Full House Reading Challenge 2018
I had so much fun with this challenge the last two years that it made the cut for my reduced challenge load this year. Thanks to Book Date for hosting. I’ve completed the card in the first half of the year (barely), so feel good about finishing a challenge.
- Mystery or thriller A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1), Sherry Thomas
- Historical Farriers’ Lane (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt #13), Anne Perry
- Over 500 pages Patriot Games, Tom Clancy
- Setting in library or bookshop The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
- 4 word title Death of a Liar (Hamish Macbeth, #30), M.C. Beaton
- Last book added to your TBR (as of the time you fulfil this one) Busy Body (Agatha Raisin, #21), M.C. Beaton
- Classic Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- Fantasy The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #3), Rick Riordan
- Coming of Age theme Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #4), Maggie Stiefvater
- Adapted to a Movie Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Holiday season Merry and Bright, Debbie Macomber
- Has big plot twist Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands #2), Alwyn Hamilton
- Humor The Very Best of Mark Twain: Short Stories
- Book to improve your life Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr
- Redemption theme All the Crooked Saints, Maggie Stiefvater
- Has a number in the title To Die but Once (Maisie Dobbs #14), Jacqueline Winspear
- Under 250 pages Death of a Nurse (Hamish Macbeth #31), M.C. Beaton
- New to you author from another country The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes #1), Anthony Horowitz
- From a favorite series of yours Death of Yesterday (Hamish Macbeth #28), M.C. Beaton
- Dual timeline The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
- Non-fiction hobby book Brave New Quilts: 12 Projects Inspired by 20th-Century Art – From Art Nouveau to Punk & Pop, Kathreen Ricketson
- Children’s book Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
- Book chosen randomly from TBR shelf The General’s Women, Susan Wittig Albert
- Memoir or Autobiography Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
- Re-read The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #2), Rick Riordan
I’ve been working on this quilt for a long time, in that I’ve been slowly playing with fabric scraps to construct these “made fabric” squares. They were pieced together randomly from my ‘tiny scrap’ bin and when a section got large enough, I trimmed it into a 6″ finished square. When I had enough constructed, I set them on point using the setting pattern for the 1920’s Farmer’s Wife quilt that my quilt group is working on, and voila! A craaazzzzy quilt. I made a wonky, crazy pieced backing and made a totally random scrappy binding from pieces of leftover binding from other quilts. I quilted it myself on my home machine with a free-style crazy quilting pattern of spirals in the squares and loops in between. It’s totally scrappy and was fun to make. The only problem is that with all those biases, it doesn’t square up perfectly. But this was an experiment and it’s made to be loved and used, so whoever gets it can just use it to death, and it’s OK.
I named this quilt “Curvy Cabins” and took a class to learn this curved piecing technique in September of 2017 at Quilt Etc. in Sandy. I cut out all the pieces before the class, then sewed up two blocks during the class to learn the technique. My instructor helped me get all the pieces for the remaining blocks sorted out into piles so that I just had to start sewing blocks at home. It went together quite quickly and then I worked on the curved seams. I finished the top and took it back to Quilt Etc. for quilting on Halloween and got it back from them just before New Year’s. So I got the binding almost sewed on in 2017 and finished the last yard of hand-sewing it down in early May because I set it aside and worked on other things. 
