Happy New Year!

I have been looking back at 2018 and thinking about the new year 2019. 

Good Fortune is a good start to the new year! 

My mystery quilt from Bonnie Hunter this year is Good Fortune. I have been working on a slower pace this year and yet I am all caught up with Friday's last clue 6. I think I just have to iron and count clue 3 the little green triangles. I should have enough. You can see I have pink added in, it is my replacement to the Orange.

Clue 6 the neutral strings, done and counted. 

I have linked up to Bonnie's Link up Monday. 

Yesterday, I was at a friends house doing a painting class. Paint your pet! So much fun. The black purple puppy I did back in May, my Gemma. Yesterday, I painted Lex, the Brown Chesapeake Bay. He is no longer with us but in memory. 

I think it turned out Great. I think I showed of his personality perfectly. 

My husband wants to hang up this one for sure. 

Lex playing at Dock Diving. 

Looking back at mine and Gemma's Agility year, I could not be happier with our team. We had a great year even with missing out the first few months to heal a toe. We took out all our title ribbons but 2 more are missing. We got some big titles this year. Hoping our 2019 can be just as much fun. 

Christmas Gift

The first Christmas gift has been given and has a new home. Last week at the Leduc guild we exchanged gifts, it was to be for your table. I made a tea cozy with selvages.  

Here is the other side.

When I had the two halves done and trimmed to size. 

I made the cozy kind of quickly and this is what my floor looked like when I was done. My bag of selvages had exploded. 

I will have to show what I got! soon. 

On Ringo Lake

Last year the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt was On Ringo Lake. I did not work on it much in early 2018. As a waited for the next mystery, I have dug out the old mysteries and took a look at what I needed to do to finish. Well Ringo Lake has a ways to go. So I have worked on it the past couple of weeks. 

I got the Chevron units together and I finished the blocks. I did as I used the current mystery clues as Leaders and enders. I now have all blocks done. There was only 12 blocks done so this took some time. Now I can put on the chevron units and start to think about putting the blocks in to rows. 

Close up of a block. 

Good Fortune is under way! 

If you want to do this years mystery, Check out Bonnie Hunter's Mystery site. Last Friday she released Clue 3 so easy to get started and not be too far behind. 

I have all of clue 1 done the Red four patches. I have a few more to trim up on clue 2 the Blue Triangles. Then I a just starting clue 3 the green chevrons and little triangles. I do have all my fabric cut out for clue 3 and have done the test sewing. I am getting them the correct size so now I can be full steam ahead. 

I just love to use these white flannel pallets to use as I sew. I can see the fabrics laid out in the counted piles. I use the pallets to take my units to the ironing board or the design wall. 

Once I have the units done and counted out I use one of these 13" square boxes. I can see what is in the box. I can take the project with me if I am sewing somewhere else, like mom's house. I use these blocks for most of my quilting blocks. 

Bonnie is also doing a link up for this clue #3.