Sunday, January 24, 2016

On A Mission

 About half way through last year, I discovered Buttermilk Basin's wool felt mystery quilt. Of course I could not resist. I quickly got the first three blocks done and then I stalled. Well, this year they are also doing a mystery wool felt quilt and the theme is Let It Snow. I want to dive right in, but I won't let myself start that one until I have the 2015 top together. Here is a link to the information:

I whipped up the candy cane block last night while I watched my favorite 48 Hours. Isn't it adorable? This week I have been on a mission to get my blocks done--and it has worked! Some nights I even got two blocks made.
 I think I am going to remove the wool felt "buttons" and replace them with real ones.
 The design for this block showed a cat, but we are a dog household--so I changed it. I made a brown lab looking dog in honor of our sweet Dora who died back in May.
 I love the sweet blossom with the strawberry.
 Anyone up for a slice of watermelon?
 Corn, pumpkins, and crows are plentiful in our town during the fall.
 I think this is my favorite--a blue canning jar with a cheerful sunflower!
 There needs to be a jack o' lantern for Halloween. I have my last block all prepped to stitch during football this afternoon for Slow Sunday Stitching:
 Friday night was Friday Night Sew In (FNSI) for January 2016. I cut, marked, and sewed all my half square triangles that are the sashing between all the wool felt mystery blocks--there are 239 and they will finish at an inch. As soon as I finish my last block, I will be ready to sew them together. Here is the link to see what other people worked on for FNSI:
My scrap bins are overflowing, so I decided to join Carole and her Scrap Dance Tango Mystery. Here are the details:
https://frommycarolinahome.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/scrap-dance-tango-mystery-quilt-2016/
 She has us cutting all of our fabrics first. Here are 315 squares for half square triangles. I have been digging in my neutral scrap bin and stash for all my background squares which I hope to cut today. At this time, I am planning on the lap size version, but if I love the design I may switch to a king size for our bed. Making a quilt for our bed is one of my goals for 2016. Have a great week!

29 comments:

  1. YAY...GO TANYA GO!!!GO TANYA GO!!!

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  2. YAY...GO TANYA GO!!!GO TANYA GO!!!

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  3. Wow these wool blocks are ALL adorable! I too love the canning jar one but they are all cute as can be.

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  4. Love all your wool felt blocks! They must be fun to stitch!

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  5. I really like those wool blocks from Buttermilk Basin. Love me some BB designs...so much fun.

    You are on a roll...as usual. Keep up the good work...it is inspiring.

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  6. You are busting out those wool samplers!! They look great! I too am making a quilt for our master....once I finish my snowmen. :) :) Have a great week! PS: I saw that Let It Snow too....don't know if I'm doing it...as my design wall is full of WIP and I'm having fun with the Lri HOlt Bloom sew a long.

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  7. You made a lot of progress on last year's freebies from Buttermilk Basin. I don't like to eat candy canes but I do think it makes a very attractive block design. You did well!

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  8. These blocks are so cute and I love the way you personalized them to work for you. The HST blocks are so tiny and should look great as sashing.

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  9. Wonderful wool blocks! Glad you will be quilting along with Scrap Dance Tango! Thank you for mentioning it on your blog!

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  10. You are making great progress on your wool blocks! The Let it snow project is very tempting!

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  11. I love those adorable wool blocks. You always have so many inspiring projects in the works. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!

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  12. Love the wool appliqué. I would like to try that, but I don't need another addiction. You can totally make yourself a bed quilt this year. I am hoping to quilt the top I have for my own bed!

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  13. Good for you getting all those half square triangles sewn! That was a big bit of work!

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  14. Wow!! When you are on a roll you sure are on a roll!!! Lots of great blocks there and they are all gorgeous!! Well done! Those half square triangles are tiny!! And there are so many of them!!

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  15. hello Tanya... love to see your blocks, wow you've made great progress with all the felt stitching!
    I love watching 48 Hours too, but I think the eps we get in Australia are older ones...

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  16. You GO girl!!! You're an inspiration! I love those blocks - so sweet and such unique designs :*). It really helps to have incentive spurring us on, doesn't it? With quilter's, all the inspiration we usually need is a beautiful piece of fabric or the next project LOL!!!

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  17. Oh you tempt me.... again!!!
    Who doesn't want to sew a totally scrappy quilt?!?

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  18. I too am working on last year's bom for Buttermilk basin--though I think you are ahead of me so far in the stitching of them--all my blocks are prepped though--I did change a couple of the location of the blocks and have taken out the sewing block and added a rabbit block instead--
    keep up with the stitching--pretty soon we will be able to do this years bom!!!
    love and laughter, di

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  19. Wow, so many projects! Those wool blocks are adorable. I've never worked with wool but it is on my list of things to try someday. I can't believe the sashing is made of such tiny HST's! You go girl! :) Thanks for sharing on MCM.

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  20. WOW... when you decide to finish blocks you finish blocks! And they are all so sweet!

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  21. Wow, you really are determined to finish last year's before you go on!!The blocks look great.

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  22. The wool blocks are very cute. Good luck getting that quilt all together so you can play with the new mystery.

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  23. Let's hear it for an upcoming finish! However, I'm not sure I'm going to thank you for sharing the new bom. I don't think I really need a new project but darn, the first one is so cute!

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  24. Oh I really admire your restraint Tanya, haha!!! I think my favourite block is the wee doggy - it's wonderful to be able to make a quilt that's so much more personal. And I totally agree - real buttons would be great fun! Looking really good :)

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  25. Holy cow, you are a woman on a mission, indeed! Go, go, go! (Everything looks fabulous, BTW!)

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  26. Thanks for linking up your Scrap Dance Tango progress!!

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  27. Great blocks! Love the sewing themed one the best. We are also a dog family. Sorry about your Dora, but, I love the change to the block.

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  28. Your blocks are fabulous! What a great quilt it will be! Great idea to start that scrappy quilt. I looked at her first scrappy and it was gorgeous, so presume the second will be gorgeous too! Yay you for jumping in!

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