Hannah and Tori Sew Christmas

It was a busy weekend with a Christmas party and Christmas sewing. Tori made a Christmas Pot Holder and Hannah made a Christmas Table Topper!

2012 Rainbow Challenge Pot Holders

Eleven months, eleven pretty, colorful pot holders/hot pads for Christmas gifts : )
To see what others have been working on during this year's rainbow scrap challenge, go here.

I added this link Saturday morning. A beautiful Hot Pad tutorial was posted on the Moda Bake Shop this morning. I can't wait to make one from my colorful scraps!

Bee In My Bonnet Row Along, Row 7

Instructions were to cut sixteen 3" squares in half for the leaves. Since I'm using my scraps for this challenge, I cut thirty-two 1 1/2" x 3" pieces from scraps. Actually found some lady bug fabrics I was able to fussy cut.
To see what others have made during this Row Along Challenge, go here.

An Evening With Bonnie Hunter

Difficult to believe, but I left my camera on the dresser! So sadly ... no pictures of me and Bonnie Hunter with her beautiful quilts. Happily she was selling personalized signed copies of her pattern books and I was able to buy two.
I thoroughly enjoyed Bonnie's trunk show and her talk about fabrics, quilts, her travels, her books, her current Mystery Quilt Easy Street and her vintage sewing machines. It was a wonderful evening!
You can find Bonnie's blog here.

Easy Street Part 1

Bonnie Hunter posted instructions for her new mystery quilt, Easy Street, Friday morning. Pictured are some of the 192 four-patch blocks needed to complete Part 1. Love the black, white and gray going on in these 3 1/2" blocks. I think Part 2 will be posted Friday : )

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 10 1/2" Blocks Quilt Top

I had 33 rainbow blocks and needed two more to make a quilt top with 5 blocks across and 7 blocks down. Because the smallest blocks were 10 1/2" squares, I trimmed the larger ones a little so they would all play nicely together. All my blocks were cut and pieced from 2 1/2" strips from scraps and stash. The blocks were sashed with 2" strips.
The inner border was made with 2 1/2" strips of black on white fabric and the outer border was made with 4 1/2" strips of white on black fabric. The quilt top finished at 63"x 83". This quilt top makes me smile : )
To see what others are making with their black, white and gray scraps, go here Saturday morning.
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Happy Thanksgiving!

I love turkey and plan to celebrate Thanksgiving today as well as Sunday : )
I took a break from working with my rainbow scrap challenge blocks to work on a mini quilt top. Konda Luckau chose the 18"x 18" Mini Flower Garden pattern from her Simply Charming Minis book for our Mini Quilt Along. I chose a Kapalua Batik charm pack by Moda to make mine. To see what other's are making during this mini quilt along, go here.