Bonnie Hunter 2024-25 Mystery -- Old Town
02-17-2025, 06:43 AM
#511
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Jeanie and Belfrey...both of your finishes look great. I, too have finished one of another smaller size. This has been a journey with lots of Changes...CHANCE is good, Right? From laying out the entire quilt with Bonnie's originial plan to Changing it to an on-point layout (AND sewing it together) to finally decided to make two smaller versions. The final half of this quilt is now set aside for a future challenge. But here is the first one..with many cut off points and several changes to Bonnie's colors and design. I will like it better in a couple more days perhaps. I love this group and all the words of encouragement along the way, I love to see and hear about your challenges and remedys and I especially love how much I learn from all of you. Thank you to all who contribute to our quilting ventures.
02-17-2025, 08:07 AM
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Carol in WI, I think you are too close to the project and I think it looks great. I always like that sort of weaving in/out of what I call a zipper border (the small squares). You might not see it yet, but your color choices and eliminating that middle tiny goose unit, made a rather lovely secondary Spool design 
I know with my project, the geese (tiny are not) are in pretty darn good shape -- but I made the mistakes with the Square in a Square unit and because of the vision chose not to redo. Some of those are pretty horrible on a block by block basis, but aren't so bad 5-6 feet away. I've never had to deliberately make a mistake to keep from a perfect quilt yet!
I know with my project, the geese (tiny are not) are in pretty darn good shape -- but I made the mistakes with the Square in a Square unit and because of the vision chose not to redo. Some of those are pretty horrible on a block by block basis, but aren't so bad 5-6 feet away. I've never had to deliberately make a mistake to keep from a perfect quilt yet!
02-17-2025, 08:22 AM
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JeanieG, that looks great! I can't say that I see any problem with your sashing unit, at least from photo distance.
Carol in WI, that is a wonderful result! You really transformed the look of the quilt. I love the blue outer border.
Well done, ladies!
Carol in WI, that is a wonderful result! You really transformed the look of the quilt. I love the blue outer border.
Well done, ladies!
02-18-2025, 11:29 AM
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I mentioned awhile back about putting on sashing in long strips, or as an L-shape around the blocks. I'm finally to a point where I can take a picture!!
I think the natural inclination is to piece a long line of blocks, and then a long line of sashing and join them together. Yes it works, but negatives for me is an amount of stretch and twist. And having a series of pins rake across my thigh (more times than I'd want to admit).
Some of us prefer basically just enlarging our blocks by including the sashing around two (or more) sides and then putting the combined units together. In general, I try to keep pieces as equal in size as I can. It works out (for me anyway) better if I put large pieces with large pieces, instead of smaller. Or, stacking the columns, it works out better to first but together sets of two or more and then build up with more or less equal pieces. That is, if you have a stack of 5 blocks and you need to add a 6th one, you can get away with just adding the one block, but stacks tend to skew a bit, and the difference in weight can pull on the seam.
So first picture -- long columns. Second picture -- L shape. In this quilt we have no sashing around the outermost edges.
I think the natural inclination is to piece a long line of blocks, and then a long line of sashing and join them together. Yes it works, but negatives for me is an amount of stretch and twist. And having a series of pins rake across my thigh (more times than I'd want to admit).
Some of us prefer basically just enlarging our blocks by including the sashing around two (or more) sides and then putting the combined units together. In general, I try to keep pieces as equal in size as I can. It works out (for me anyway) better if I put large pieces with large pieces, instead of smaller. Or, stacking the columns, it works out better to first but together sets of two or more and then build up with more or less equal pieces. That is, if you have a stack of 5 blocks and you need to add a 6th one, you can get away with just adding the one block, but stacks tend to skew a bit, and the difference in weight can pull on the seam.
So first picture -- long columns. Second picture -- L shape. In this quilt we have no sashing around the outermost edges.
02-18-2025, 01:17 PM
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Finished!!
I feel like I’ve run a marathon-though I’ve never actually run a marathon, but I imagine it must feel like this.
All those sub-sub-units sewn into sub-units sewn into blocks, then more sub-sub-units sewn in more sub-units, sewn into sashings, then multiple borders (made of, well, sub-units).
Felt like it might never end!!
I basically followed the pattern with the exception of snowballing both ends of the sashing units and using the neutral as the cornerstones for a slightly different look.
I’m really glad I did this-my first Bonnie mystery-but I have no intention of doing it again.
This is the biggest and by far the fiddliest quilt I’ve ever made.
I’m going to put it away for a LONG time before I think about quilting it, though for those who are custom FMQ’ing, I’d love to see how you go about it.
I feel like I’ve run a marathon-though I’ve never actually run a marathon, but I imagine it must feel like this.
All those sub-sub-units sewn into sub-units sewn into blocks, then more sub-sub-units sewn in more sub-units, sewn into sashings, then multiple borders (made of, well, sub-units).
Felt like it might never end!!
I basically followed the pattern with the exception of snowballing both ends of the sashing units and using the neutral as the cornerstones for a slightly different look.
I’m really glad I did this-my first Bonnie mystery-but I have no intention of doing it again.
This is the biggest and by far the fiddliest quilt I’ve ever made.
I’m going to put it away for a LONG time before I think about quilting it, though for those who are custom FMQ’ing, I’d love to see how you go about it.
