I am finished with my En Provence' quilt top!  It just took me a full year to finish the top, but things have been busy on the home front with my teaching.
I need to find backing now and pin and quilt it on my Sweet Sixteen.  It's next in line.  I first have to get Dean's quilt finished.  I have about 1/4 of the quilt to finish.

close up of one block

the flimsy!

Yeah!  We have started the "On Ringo Lake" mystery quilt!  I love the colors and yes, I am repeating myself.  I love turquoise and browns; they are my favorite colors.
Come and sew with me by visiting Quiltville and join in on the fun.

I cut my strips and sewed about 1 dozen on my Singer 401a.
I love them!  More irons in the fire, but I don't mind.  Christmas break is coming up fairly soon and I can devote more time to piecing and quilting.

I have more to go...see my strips at the top.  So join in on the fun and use up your scraps!
                                            On Ringo Lake quilt mystery at Quiltville.


I stepped away from working on last year's mystery quilt, the En Provence'.  I am happy to say that I have just the last 'neutral' outer rows to stitch.  I like how the quilt is finished with the star points on a neutral background.  I think I will bind this with magenta.

I have been piecing all day and am trying to finish last year's mystery quilt, En Provence.  This is a pretty quilt with yellow, purple, lilac, magenta, and green.  I love it.  I am sewing on the last two rows to finish this quilt.  I'm not sure if I will have someone else quilt it or take the time to quilt it myself.  I watched my Craftsy class with Leah Day to get some inspiration. 
Like many quilters, I have many tops to finish and pieces to quilt.  For example, I have the bag for Leah's class pieced, but not pinned to quilt it.  I also have yet to finish Leah's first block of the month, too.  I have all 12 blocks pieced and 7 quilted.  With school and lesson planning, it has been hard to set aside time for myself to piece and quilt. 
That aside, here's a picture of my almost finished En Provence' flimsy.  I need to iron the seams and add the last rows.

This will be finished before the start of this year's mystery quilt.  Between baking, I will get this done.

At the start of the school year, I bought several chef coats for class and thought to get them embroidered with my name.  I opened my embroidery files for both the Viking and also the Bernina...neither of the programs would open!  Okay, so what is this?  Well, the embroidery files cannot be opened using the new Windows 2016 app.  I had to locate extensions to try to get the computer to recognize my files.  Well, after getting in contact with the techie personnel, I found that I will need to upgrade and purchase the most recent embroidery software for both of my machines.  Ugh! 

After reading how others were in the same boat, someone suggested purchasing another embroidery compatible software package, Embrilliance.  This was way cheaper and it works with my Viking.  The Bernina, on the other hand, still needs its specific embroidery files to create and download the ART embroidery.  I don't have the extra $$$ to purchase, so essentially, my Bernina embroidery capability is gone.  I did download and used their demo version, but that will go away after the trial period is over.  I wasn't considering purchasing another top machine; what I have works and sews just fine.  I know technology is forever changing, but I am not willing to buy yet another package or another machine. 

I am seriously considering getting the old cpu out of storage and hook it up, just so I can use my embroidery files.  It has not been upgraded with the 2012 or 2016 Windows programs.   Ahh...the woes of technology.

My, does time fly!  Here we are again at the start of Thanksgiving week and Bonnie Hunter is ready to post this year's mystery quilt.  I am so excited.  If you're interested, visit Quiltville blogspot and get the latest information and link to get started.

I love her color selection.  I have most of the colors, but I do need to add more to the coral and turquoise piles.  I have plenty of brown, but I have to dig a bit deeper to get to them.  (We moved to our new house this past July and I am just about finished with organizing my sewing studio and the brown stacks are in the back on the shelving unit.)

my fabric stash

Here's last year's mystery quilt, En Provence' in parts.  I have to finish putting the last two rows together.  I have been working on it when I can.  This school year has been busy and when I get home, I am bushed!  I have just enough energy to cook our evening meal.

This is going to be a very colorful and pretty quilt when I finally piece it together.

Here's my pictures of Annie Unrein's patterns I purchased and made projects....

Dean's changing pad

My crochet bag with lots of compartments and needle holding pockets.  This was a lot of fun to sew.

 One is able to remove the center zippered pockets if needed when working on a project!  I started filling my bag.

Talking about personal milestones....

I took a sewing class with my favorite person....Annie Unrein!  I love her patterns and have been making her pattern line for a few years now.  My projects finish so professionally!  Our local quilt shop advertised Annie coming to teach.  I signed up and also attended her trunk show.  This was so much fun and challenging.  I love how my bag come out and plan to make more.  I also bought more patterns which I've made up two more projects.  Here are my pictures...

 Here's my travel bag.  This reminds me of "Starry night"  Vincent VanGogh.

 Inside the bag with pockets made of mesh ....

It's been awhile since I last logged in and some very important milestones in our family have occurred.
The first and foremost....Dean Charles Kemp....our newest addition to the Jamison clan.  I don't have pictures yet, but we have gone down to visit him along with his older brothers, our daughter, and our  son in-law.  Dean is growing so quick and is beginning to smile.  I laughed at how no one left him to cry a bit.  As soon as he whimpered, the boys were right there to pick him up and console him or change him or just to hold him.  It was great to watch the loving interactions.

I started a quilt for Dean.  It has the Star Wars theme throughout.  I am quilting this on my Sweet Sixteen machine and having fun filling in lots of pebbles.  I plan to finish before the start of summer, but who knows.  I've been quite busy with working at school and come home so tired.  Getting up at 5 am and out the door is tiring and then dealing with high school kids.  This last month before the end of the school year will be enough...students are already shutting down and not working at full capacity.  This is what confuses me with this generation of kids.  It is June yet?