Meeting Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville!

Yesterday was tatting Tuesday and quilt guild night but I cancelled both.  I had the good fortune of going to see/meet Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com.  What a treat!  Five of us hopped into Helen's van and drove over to the big town of Keller, Tx. We went to the Bear Creek Quilt Guild meeting last night. ( Bear Creek Quilt Guild was so nice to us too!  What a wonderful guild.  If you get a chance, go see that guild.  They are a small but very busy guild.  Their members do alot of nice quilts. They brought quilts that they had done from Bonnie's website and showed them last night.  It was so much fun to see these too.)  Bonnie was the speaker for the night and she did a great trunk show too.  What a treat!!! I have been following Bonnie for as long as I can remember and I've made several quilts from her website.  I now have all of her books. I just got her newest book last night!  She was so much fun to listen to and see her and her wonderful quilts in person.  It was a fun night but I am exhausted today.  I did take a few pictures and I'll see if any of those turned out...I didn't get home until late last night so I'll check when I get home tonight after my knitting class. I wanted to take a class from her while she's here but there's no way I can take off for that...Boo hoo hoo..Oh well, at least I was able to get to meet her and laugh and have a good time with my buddies too.

Orange Crush Mystery

Yesterday was the beginning day for the new mystery from Bonnie at Quiltville.com. I was not able to start sewing last night but will start it tonight. All the girls on the blog site have started step 1 and are finishing up already....Ahhhhhh, I can already feel my blood pressure rising! Bonnie has some other commitments and we will have two weeks to finish step 1 so that will really help me get it done and hopefully stay caught up. I love her website and her mysteries. Her patterns are always correct and well planned out. Here's a link to this mystery: Orange Crush Mystery . Bonnie's site is http://www.quiltville.com/. Check it out. It has good patterns as well as tips and tricks to help you on your quilting journey.

I haven't completely decided on my four main colors yet but am definitely using orange and red. I have to decide on my other two colors pretty quick now....I will post a picture when I decide -and progress along the way.

I only have two more weeks until I go to retreat and I hope to get alot of my other projects under control at retreat. I'm already making a list of things to take with me to work on...3 days of sewing! Oh boy, can't wait....