Hello out there,
For the last few weeks I've been following along with Edyta and her quilting mystery. I had a lot of fun with it, adding some fabrics as I went along, but mostly using my original six, these ones.
When we were done piecing all the blocks, we were to sew them into rows and then sew the rows together. I decided to put mine together a bit differently, it's easier on my back if I don't make long rows. So I made 4 blocks like this:
And I made 4 blocks like this:
Then I made the middle block:
I rotated the blocks until they were aligned right and then sewed them together. Much easier for me. I did change one thing, and thats they way a few of the green 'arrows' were pointing. My quilty muse just likes it better :)
Edyta showed us some lovely borders that we could make, but I went with my own design.
This quilt uses light, busy background and there is very little tone on tone or solids in it, so it's a little outside my box, but I had a lot of fun making it. Thank you Edyta!
Stay safe and have a great week!
Hello All,
We have been having the wackiest weather here. A few weekends ago we had 15" of snow on the ground. Then we had 3 or 4 days of warm sun, getting up near 60. Now we are back to cold/wet. We have a dusting of snow on the ground today with cold temps. And tomorrow we are going back to sunny.... I guess that means it's Spring :)
Here are my blocks 1 thru 5 of the Laundry Basket mystery quilt.
Blocks 2 and 3 are the same pattern. Edyta just suggested changing the light and blue fabrics for other light and blue, but I just did mine all the same.
Then I decided to add in the fun green polka dot. I am not much of a polka dot fan, but when the Simply Color line from V & CO came out, I thought those polka dots were so fun (I really love the whole line!). So I bought a yard of it, and it stayed in my stash ever since (the line came out in 2012)!
It just happens to match the other green in my blocks just perfectly :)
You all take care out there, have a great day.
Hi Everyone,
Hope you are all staying safe out there. We are well here on the Ridge, we have lots of outside work to keep us busy on the nice days, and inside stuff to keep us busy on the wet days.
Thanks to Edyta at Laundry Basket quilts, we have a new mystery quilt to make. My long time readers know how much I love a mystery :)
These are the fabrics I've chosen, all of them except the lighter pink came from my best quilting buddy Pat@scrapatches. They are a mix of fabric designers, it's such a fun bundle!
And here are the first two blocks. Edyta is doing one block a day for 15 days. Some blocks we will make 4 of, others 8, and such, to end up with 100 blocks.
My quilt wont be as scrappy as Edyta's, but that's ok, I am having fun and enjoying these lively fabrics.
Thanks Edyta!!
Have a great day Everyone.
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