A Messy House is a Sign of a Happy Quilter: Mayhem Mystery

Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Ready for Merry Mayhem's 2014 One Day Mystery.

Internet is very intermittent here, so when I haven't been able to blog or FB I have been cutting and sewing.
I'm all ready for the one day mystery - which starts less than two hours - but that will be 1am, and I had better not wake the campers next door.

Everything is cut and prepared, all I need to do is read the first clue and start.
I am going to set the camp table up before I go to bed so when I awake in the morning I can get straight to it.

My 6" X 12" ruler is the only ruler I keep in the van, but as I was also doing Bonnie's Celtic Solstice, I had brought along my triangle ruler, so that came in very handy when I had to cut 6 7/8" squares.

As you can see I'm using pinks as my lights and purples and teals as my darks - SURPRISE SURPRISE!

All the squares - large and small all ready.

This is my van sewing machine. Cost me $100 about 25 years ago.

Cost me $125 to get serviced last year.

Works so well and is great to travel with.

The last step was sewing half square triangles, which I was sewing above.

All the pieces ready to go go go....

Happy Sewing and Happy New Year
Allison

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Mayhem Mystery quilt top finished

Wow, it's been a busy week. Stayed up until 2am on 2 January, to start the Mayhem Mystery, only to be so tired I had to go to bed before starting. Woke up at 4am and started sewing all the strips together - at 7am I had to pack up all my sewing to go on vacation in the caravan! That was Monday. Tuesday I had the chance to do little more, so I sewed all the squares together. That took what seemed like hours and hours. Wednesday we did a day trip to Maclean - The Scottish Town in Australia, so no sewing. Today I was determine to finish the top and I did.

I am very happy with the way it turned out. I did change the long borders by adding a row of three squares in the center.