Anyway, the mystery quilt is designed by Bonnie Hunter and can be found here:
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Mystery Quilt
I've wanted to make a quilt for years, and my husband has been telling me I should take up quilting (he knows not what he says). So when someone posted on AQ about a mystery quilt, I said, what the heck. Now, my only experience with quilting so far was one pillow. And that ended up smaller than it should have because my seam allowances were off. No, I do not have a 1/4" quilting foot. Still don't.
Anyway, the mystery quilt is designed by Bonnie Hunter and can be found here:
Bonnie is using orange, green, yellow, blue, and neutrals. However, anyone who knows me knows I can't stand orange, and I don't care for yellow and green much more. So I went with purple (big shocker, I know), blue, fuchsia, and green. It took me four different stores to find the fabric and a friend to get me the tool I needed for part 1, but then I was rocking.
Anyway, the mystery quilt is designed by Bonnie Hunter and can be found here:
It turns out that cutting out 376 triangles is very tedious. Very, very tedious. I'd cut for an hour. Take a break. Cut for another hour. Take a day-long break. (Luckily for me at this point, I still didn't have all of my fabric so I had good excuses for not cutting all of it out.) To be honest, I was still cutting out little triangles as I was finishing up sewing the first set of pieces. It turns out that it's also hard to keep track of exactly how many triangles you have cut. Here is Calvin with about 85% of the needed triangles.
Luckily, once I started sewing, it went faster. I have created a guide on my machine that is giving me pretty accurate 1/4' seams. (I still need to get a quilting foot since the whole tape and cardboard thing I have going on is a pain every time I need to reload the bobbin.) I love sewing things that I can sew in chains. And with only a couple technical issues, I soon had all of my triangles done. :)
My first square
Chain sewing
Part I complete!Here are samples of where everyone else is: Monday Link-Up
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3 comments:
Welcome to quilting! Yup, much of quilting can be persevering through many, many pieces. Looking forward to seeing your progress on your quilt journey.
~Jillian in North Dakota
I hope you will enjoy the mystery! The whole process is fun, especially seeing how everyone is going on the Link-ups.
I usually cut for a while, then sew for a while. Then I count what I have finished, and cut some more. It is not in my nature to do all the cutting first.
It's coming along well! I love the colors!!! Blues are so pretty. I think you will love quilting, once you see something finished. It is amazing how long a quilt takes to make, especially when you are new to it. You just take it a bit at a time, and don't get overwhelmed with everything you haven't done yet- enjoy the process! And there are SO many cat quilts out there in the world.... ;-) You're gonna love it! Can't wait to see you progress from here. (And I don't have a 1/4" foot yet either, just know where it is on my regular foot.)
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