A Change

Now Truthfully, I didn't care for the red that I selected for the Mystery Quilt.  It just wasn't right so I went fabric shopping on Friday and found the single bolt of fabric that would work.  Who knew green could be such a picky color to match?  As a blend of yellow and blue, it seems this season it is much more popular to blend green with extra yellow, instead of the extra blue this quilt needs.

I also selected the main background fabric for my Lone Star Quilt, it is a white on white paisley, which I didn't expect to like, yet it works beautifully.  I'm still thinking of what color the rays might be.

Christmas Quilt-a-Long Year 3 Evening

Fabric for Christmas Mystery Quilt

Okay I didn't go back to bed like I was supposed to.  Hopefully my leg wont punish me over the lack of rest.  Instead I combed through my fabric and look what I combination I came up with? Now last year my Christmas Quilt-a-long Quilt was the opposite of Christmasy, but this year, I'm changing that up - full circle.

The ornament print is clearly my background fabric, the white my light, the blue my medium and the red, the one I missed completely when reading through the list the first time, the dark.  So now I really am going to go rest.  Take care and I'll be looking forward to seeing you again next month.

Christmas Quilt-a-Long Year Three January

Good Afternoon everyone.  I hope everyone has been enjoying Hazel's hosting for the first month of the Third Annual Christmas-Quilt-a-long, I'm sure she's been wonderful so far.  I'm only just now checking in and only to grab my Kindle charging wire and head back to bed.  Last Thursday I trotted all over town and really out did myself.  So while my leg is feeling better today I know any extra little effort will have me in bed for another couple of days, so I figured it was best just to relax and take it easy today.  I hope our hostess wont mind to much that I'm sidelined.

Have you had any luck selecting your fabric yet?  I haven't even looked.  I'll have to go through what I have an see what works well together.  The brown and teal swirl fabric is calling me for the dark fabric, but I will likely be using that a border in the Lone Star Quilt, so I know it's hands off that one.  I'm looking forward to digging through and seeing what there is.  You can bet I'll be all caught up with all of my fabrics cut by this time next month when we meet up with Joanna of Needle, Thread, Happiness

Foto Finish: Doors aka Quilter's Eyes

Entry Doors to Gaylord Palms Resort

Oh I adore Barbara of Cat Patches, for her theme today.  It's doors.  Digging through my pictures I found these. These are the entry doors to the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando.  Aren't they amazing?  This was the third and final hotel DH and I visited while on our honeymoon and we really loved our stay there in 2003.  We enjoyed our dinner at Villa de Flora that we ate there more than once and when these pictures were taken I was happily dragging my sister, a friend, and DD off to enjoy some of their food which is wonderfully seasonal and varies by day and the fruits (and veggies) of the season.  It was during that visit that my sister and I discovered our love for Sangria but that is a story for another day.  Besides trust me when I say the door and the Sangria is only the beginning of the wonder of this beautiful resort.  After all it is built with a 4.5 acre glass atrium in it's center.  Surely that means we can say it's always Florida weather somewhere in Florida.

Detail within door

It is so charming to see these pictures again, because while I like to reminisce I had completely forgotten about the beautiful Mariner's Compass set into the wood flooring within the center of the door.  Can you see it now?  Just think, I've grown Quilter's Eyes!

Pre-Kickoff Christmas Quilt-a-long Year 3

It's that time of year again.  It's time to kick off the third annual Christmas Quilt-a-long.  This year we will be making a Mystery quilt and instead of leaving all of the hosting to Sue, some of the veterans of last year's Christmas Quilt-a-long will each host their own month.  Now just in case you were wondering, I'm Miss October! Miss February is Hazel of Hazel's Quilts, so she will be kicking off the quilt-a-long nice and early tomorrow morning.  She will have plenty of great treats laid out to enjoy as well as a Mr. Linky for anyone looking to sign up.

As for the Mystery Quilt, it is 6 installments with a finished size of 42" x 60" after the first 6 installments, we'll be turned loose for quilting with the final reveal of the quilts in December.  Boy December, I can hardly wrap my brain around it being February already.  Hazel will have the first installment which includes fabric requirements as well as the cutting directions.  I'll look forward to seeing you there after I wake up.