A finish and a start............

The past 10 days have been out of the ordinary, haven't gotten hardly any sewing done whatsoever till today. Things are back to normal. (But not for long) So now that hubby is back at work, and I wasn't toting a box of tissues around with me, I got me some sewing done. First off the list...........I finished Myra's mystery quilt! Well the top of it is done.

The colors look a little muted in this pic. I did mine controlled scrappy. Thanks for hosting a wonderful mystery Myra, I love this quilt!!!

So now that I was able to get that one finished, now I can move on to Bonnie's Orca Bay mystery! So first up is to make a final decision on colors.............this is what I ended up with.

I am substituting turquoise for her red, purple for her blue, black is black, and pink is my neutral. This quilt is going to be LOUD and in your face! yippee!!!!!!!
So step one..........

Since I am not yet a Slash and Stash Queen like Bonnie, (that is a complement) I had to cut all my strips from my scrap baskets. I am glad to have them at least sorted by color, I think I finally got all the bags and baskets done since last year when I started. I will slowly start sorting them by size, and leave them done by color for pieces to be used in strings. So here is a pile sitting waiting to be ironed, then cut and sewn back together.
Then there is step two already out there................

These are the few I got done today before I start cutting all those black and pink strips out. Tomorrow is another day.

Now I am going to sit in front of the television for a few and work on a project that I am making for my Secret Santa, Shhhhhhhh I can give you a sneak peak................

They have other fabric fused to the back and they are starched pretty heavily, now I need to cut them up a bit, and then hand stitch them a bit too................
I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays, and made it home safe and sound. Till next weekend.......