Celtic Solstice Mystery

Celtic Solstice Mystery

Easy Street at the Long Arm Quilter

Paint Chips have been picked up

Fabric selections pulled

Ready to roll on Black Friday.

I have all my fabric stacked, but am still debating if I should pick my own color line.  Am falling in love with grays, yellows, reds, off white, and blacks.  

I have only seen one person mention that they were going with Christmas Colors.  

If you are going to your own colors please post.  Thanks.

Easy Street Is Finally Done

I have not been blogging for some time now, I am looking to change this.
Easy Street has been done now for a while, No it is not quilted yet, but I am looking to get it done in the very near future.

 So here she is, I kept the boarder simple, I seen some suggestions for more complex boarders but opt for  a simple trim boarder that accented ES pattern colors.

 This is going to be used in the bedroom the kid have named the Purple Palace.  The have been so many color variation of ES, but I did not have the confidence to change it up.  I once did a retreat where we had a mystery, and the colors I chose were not agreeable to the pattern design.  It was a disappointment because you work just as hard on an ugly quilt as you do a pretty one!

The wind was blowing and the sun was out, I happened to catch the underside of ES and captured this view.  Looks like Stained Glass.
I want to leave you with one last pic.  We live in the county and we were out and seen this reflection coming from the east.....Now the Sun Sets in the West... what are these light beams coming from?

A Google search solved this mystery.  Anticrepuscular rays are similar to  crepuscular rays,  but seen opposite the sun in the sky. Anti-crepuscular rays are near-parallel, but appear to converge at the  anti solar point because of linear perspective. Anti-crepuscular rays are most frequently visible near sunrise or sunset.

Easy Street Mystery Revealed

Well bloggers I've been away..."missing in action."   We had company here over the holidays.  Twelve house guest, 2 dogs, and 5 cats.  WOW!!

So due the holiday celebration, I was not able to continue to keep up with weekly posts or, sew on my Bonnie Hunter Easy Street  mystery (ES).  Click here   Well the new year is here, all the celebration is over and I am trying to catch up.  If you've been surfing the blogs you may have noticed some quilters are already done sewing their quilt top,in fact,  I even seen one ES quilt that was quilted already.   (I finally got my RRCB quilted from Bonnie's mystery 2 years ago, talk about being behind.)

So here are a few pic's of my progress.  It is my intention to complete my ES by the end of January 2013.  And speaking of celebration, when I picked up my RRCB at the quilter/shop there was a free box.......look what came home with me.

I think there is 7 to 8 yard of good quality fabric here.  I may use some of this as a pieced back for ES.  

                        
                                                 This is what is up on my design wall.

Below is what I am using for leaders and enders.  I have 261 bow-ties so far.  I will continue until I am out of the cheddar and let the quilt tell me how big it will be.
                                                   
                                    

                                         Cleaning out whatever scraps I have around.
                                         And this is what I have left to sew together.