Bonnie Hunter 2024-25 Mystery -- Old Town
02-18-2025, 02:06 PM
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Hooray for another wonderful finish! Great job, LI Diva, and grats on your first (final??) Bonnie project. You should feel proud of yourself.
I love your "snowballing" or my "pointy ends". I considered double pointy and just didn't want to do it -- grats again to you! I also like your neutral corner block. I wanted to love mine, but it looked washed out, the contrast between your aqua and neutral is great.
It is/was certainly a fiddly quilt. I am getting closer to the border. At least I have those 4-patches made but will have to do some double checking to make sure my squares march around the project correctly with my added row, I think it will be ok... but I've thought that before.
I love your "snowballing" or my "pointy ends". I considered double pointy and just didn't want to do it -- grats again to you! I also like your neutral corner block. I wanted to love mine, but it looked washed out, the contrast between your aqua and neutral is great.
It is/was certainly a fiddly quilt. I am getting closer to the border. At least I have those 4-patches made but will have to do some double checking to make sure my squares march around the project correctly with my added row, I think it will be ok... but I've thought that before.
02-19-2025, 04:21 AM
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LI Diva - I LOVE your quilt and I also enjoyed your very accurate description of sub cuts and fiddly quilt. You deserve an award for finishing this very first of Bonnie's quilt patterns. Your colors are great and it is very striking!!
02-19-2025, 05:47 AM
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Sashing is going on quickly and easily now, but a lot of effort went into that.
I always learn things in these mysteries. Sometimes what I learn is more about me than about the quilt and we have quite a bit of that but so it goes... Quilting-wise I had one of the Aha! moments (or maybe it is a d'oh!) and an improved skill.
I made this project needlessly complicated with my layout. Not that it really matters, but I had everything placed so the same fabric didn't touch and it was important how the sashing went together. I do fairly often work on things that do have complicated layouts and have ways that work for me. Some people have that nice design wall, that is still not so much an option but I do have the design bed
We will be getting a king for the main bedroom (I will probably want to use that instead) but the queen will go into the guest bedroom. It is absolutely amazing to me the number of ways I can go wrong, from what side of the block does it go, and which is top or bottom. And sometimes the whole block drops and pieces scatter.
Short form: I can color code the little clips and mark what pieces go to which portion of the block. Maybe pictures will help?
Picture 1: From my layout, I put the pieces in place with clips.
Picture 2: Laying out to sew -- part of the issues with this project was working in 3 parts was awkward to sew
Picture 3: Before sewing, Clips added to mark where pieces go -- they are out of the way of the sewing.
I always learn things in these mysteries. Sometimes what I learn is more about me than about the quilt and we have quite a bit of that but so it goes... Quilting-wise I had one of the Aha! moments (or maybe it is a d'oh!) and an improved skill.
I made this project needlessly complicated with my layout. Not that it really matters, but I had everything placed so the same fabric didn't touch and it was important how the sashing went together. I do fairly often work on things that do have complicated layouts and have ways that work for me. Some people have that nice design wall, that is still not so much an option but I do have the design bed
We will be getting a king for the main bedroom (I will probably want to use that instead) but the queen will go into the guest bedroom. It is absolutely amazing to me the number of ways I can go wrong, from what side of the block does it go, and which is top or bottom. And sometimes the whole block drops and pieces scatter.Short form: I can color code the little clips and mark what pieces go to which portion of the block. Maybe pictures will help?
Picture 1: From my layout, I put the pieces in place with clips.
Picture 2: Laying out to sew -- part of the issues with this project was working in 3 parts was awkward to sew
Picture 3: Before sewing, Clips added to mark where pieces go -- they are out of the way of the sewing.
02-20-2025, 07:41 AM
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Iceblossom, I'm glad you figured out something that makes things easier for you!
I'm slowly closing in on finishing the pressing of clue 2 and sewing my sashing segments together.
