boxes. They are deep and hold 2" units. They also fit inside larger plastic containers with ease.
I know, containers in containers in containers in containers...remember?... OCD me!
I should really start buying stock in plastic containers!