Bonnie Hunter Good Fortune Mystery

Finally Good Friday came and that meant Bonnie Hunter released the first clue to this years mystery. Here are the colors I’m going with...I took out the blue and added purple. Bonnie’s colors were red, orange, green, blue and a neutral color of cream/white. I’m not a big fan of blue so I really didn’t have enough blues in my stash so I went with purple, which I had plenty of. Lol 😝

Her inspiration colors came from one of her recent trips to China. I’ve started two of her other mysteries but haven’t got very far with them for one reason or another so I’m determined to get this one done because the size is more manageable for me right now. 

The first clue came out on Good Friday but I was super busy longarm quilting then I rode my horse for a few hours on Saturday and worked on memory t shirt quilts all day Sunday... Had to do more longarm quilting Monday that came to a complete stop when my longarm needed some repair. 

Thankfully I had a replacement needle up/needle down button...a mere $3.50 part that can shut the entire operation down in a hurry. So after it was replaced I hurriedly finished a quilt for a client, delivered it less than a few miles down the street and got back home to dinner. I managed to burn 3 fingers yesterday on my Steampress machine while I was fusing stabilizer onto the backs of the tee shirts. So I was running at a slower pace today. Hopefully I can at least get my reds and creams cut and pieced into the four patches needed for clue 1. 

Only need to make a couple hundred or so ...lol 😳😬🤪

4 years later...

Well here I am after what looks to be a 4 year absence...Why you ask? Lord only knows but too much has happened to go back and rehash all that stuff.
 So I’m gonna just start from here.
I’ve been happily longarm quilting, riding my pony, being a Mom to not only my now 25year old son but my now 7yr old Frenchie, his kitty Daisy and my sons rescue cat Moose.

My quilting obsession is in overdrive. 
I’ve got several vintage sewing machines that I’m in love with. Including two treadle machines. One is a 1902 Singer in a beautiful parlor cabinet that all I had to do was dust off.

 She dated July/December 1902 and her cabinet is original. Her decals on the bed are a little silvered but she purrs like a kitty. She is a 27K model. All I really had to do was change her belt.. Hard to believe she’s 116 years old. All I can say is that someone really loved her.  I found her in a little town not too far from here. I paid $75 dollars to a young man and his Mom who said the machine had belonged to her Aunt that had just passed away at 98 years old and that the machine belonged to her Mom. Kinda creepy if you think about it.
Well as long as it doesn’t start treadling by itself I’m good with it residing in my Quilt Cave.

The other treadle is a 1914 Minnesota A....it sews beautiful but I had to completely strip the cabinet. All she needs is a good varnish put back on her. 

Do I look happy or what? 

 This is what it looked like before I stripped her...

She came with the original manual!

Somehow I also acquired a few other machines, including a 1948 15-91 Singer electric sewing machine.. She came in a Queen Ann parlor cabinet. She was gifted by a family friend that had recently lost her 90 something year old mother. The machine was given to her mom for her 1950 Christmas Day wedding...I named her Lady Kathryn after the original owner, Katheryn James. 

The main reason I started back with my blog was to share my quilting .... I recently participated in one of my local quilt guilds biannual quilt show. I was pleasantly surprised when two of my miniature quilts won ribbons. My 11” Double Wedding Ring won 1st place. Then my Mini Tumbling 9 Patch won 3rd place. My boss that owns the quilt shop that I volunteer in won 2nd place in the Miniature group.