Starting the New Year Running

Happily I have recovered from that nasty cold/flu

thing that had been getting people!

I found my way back into my sewing room after

putting away holiday decorations...

which also led to cleaning out the garage!

I belong to the Bees Knees Quilting Bee...

and right at Christmas I got my last block 

returned to me for me project!

So, of course I was anxious to put the quilt top 

together!

Now it's my first finish for 2018!!!

And while I was at it...

this was another Bees Knees project from the year before.

It needed a whole extra row added... so I decided to 

get this one done too!

It was a quilt that I saw on Red Pepper Quilts

and used her pattern for my "group quilt".

I love seeing what she makes... it's always some

scrappy goodness! 

There is a funny story related to this project.

I had been working on around the holidays.

I was part of the Cake Mix Sew Along with Fat Quarter Shop.

(this is a great book by the way).

I got my paper tablet for my project and the fabrics...

and started in on my mission.

But much later I realized that 

they had never sent me the book...

and THEN I realized that

they sent me the wrong tablet of "cake mix" papers for the

project I was working on! 

These things happen!

So I quickly bought another Cake Mix tablet... and some batik 

fabrics and started over.

But with my deadline approaching...

I was getting nervous.

There were a couple more snafooz...

But all is well that ends well, right?! This was ready to go 

mid November.

Now I am back to making my original plan 

for the Cake Mix Book!

Have a good weekend!