Welcome Back and Quiltville Mystery

I know I haven't posted in a while.  I stopped working as a computer technician and took a job in Central New York teaching high school students how to work as computer techs.  It was a major life change... moving 200 miles away and changing my career.

I love the job, I'm closer to my family and I've joined the local quilt guild, so it is good.  I did move away from my boyfriend and we are hopeful he can follow soon.  I haven't been in a "long distance relationship" since my college days!

I don't have a lot of friends here yet, so I decided to jump into the Quiltville mystery.

Bonnie Hunter has started another mystery quilt.  I've completed step one and I'm waiting for step two.  Here are the 50 nine-patch blocks that I sewed to complete the first step.

I you want to join in, the link is here:   http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2017/11/on-ringo-lake-mystery-monday-link-up.html 

Can't wait for the next set of instructions.  I feel like I've made so many decisions this year that it is nice to work on a project where I don't have to decide on a thing... just follow the instructions and trust that it will be a beautiful quilt in the end.  I do love all of the quiltville patterns so I'm not worried!

Enjoy!

Kim

Quilting with a Message

I submitted a quilt to "threads of resistance".  I'm proud to have made one of the 500 different quilts were submitted for the traveling show.

http://threadsofresistance.org/home.html

My quilt is in the woman's rights category:  http://threadsofresistance.org/womensrights.html#11

It uses vintage Sunbonnet Sue blocks.  Here is my statement about the quilt:

Don’t look the other way.

 

Back in the day, if a quilter didn’t agree, she would turn one of the Sunbonnet Sue figures on her quilt to face the other way. We can’t turn our back on our problems now. We have to take off our bonnets, put on our “pussy hats” and let our feelings be known. www.Sunbonnetsue.com