Clud #6 - Mixing up the Neutrals - Good Fortune

Happy 2019 to everyone!

A wonderful way to enliven neutrals!!  Thanks for the easy clue during the holidays.  Want to see everyone elses take on this clue? Head over to the Monday Link-Up for Clue #6 at Bonnie's blog.

If you want to join in the mystery, it  will be live until approx Feb 1st 2019 at  at Good Fortune Mystery.

Clue #5 Underway - Happy Xmas to All

http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2018/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-5.html

Clue #4 - Makes me crave Orange Juice!!

Time for Monday Link Up Clue #4 -- so much fun!

Love - love - love these orange string bricks!!  Made for a reasonably fast clue to finish.  And that pop of blue - I call it my "scream" fabric of which this might be the last!   Found it on a clearance table eons ago. 

Inxlus

We haven't even begun to put a dent in the oranges with these - so looking forward to more orange units!

If you want to join in the mystery, it  will be live until approx Feb 1st 2019 at  at Good Fortune Mystery.

Good Fortune Clue #3 Complete

My greens are on the bluish side because that's what I had & could find at a reasonable price.

By my calculations, this uses most of the greens called for but I might have made an error - will double check! 

No sizes or numbers posted per Bonnie Hunter's free mystery rules. The mystery will be live until approx Feb 1st 2019. If you want to join in, links to the fabric amounts and all the clues can be found at Good Fortune Mystery. After Feb 2019 this link will either not show the clues or will not be there at all.

Good Fortune - Clue #2

OK it's time for Monday Link Up Clue #2! It's so much fun seeing everyone's colours and how they lay out their units!



My goal this year is accuracy so I tried a few ways with these HSTs to see what was most accurate for me. First of all, I starched my fabrics before cutting.

First, I tried my free triangle foundations which are always gauranteed acurate. I like these because I can cut to the size of my scraps and sew together. I made about half of my HSTs this way.

I tried cutting triangles oversized and trimming with my folded corners ruler but that wasn't as accurate for me - have to line up the sewing line just do and that was a bit of a pain. I'll save the folded corners ruler for its intended use.

Then I tried 8 at a time and trimmed with my bloc loc HST ruler. Sweet these are so accurate too! I made the other half of my units by this method. They are add identically sized!

By my calculations, this uses less than a third of the blues called for so I'm pretty certain there will be more blue before we're done. I figure we've used @ 1/5 th of our neutrals by now. Just for fun, once we're a few clues in, I will post how many pieces the quilt has as I'm sensing that this one will be lots of small pieces.

No sizes or numbers posted per Bonnie Hunter's free mystery rules. The mystery will be live until approx Feb 1st 2019. If you want to join in, links to the fabric amounts and all the clues can be found at Good Fortune Mystery. After Feb 2019 this link will either not show the clues or will not be there at all.

Good Fortune - Clue #1 finished!!

It's fun to see everyone's progress - to see lots head over to Quiltville Good Fortune Clue#1 Link Up


By my calculations, this uses less than half the reds called for so I'm guessing there will be more red before we're done. We've only used less than 15% of our neutrals. Just for fun, once we're a few clues in, I will post how many pieces the quilt has as I'm sensing that this one will be lots of small pieces.

No sizes or numbers posted per Bonnie Hunter's free mystery rules. The mystery will be live until approx Feb 1st 2019. If you want to join in, links to the fabric amounts and all the clues can be found at Good Fortune Mystery. After Feb 2019 this link will either not show the clues or will not be there at all.

Good Fortune - Bonnie Hunter Mystery - Fabrics

Are you making Bonnie Hunter's new mystery quilt? It's called Good Fortune - what a great name. I just L-O-V-E the colours she has chosen this year.

I'm generally not a mystery quilt person but I made her On Ringo Lake last year in half-size and really enjoyed it. (One of my DDs fell in love with it so it's found a good home.

I plan to blog about my experience this year for the first time -- we'll see how it goes.

Now to choose the fabrics.

The paint chips:

Bonnie's fabrics:

Amazingly(!), I just bought these four last week - I'll think they will be where I begin.


Over on the Quiltville FB page, a very kind reader posted DMC floss colours that closely match the paint chips! Hurrah!
DMC Floss Colours FB Post

Quilting Calculators - Yards and Metres

There are many quilt fabric calculators and apps all over the web but they all calculate yards.  My calculators give the amounts of fabric required in inches, yards and meters.

They calculate the minimum amount of fabric required so if you are purchasing new fabric it's a good idea to buy a little extra.  They have short and long output - the long output tells you how much will be leftover after converting to yards or meters.  If the amount is very small this is your signal to buy extra--or cut very, very carefully.

I originally developed these for my charity quilting.  It can be so frustrating to cut borders only to realize that one is short and if only I'd cut the borders 1/2 inch smaller I'd have had enough.  With these calculators I can measure and if I don't have enough, I can recalculate with slightly narrower borders until the amount works.

Try them at Border, Binding and Backing Fabric Calculaors -- in Meters and Yards

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Quilts & Tops from 2018

Arrowhead aka Garlic Knots - Charity quilt

This is the first Arrowhead Puzzle (aka
Garlic Knots) quilt I made.  My blocks were made from 2" strips and so finish 6"

Free motion quilting on Arrowhead Puzzle baby quilt

I used this one to practice free motion quilting - the quilting is much easier to see from the back:

I made this table runner from a Connecting Threads kit that I purchased on clearance.  (Pieceful Place Table Runner by Mari Martin)  Made it for FMQ practice and used two layers of Hobbs 8-/20 so the quilting would show up more:

It now graces my DR table.  The double layer did show up the quilting but I wouldn't do this for place mats because a glass or stemware would not be stable on it.  But for the centre of the table I think it's just fine.

Hot Stuff - Charity Quilt

Marimekko and I Spy leftovers to make a cheerful charity quilt that hope some toddler will love.

Garlic Knots II - Charity Quilt

Added to leftover arrowhead (aka garlic knots) blocks to make a second baby sized quilt.  The borders are Debbie Mumm fabrics that are nearly vintage LOL!

Granny's Scraps - Charity Quilt

Went through my charity quilt group's scrap bin for small pieces to make this one.  It's inspirec by Elsie Campbell's  Big and Little Sister Quilts from her book Radiant Quilts .  Her two quilts are made from 2 1/2" and 1 1/2" squares - mine is made from 2" squares.  Some of my fabrics made less than completely successful blocks but all were enjoyable to make

Esks and UofA Colours - Charity Quilt

My home football team (Edmonton Eskimos) and my alma mater (University of Alberta) have the same colours - green and gold - like our river valley in autumn.  This was quickly made from 2 1/2 inch strips.

Flower Power Tulip Fields - WIP

A while back I started on some string blocks for a quilt based on Bonnie Hunter's Tulip Fields from her book String Fling - one of my favourites!  I've kept my internal and block sashings the same as hers but my flower blocks are larger!

One of my Tulip blocks

My sashings will be green where hers are orange

Green Sashings

Another difference is that her flower points and cornerstones are solid red where mine are a variety of red tone-on-tones.  I've kept the cornerstones with the green sashings in one fabric - a lovely mottled red that has streaks of orange through pink.  Aiming for kid's single bed size of @68"x78" as it's destined for my granddaughter.  She still has to grow into a bed so I've plenty of time to finish it!  Sure is a good use for all those strings cut from straightening fabrics as well as odd bits from my upcycled shirt collection.  Tried to have at least one bright string in each triangle though some of my blocks from months ago were a little dull.  Mixed up when laid out they should be fine though.