My rough idea for the border is to make thin borders with prints that have both red and coral in them, thereby making the introduction of a coral border less abrupt than the examples I've seen. But, of course, that is a long way off. Soon I will be able to start constructing my corner units!
I'm slowly closing in on finishing the pressing of clue 2 and sewing my sashing segments together.
My rough idea for the border is to make thin borders with prints that have both red and coral in them, thereby making the introduction of a coral border less abrupt than the examples I've seen. But, of course, that is a long way off. Soon I will be able to start constructing my corner units!
02-21-2025, 02:35 AM
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I got all the sashing on the blocks, now all the blocks are sewn together in twos. It is going fast and it is going correct. My little aha! on the color coding clips has been working great and so far everything is in the the correct places.
I'm finally thinking a bit more about the border(s). I have a neutral I want to use. I have the 4-patches done, and the red and white squares cut -- I will probably have to cut a couple more for my extra length. I'm going to count out the 4-patches today, I made a few extra because of my extra row but not entirely sure I have enough.
Bit by bit, I'm getting done! Still a ways to go but I can see the end in sight
I'm finally thinking a bit more about the border(s). I have a neutral I want to use. I have the 4-patches done, and the red and white squares cut -- I will probably have to cut a couple more for my extra length. I'm going to count out the 4-patches today, I made a few extra because of my extra row but not entirely sure I have enough.
Bit by bit, I'm getting done! Still a ways to go but I can see the end in sight
02-21-2025, 03:35 PM
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It is good to see your progress IceBlossom and that you and Joe's mom are closing in on this very labor intensive mystery. I am anxious to see both of them.
I finished the 2nd half size of the mystery and was able to use some of the border units that I had made. I sewed the mini FG together to form some wonky square in a square units, had to incorporate a substitute brown for the border and will still have lots of extra pieces that can go into my orphan box. It seems like I should have an additional border ...your thoughts?
I finished the 2nd half size of the mystery and was able to use some of the border units that I had made. I sewed the mini FG together to form some wonky square in a square units, had to incorporate a substitute brown for the border and will still have lots of extra pieces that can go into my orphan box. It seems like I should have an additional border ...your thoughts?
02-21-2025, 05:53 PM
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Carol in WI, that's another beautiful finish! It looks to me as though it's complete as it is, but I do have trouble picturing how things would look that aren't there, so I can't picture how another border would look. It would be easy to mock up, though, and see what you think of an additional border v. as is.
All of my pieces are now up on my wall (excepting the third row of vertical sashing segments, which are at my sewing machine). I have this up as a 5 x 4 so I don't have to bend, but my intention is a 4 x 5 (I think I'll be able to lay it out that way when the blocks are sewn together and condensed). This is not necessarily the order of the blocks, but it's too much trouble to move things around when they're in pieces like this.
I see that I could have been less timid about the sashing, and put the prints that are currently next to the sashing unit, next to the cornerstone, and something with a little more presence next to the sashing unit. For that matter, I still could; it would not be all that much stitching to remove.
All of my pieces are now up on my wall (excepting the third row of vertical sashing segments, which are at my sewing machine). I have this up as a 5 x 4 so I don't have to bend, but my intention is a 4 x 5 (I think I'll be able to lay it out that way when the blocks are sewn together and condensed). This is not necessarily the order of the blocks, but it's too much trouble to move things around when they're in pieces like this.
I see that I could have been less timid about the sashing, and put the prints that are currently next to the sashing unit, next to the cornerstone, and something with a little more presence next to the sashing unit. For that matter, I still could; it would not be all that much stitching to remove.
02-21-2025, 07:15 PM
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Oh, Joe's mom, that is wonderful. The secondary design shows very soft and delicate. I love it!
Thank you ladies for the feedback on the border....the only fabric I have enough of now is the teal so I believe it will "hold" it together better with a narrow border of that color.
Thank you ladies for the feedback on the border....the only fabric I have enough of now is the teal so I believe it will "hold" it together better with a narrow border of that color.
