Weekend Stitching: Mystery Stitching

This was one of those weekends where I'm glad to go back to work so I can rest.  We discovered mice in the house the Sunday after Thanksgiving. They were all caught in pretty short order, but not till after they had made a nest in the recyclables.  We pitched all that, but we kept catching whiffs of mouse all over the kitchen, living room and library.  So we did some deep cleaning this weekend.  We moved furniture, Mr. Cleaned the wood floor and baseboards in the kitchen, then steam cleaned the carpets in the living room and library.  I think we got all the smelling residues they left.  

The deep cleaning didn't leave a lot of time and energy for stitching this weekend but I got a bit done.  The last two borders were added to the Christmas Mystery quilt.

Christmas Mystery designed by Carrie Randall (Quilter's Hideaway)

This was such a fun project.   I plan to hand embroider eyes and a mustache on the nutcracker before the quilt gets sent out for quilting.  I'm not going to get that done before Christmas unfortunately.  But I'm planning to get this one ready to go to out for quilting before the end of the year.  

The only other stitching that got done this weekend was on Bonnie Hunter's Good Fortune mystery.  I worked out a procedure to get both the half chevron block and the HSTs from the green rectangle and neutral squares using one of my rulers and Bonnie's instructions.  

I didn't get very far, but at least all the neutral squares are cut, so all that's left is to stitch up my quota.  

Holiday preparations are going to suck up a lot of my evening time this week.  So I'm not sure how much I'll get done.  I need to bind one quilt that's intended as a Christmas gift, so my plan is to spend my 15 minutes each evening getting that done. That may be all the sewing I can fit in this week.  

Linking up with

Bonnie Hunter's Clue 3 linky party
Monday Making
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