Bonnie Hunter and Mystery Quilts

I am a great follower of Bonnie Hunter.  I have been reading her blogs for years now and have tried my hand at many of her quilts on her website Quiltville.
I was able to do her first msytery quilt, loved it and gave it to my grand daughter Lizzy for her birthday that year.

Lizzy loves this quilt.

I have also made the Tabacco Road quilt when Bonnie gave it as a mystery and I have it on my bed right now.

Underneath this quilt is Orange Crush.

I have made many more of Bonnie's quilt along the way. Double Irish Chain is one of my favorites.

I have more quilts of Bonnie's that I  have made but this post is getting a little too much in pictures so I will make another post with Quiltville quilts later.

I love Scrappy!!

What I am Working on Now

I have not been able to work on too many quilting things lately because of work and the basement that we are trying to fininsh.  The basement is coming along very slowly and it is very frustrating.

Today I took off from work so the Electrician could come and finish up our electrical stuff.  He didn't show up at all and did not call.  I also had a tile guy coming over for a bid on the bathroom and kitchen tile and he didn't show either.  I had another tile guy coming at 6:30 tonight but he called and said the weather is too bad and wants to come tomorrow evening.

I worked on a couple of things while I waited.  I needed to make pillow covers for the sofa pillows and I have almost finished them today.  I just need the backing for them now.

I have also made the official start for the baby quilt that I need to have done by January.  This is our 21st grandbaby.  I have made these cute embroidered barn animals into quilts several times. This one will be green and yellow as our daughter is not going to find out what is coming until the baby arrives.

I have all the words done also so I need to clean up the threads on these and trim them to the size I want them to be.  I will be making green and yellow blocks to go with them. I will be backing this quilt with minky and will not put in batting.  I have seen a few of the baby quilts made this way on the web and decided I wanted to try this out.

Well, this will make two posts today but I am not sure when I will be able to post again so I think this is pretty good.

Sunbonnet Sue

When I was very young my Grandmother made me a Sunbonnet Sue quilt.  I loved that quilt so much and I have saved it all these years.  Recently I cut out some of the Sunbonnet Sues and I will be making a little memory quilt from them. The quilt itself has been in pieces for years and so it has been stashed away and never seen.
Just before I got my HQ I made a Sunbonnet Sue top and completed it in 2006.  I had it hanging in my closet for almost 5 years before I quilted it because I was scared to quilt it.  I finally decided that I needed to finish this quilt and so I did. I am so glad that I got brave and finished it.  A finished quilt is better than a masterpiece in my mind.

I have it drapped over my sofa in the front room most of the time and I have a little grand daughter that likes to cuddle up in it all the time.

This is a sweet little quilt and of course it is scrappy.

I love Scrappy!