Hooked on Quilting

I love to do things along with others and I found this cute little doll quilt that started today. It's called Midnight Stars Quiltalong and you can find it here . I have to choose fabrics and will post a pic soon. I have my nine tennis gift boxes to finish by tomorrow night. I did one for practice and I think they are cute, too. I found it here on J Casa Handmade blog. I'm putting yellow fabric on the inside and tennis rackets and balls on the outside. Of course, I'm still working on Ann's New Year's Eve mystery quilt. More pics soon. Then, there's the Roll, Roll, Cotton Boll  of Bonnie Hunter's that I started that I should be working on. Again, I want to get back to my  Rainbow Jane , too.

Okay, did a few of Clue 2 of Ann Smith's New Year's Eve Mystery Quilt. These are 4 1/2" blocks with a 2 1/2" blocks sewn to a corner. So, here's eight and I need to do 96, so I'm just going to move on to Clue 3!!! The suspense is killing me. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

When we moved to Kentucky, as a way to get involved (really, to lose weight and not have to exercise), I got back into tennis. I've been playing every week at a club and then joined their Interclub team. Today was our first doubles match and, surprisingly, my team mate Sarah and I won 2 sets! The Club sends three teams of two at each level (I'm at the bottom 3.0--got to start somewhere!) and our other two teams were defeated. This was our very first match ever, so there were nerves involved, we'll get 'em next time! I still seem to have cement shoes, but I'm chipping away at them. No weight loss either...should I dare hope for thyroid problems like Oprah? On the no-tennis days, I plan to use my new Wii-Fit and see if that helps...yes, I know, you have eat better along with the exercise, but that's not been happening either. I'm still alternating the sewing of the Double Delight and NYE Mystery this evening, but no photos as they are still just DD 3.5 square...

Well, I made one or two more blocks, so I haven't totally fizzled out. Notice the third block from the left on the bottom row hasn't been put together yet, but close. Do you see the pattern yet? Check out the new design wall...needs work, doesn't it?

Well, I did get a couple of each of the blocks finished for the NYE Mystery quilt by Ann Smith. Ann did a great job and I will doing all her mysteries from now on! Thank you, Ann. Here's the two blocks (I've only completed two of each, but others are on their way to completion): I really need to find my camera or take better photos with this one...sorry, they are all blurry (operator error).

Another couple of steps for you to see how things are going. Probably should have just done one post at the end, but, oh, well... Unit E: Unit F: What do you think of the colors--too orange?

Well, I'm still hanging in there, but really need to bake more cookies and a pumpkin pie for tomorrow. Here's Block 1:

Okay, so I'm just a bit behind on the mystery quilt and I thought you might enjoy seeing the next couple of steps as I try to keep up with them. This is Unit C: And this is Unit D: I'm still making more A and B units.

Okay, I've decided to make the Quilt-Talk (Yahoo Group) New Year's Eve mystery quilt. Ann creates a mystery quilt and gives out clues all day today and we are supposed to make it as we go. She gives out pre-cutting and fabric requirements earlier, but, as usual, I didn't get that done, so the hours are going by very, very fast! Here's a few Unit A's: and Unit B's: