New Mystery Quilt Started

I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving.  We had a nice dinner - turkey and ham and all the trimmings.  As usual, I had all the work to do myself.  I guess my family will never get the idea that I'd like to be invited somewhere else!  We didn't do any shopping afterwards.  I just didn't need anything bad enough to brave the crowds.  I would rather pay a little more and save Thanksgiving for family.  Besides, I don't have any idea what to get for anyone for Christmas, and I didn't need a new TV set or computer or anything that they put on sale for Black Friday.  I worked from 8-4 on Friday and stayed home all day today.

My favorite quilt designer, Bonnie Hunter, posted the first clue to her new mystery quilt on Friday morning.  She said to make 192 four-patches using the constant fabric (the only one that is not scrappy in this quilt) and the black-on white prints (background fabrics).  I guess I got a little overenthusiastic about it - I made 14 extra four-patches.  I love the colors together so I will save those extra ones to add to a quilt in the future, once I see how much of the orange/yellow print I have left.  I actually bought an extra half-yard of this fabric (most of the rest of the fabrics came out of my stash except for a few fat quarters I bought at JoAnn Fabrics yesterday).  The next clue will be posted next Friday morning so I am ready a little early.  In the meantime I will work on my Wild Child quilt that I started recently.  I am still putting the components of the blocks together so there is still plenty of work to do on it.

Richard and I put up the outside Christmas lights last weekend while it was still warm outside, but we didn't turn them on until Thanksgiving night.  Today I started moving furniture in the living room and Richard set up the Christmas tree for me.  We put up the four-foot prelit tree this year.  I put some gold garland on it and my favorite ornaments (sadly, had to throw a few broken ones away).  I love the Christmas lights and the electric fireplace.  Too bad there are no presents under the tree.  I guess I had better get busy and figure out what everyone wants for Christmas this year.