I spent Friday not at the mall nor on the computer shopping but at my cutting table starting to work on Bonnie Hunter's Grand Illusion Mystery Quilt. This quilt is quite a departure for me as I rarely make a quilt from a pattern. Lately my brain has been in overload so I decided to pretty much follow Bonnie's color choices as I wanted to just sew without really thinking too much.
I cut out the yellow squares fairly quickly and then slowed . . way . . down as I worked my way through the black squares. I have a large black collection - but a lot of it is in pretty small pieces, so I figured this was a good time to cut up anything less than a fat eighth into usable squares, bricks and strips. My smallest pieces are 1" wide as I am collecting this size for a future project.
At the end of Friday I started cutting out the blue and pink strips and cutting them into triangles using the Easy Angler Ruler when I ran out of steam.
Saturday and Sunday I continued cutting and finally finished all of the blue and pink strips and made all 280 pairs of triangles and actually sewed four squares together!
And they came out the right size!
Today between some desperately needed housework (a full house all weekend) and putting up some Christmas decorations, I made serious sewing progress. Note: the two blocks in the upper left corner are actually finished. Two down - 98 to go!
Hey Jennifer
ReplyDeleteHappy to see you doing the mystery. I have my fabrics and will be ready to start this week. Getting a late start because of Thanksgiving company. Great work!!