Monday, December 21, 2015

Allietare! Part 4

With part four of Bonnie Hunter's Winter Mystery Quilt, there are more and more interesting units and I have no clue how everything will fit together!  Although some quilters are calling these modified flying geese units "Santa hats", I'm sticking with the original "decapitated geese", as that make me smile.  This week's block backs that moniker. What else would headless flying geese do but crash into each other mid-air? So these blocks are decap geese mash-ups in my mind.  Oh, Bonnie,  Bonnie!  Where are we going with these?

See more interpretations of decap mash-ups on this week's Linky page.



Monday, December 14, 2015

Allietare Part 3

Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie, what a great color scheme you have given us for your mystery quilt Allietare!  I haven't been to Italy, but Portugal showed me these same colors.  Part 3 was so much fun matching the different golds and neutrals, and my painting tape seam guide is keeping my seam allowance honest.  No trimming at all.  So here are the Part 3 four-patch units.

See the Linky page for Part 3 here.
Go here for Bonnie's instructions for Part 3 of the mystery quilt.
And have fun!

I'm liking the decapitated geese!!!


Saturday, December 12, 2015

Allietare, Part 2

These are the units for part 2 of Bonnie Hunter's winter Mystery Quilt Allietare!  I'm loving the reds!
See the work of other quilters at the part 2 linky page here.
Bonnie's instructions for making the part 2 units are written here.
I'm seriously compressing my time scale because of family considerations, so my part 1 happened Thursday, part 2 happened Friday, and part 3 will happen Saturday.  No, I'm not racing. I'm sewing when I can.

Bonnie K. Hunter's Winter Mystery Quilt: Allietare!

Bonnie Hunter revealed the clue for the first step of this winter's Mystery Quilt on the Friday after Thanksgiving.  We've had the materials list for some time, so I was ready to sew.  Life intervenes, and my actual start was delayed until a few days ago. I was content to view progress that others had made through Bonnie's Part 1 Link-up page - and wow!  The fabrics!  Now I can add my own photo to the Linky for part 1.  It's very freeing to just make the components without having to figure everything out, and this process is just what I need right now.