Allietare! - Bonnie Hunter's 2015 Mystery Quilt
#941
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Catskills, New York
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Ms. Alva, those new Santa hats in pairs are really neat, although daunting to see: you've done all those since this morning, while I thought that I was doing well to see, print, read the download, and then wrap some 60 gifts so far. My (Santa)hat is off to you! May I say again that I really like your colors in the three sets that you showed us.
#943
I just finished cutting all the pieces, now on to sewing. I really like how the colors combine, both with BH's colors and w/ my yellow. Haven't seen any others of the alternate colors (in this clue) but judging by how they have looked till now I expect them to work nicely. Looks like there might be some optical illusion in this one.
#944
I have 60 of my red headless geese made (although they are turquoise in my case). I was going to alternate those with the neutral ones, so that I could sew some pairs together and see the result, but I have black thread in my machine and I don't want to sew on the neutral ones until I change that. I guess I'll find out how many headless geese one almost-full bobbin will make
#945
Done 4 sets of the latest Santa hats except for final trim. Started out cursing my way through but now I think I'm getting it. They are coming out better, straighter, so I am actually ending my day on a happy note. Have about 6-8 more sets cut, which considering I did my mothers food shopping for the month for her today, put it away, and made lunch at her place isn't too shabby for the day.
#946
I am cutting the sets one at a time and then assembling them. Might be a waste of motion but I don't get flustered with all that cutting at once. Finished up day with 7 sets made as I found time in Lala Land (as DH calls my sewing room). Happy with my progress so far. Decided that if I trim the block after all assembled it is easier to fit the center of the Santa hats to match.
#947
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Tulsa, Ok
Posts: 4,582
Got the red and neutral trapezoids cut! Then started on the dreaded tiny black triangles. ugh! 480 TBT (tiny Black Triangles)!! fOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!!!!!! It is going to take days!! Yes, I need some cheese with my whine tonight......
#948
I cut the black into strips and stacked the strips in stacks of 4 and subcut into squares then halved the squares into triangle, it's still a lot of triangles but the cutting went quicker.
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