Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Orca Bay update.. or how I spent my New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve has never been a party night for me, unlike a lot of people.  As a teenager, I babysat as many kids as I could because it was good money.  As a young married woman, we hosted a party the first year we were married (2 weeks after the wedding) and we had a new baby the following year, so no parties after that.  Once I got divorced, parties were out of the question (and the budget).  As the kids got older, I would invite some single (or want-to-be single) girlfriends over to scrapbook but now that the kids are grown and married, I'm back to babysitting!!  Life is truly a circle!


Zoey at midnite

Although Zoey's mom and dad didn't have big plans, they did invite 2 couples over to play games and cards, so I offered to take Zoey overnight so they could have a sleep-in.  Funny thing is, she always sleeps in at my house and never wakes up before 7:45 (at home, she wakes up about 6:30).  My daughter keeps asking for my secret, but I don't what it is - just that both my grandkids have always slept well here.

After putting my little sweetie to bed at 7 p.m., I heading to my sewing room for some Orca Bay sewing. I made good headway on those red strings and created a nice mess.


 Before I went upstairs to check on Zoey and welcome her into the New Year with a kiss (my secret tradition with every child I've been with on this special evening), I played with my Orca Bay pieces. 


I did have the white block surrounded in the same way, but....



Imagine my surprise when I checked my blog list at 12:03 a.m. my time.  Bonnie had surprised everyone with an early reveal!  I was so close on my guess - if only I had figured how those white blocks fit in!


So I played some more!  My design wall is too small to hold the full width but I'm liking it!  My goal is the top put together by the next Monday link-up.  Wish me luck!

3 comments:

  1. Terri, your quilt top in-progress looks beautiful. You were really close to guessing how the blocks would go together - I am terrible at that. I never know until the big reveal what the top will look like with all the little pieces.

    I do wish you the best of luck in finishing your top for the Monday link-up as I am in the same boat.

    Also, I wanted to say thank you for your comment on my blog. I still consider myself a new quilter/blogger and your comment made my day.

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  2. You made LOTS of progress on New Year's. The quilt is looking amazing! Isn't funny how working on string blocks makes your sewing room messy? And I love your secret tradition, may I borrow it?

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  3. Way to go..thanks for the motivation to get going on mine...it is slow but steady but WOW rewarding!

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