Allietare Top Completed

I have finally completed the top of the Allietare Mystery Quilt for 2015 by Bonnie Hunter from Quiltville,  You can find out all about this mystery and all the parts to the direct link here.   It came out bigger than I expected, and I still have borders to do, but all in all, I am really pleased with how it turned out!  I posted a progress picture on the groups Facebook page and I received over 800 likes and over 70 comments.  WOW!!!  So many followers liked my choice of softer more pastel color way, which was very surprising.  Even Bonnie Hunter herself left me a nice comment on my color choices.  I was impressed, as she has over 35,000 followers on her Facebook group page.  

Edited after thinking about the border colors more and some feedback comments from some very nice people from this Facebook group. 

I am going to use the dark green yellow as my first border, which will be 1 1/2" border, and the red / orange print for the outer border, which will be about 4 1/2".  Then I may bind it in the yellow green to tie it all together.

 

There is a link up every Monday (I'm a little late in getting mine done) and you can go here to see all the colors and finished quilts from all the other participants.

I got three quilts back from my long arm quilter, so I just need to get some binding on, and I will be posting the finished results in the next few days.

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Allietare Mystery Quilt Reveal

The big reveal of the 2015 Mystery Quilt by Bonnie Hunter was on the day before New Year's Day (she did the reveal at the time it was New Year's in Italy, as that is what she did her mystery quilt from her trip there earlier this year).  But I had another project under my machine needle, so I couldn't work on it until tonight.

I you are interested in looking at the whole quilt done using the two blocks as pictured above, you can find out all about it here.  This is also a link up of many of the participants and their own blogs that you can look at others complete quilts, progress, and what they have to say about the whole process.  Many did different color ways like I did, but many did it along the colors Bonnie suggested. All are very pretty, and I like this years mystery quilt better than last year's.  You can read about mine here from last year if interested.   I hope to work on completing this this week, as it will take more work than just sewing the completed units into blocks and then sewing the blocks together.  I still have to make some setting triangles, as this quilt is set on point.  

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More Leftovers

I was looking for some backing pieces that I knew I had stored in some of my fabric bins out in the garage, so I as I was looking for these backing pieces, I came across a UFO that I had already cut out, but for some reason did not go ahead and get it sewn up.  I did get this stitched up before Christmas, but I have hit a little snag.  Read on and I will further explain.

The pattern called Fresh Tradition comes out of the magazine "American Patchwork and Quilting" in their February 2007 issue by the designer Darlene Zimmerman.  Darlene Zimmerman is famous for using 30's reproduction fabrics and has several fabric lines of her own.  Since I so like 30's reproduction fabrics so much, I really enjoy her patterns and fabrics.  In fact I have a lot of her different lines over the years.  As I have mentioned before, I have a large storage bin full of these fabrics.  

It is a simple four patch and what I call half a snowball block as seen in this close up picture.  

The pattern of the quilt top comes in the arrangement of the blocks.  I like the vintage look of the solid dark blue.  The dark blue at the bottom of the quilt top is the backing peeking out, as this picture shows the it all sandwiched together ready for the quilting I need to do next.

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It should have had solid blue bindings, but then I would have had to piece the backing.   Now that I have it sandwiched and see a hint of what a blue border (it is the backing peeking out), I might have to change my mind and un-sandwich it, put on the blue borders and then piece the backing.  Sigh, I do so dislike doing double work.

Hint:  Bonnie Hunter has complete instructions to do this quilt pattern on her site "Quiltville" that you can fine here. She does hers in red, white, and blue, which gives you a different look of the same pattern.

Merry Christmas

I can't believe we are ready to celebrate Christmas, but here it is right now.  

See you after the first of the year!  Maybe sooner.....

Allietare Mystery Quilt Part 3 and 4

During the Christmas week, I have been working on keeping up with this years mystery quilt.  I have completed parts 3 and 4.  If you are interested in finding out more about this mystery quilt you can go here.



Part three picture:

Nothing special, just a simple 4-patch.

Part 4 pictures:

So there you have it, all the parts are done, and I am caught up!

Below is just for me and my keeping record of the fabric I am using in this quilt:

 For the red I am using Victorian Portrait by April Cornell for Moda.

The yellow is Urban Indigo by Joanna Figueroa and Lisa Quinn with Fig Tree Quilts for Moda.

The green (black substitute color from the Mystery colors chosen by Bonnie Hunter) is Back Home Again by Kaye England for Wilmington Prints.

The peach (gray substitute color form the Mystery colors chosen by Bonnie Hunter) is Urban Indigo by Joanna Figureroa and Lisa Quinn for Fig Tree Quilts by Moda.

And my neutral is Memories of Love by Maywood Studios.

Now waiting for part five.  The parts come out on Fridays, and since Christmas is Friday, not sure if we will get a clue before, on, or after Christmas.

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Star Struck Quilt Done

Please Note:  I'll start out by saying the pictures are very good, as the lighting is poor this time of year in the Pacific Northwest.  We have had overcast and rain for days on end. Sorry, but I still wanted to get a post out, as I am pretty excited to have a completion under my belt.

Well it took me a few years (from 2007) to get this finished and on the bed.  Our bed it king size, and it only overlaps a couple of inches on each side.  

I wrote some about this quilt here, but not revealing much about it, only because I might not have gotten it done, and it would be just another half done project.  My resolutions this year was to get quilts done, and only do few new things.

Here are two closer views of each side of the quilt.

This is the borders and binding.

This is a close up of the quilting.

And of course the kitty found her way right away to find a nice spot on the new quilt.  I don't know how they know when you have new fabric, towels, clothes, etc. laying around, but they find it very fast and settle in nice and comfy.

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Trying to keep up

I think I might have overextended what's on my plate.  I mean as far as taking on tow online projects, one sew along and the mystery quilt.  These are the next two blocks I have finished for the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt.  I am currently 3 blocks behind, but hoping to get caught up this week.  I want to get them done before this Friday as the next part comes out for the Mystery Quilt.

When this block was assigned, I could not for the life of me, see a daffodil.  Really a daffodil?  I made it anyway and will always look at it and wonder.  A Daffodil????

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