Wow!  What a December!  

We kicked off the Christmas season with a road trip to Fort Worth for my daughter's audition with the Fort Worth Opera.  We have yet to hear from them.

But, we loved the afternoon & evening we spent downtown...

She's feeling a bit giddy here after her audition has completed.  

While we were off galivanting across Texas, my son up and moved to Hawaii (ok, so he has been planning to do so for about a year).  He is working on becoming a Helicopter pilot and the school there is one of the best and one of the FEW that work with federal student loans.  He is having a marvelous adventure and meeting students from all over the world!  He plans on being home by Christmas next year!  

He sends me awful pictures like the one above...

I did finally manage to get some Christmas decorations up about a week before Christmas.  Usually they go up the day after Thanksgiving around here.  

And, I finally got to spend some time sewing the last couple of days.  Yes, and eating too.   Even got a workout in this morning, the first in almost a month.  

Yes, this is the Bonnie Hunter Mystery.  I am on step number 5, having skipped number 4 since we don't really need it yet.  Want to get these blocks put together so I feel I have accomplished something.  I also want to see what those loose triangles are going to be used for.  I prefer to use the half square triangle method when I can.  Loose triangles are so hard to work with.  

Trying to get organized for the new year this morning.  The to do list just keeps getting longer so I am going to throw in the towel, go shower, and start sewing.  Oh, yeah, an hour of cleaning is on my list too.  Happy End of 2022 to all!

Mystery started

 I told myself I was not going to start Bonnie's Mystery this year.  I never finish them.  I love Bonnie!  I love her quilts!  but I only have one finished Bonnie pattern and it was started in a workshop with her and took years.  I have two mysteries I started of hers and they are still in pieces but here I am- doing it AGAIN.  

I got this first clue all done in one day though, and just in time for tomorrow's clue release.  I may not do as well next week as I will be out of town for most of the week.  

Here are my chosen colors.  I am only using my stash and I do not have much orange so I am going to go with YELLOW I think...

Not much variety.  My purple is going to be all out of that solid.  Trying to use my stash before I die, ya know...

I will have to see if I am still happy with the yellow after the first yellow (orange) clues release. 

Funny story- while I was making these, I was also baking cookies.  I was pinning on the final row of the 9 patches and was 12 short.  So I ran upstairs to quickly sew another set of finishing rows.  When I came back down, I couldn't find my 12 unfinished 9 patches anywhere.  Looked back upstairs, looked in the kitchen...Found them in the dog's mouth.  He's lucky that no dissection was required to find them all.   

  

I did get this lovely Christmas quilt on the wall last week.  

I am so happy with how the quilting came out.  Always hard to decide how to quilt a panel.  

My robot hadn't been used in a long time and it threatened to crash on me a couple of times but never did.  I believe it was certainly divine intervention preventing the crash.  

Maybe I will find some more to help me get dinner ready before I have to head off to choir practice.  

Happy December!