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Way back in July I started the Morewood Mystery Quilt with Cheryl of Meadow Mist Designs. I have participated in her mystery quilts in the past and love the pace of the instructions. I've mostly kept up with the monthly schedule.

I decided on this blue, white, and silver Hanukkah palette, choosing the royal blue print as my background. I initially planned for both white and silver prints to be combined for position in the quilt, but was able to cut all the pieces from the dots.

My 30 petal units are done from November's instructions.

These little 4-patch units are from October.

These are my HSTs from September. I still need to finish 30 HSTs from November... then I can get started on December's instructions (which start with more HSTs). :-)

Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah. Chag sameach!

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We are four weeks into Quilting the Countdown 100 day project. There are 71 days left until QuiltCon. I'm spending at least 15 minutes a day working on my Patchwork City blocks.

I finished 4 blocks this week, bringing me to 38 out of 75 blocks complete, which tips me past halfway for block construction! The finished blocks shown feature Kona Clover and Punch.

I've cut the next six blocks featuring Kona Coral and Kona Bluegrass. I like to keep all my pieces in the book since I'll be sewing them up ASAP and not taking them anywhere.

After cutting out all my pieces, I also folded this pile of fabric to get reorganized.

Starting tomorrow I get to sew sew sew to get these blocks together! Only one of the blocks has fiddly template pieces, so I hope to get all 6 blocks finished this week.

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I'm really trying not to start new projects, but I am making a special mini quilt that is underway. I'll tell you more about why I'm making it when I finish it later this month, but here's a peek at what I'm up to. I ordered Kona Corsage, Rose, and Celadon to partner with Yarrow, Windsor, and the unknown dark green. I also bought my first yard of Kona Snow for this project as it will be the background. This evening I cut out everything except for the background.

Here's the sketch for my plan. (Graph paper is one of my favorite design tools!)

I'm excited to get these little bits sewn together, but first I need to cut out a lot of background fabric!