meanwhile...2 years later...

After I dug around in my 3 boxes of pieces and parts from Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville Easy Street mystery which became a UFO in 2012 I assessed the situation.  I thought I was in fair shape.  I remembered doing the four patches and cutting a lot of triangles.  I had photos of clues complete.  Ok, I can do this...  I went clue by clue to check my progress and to find out where to begin.  So here's where I restarted.  

Everything organized and labeled

And this is clue #3.

And, I am almost finished with recreating the list four patches.  Yay!

Colors on photos for Easy Street Clues

It is getting ready to rain here in sunny Florida and my photos are looking a little weird.  I tried to adjust the color in my photo software but the blues look green.  In "real" life they look more like the paint chip samples Bonnie suggested for Easy Street Mystery.  I'm pretty sure the actual quilt will look just fine...I hope.

Slip....slipping away...time that is.

I have too many projects in the works.  I'm getting behind and I need to focus on Christmas sewing.  I did cut all the parts for Easy Street, Clue 3.  I put the pieces together to see what I thought about the colors...well, my turquoise seems a bit "jade" to my eye so I'm  going to put a few together soon.  I might need a different turquoise options.  These two are from my stash and I have another two that are slightly different but probably not enough to complete this mystery.

Here's a pic of my Clue 3 cut fabric.

I have high hopes for getting caught up before the next clue but we head north to PA for Christmas and I won't have a moment to sew until the end of the month.  Ahhh, I'll be itching to sew when we return.

Here is a link to Easy Street Mystery by Bonnie Hunter (Quiltville Blog), Clue 3.  There's still time to begin.  Quiltville Blog, Bonnie Hunter, Easy Street Mystery, Clue 3

Four and more...Easy Street Clue 2

I  have completed about 30 of the flying geese.  I'm using the Companion and Easy rulers.  I can see why some say it is a little tricky to get a goose that doesn't need a little trim.  Practice will help me with that but I could also try one of Bonnie's other methods (shown on her blog today)  I hope to upload a photo of more geese showing the colors as they really are.  This small group is a bit distorted.  Ok, now I can finish up this step and be ready for Clue 3.  What a fun mystery!   

Quiltville Easy Street Mystery Monday Link up

Easy Street mystery Monday Link Up

Next step!

Bonnie posted Clue 2 on Friday and I started right in on more black on white and purple strips.  No matter that I was supposed to be cleaning my sewing area and other household stuff.  I have now cut the sub pieces and have sewn a few flying geese.  I doubt I'll have all done by monday linky..I must get to that aforementioned cleaning.  Picture coming.

So while I wait for the Bonnie Hunter Easy Street Mystery Quilt, Clue 2...

I am trying to come up with a "tree" design for a challenge.  It can be any tree but after I completed a cute pattern from Quiltmaker, Winter Critters, I discovered it was completely the wrong size.  Yikes, I seem to forget to read the details until I've already done the project.  I have found some designs that I would like to "use for inspiration" but do my own interpretation.  I'm thinking simple now that I only have a week or so to get it done for our Quilt Guild Christmas lunch.  I think I should be able to get the idea I have completed by then since it's only to be 80" total linear inches.  We'll see.

Quiltingly,

Susan in FL

I am kind of dim witted sometimes. I didn't even think about the connection between Bonnie Hunter's new mystery quilt, Easy Street and the word "road" in my blog title.  I started setting up this blog in the summer when we were in our RV in Montana for three months.  I got frustrated with it and left it unattended for all these months.  Along comes Bonnie and her mystery and I thought it would be the way to link up for the mystery on Mondays.  So, no pun or anything else was intended but it sort of connects...wordwise...I guess.

My sewing for the first clue of Easy Street was a breeze thanks to Bonnies tips for getting them to match nicely.   I did decide to use a close match to the original design colors.  What the heck.  It's way outside my usual comfort zone but a pleasing combo I think. As usual, I bought way too many fill ins to go with the meager stash I had in these colors.  The neutrals will get used quickly as usual but the brights may be around a while.  Sigh, maybe I'll get motivated to do some kid charity quilts...or a Hospice donation.  So many choices, so little time.

Quiltingly,

Susan in FL

P.S. This is one of my Boston Terriers, Clancy.  He's a Boston Red Sox fan like my dh, lol.