Cured of Making Mystery Quilts

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Kathryn

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Plans for the last two weeks were

Next Blockheads block. Well its been two weeks so two blocks.
Quilt the stars on the Oh My Stars quilt and then add binding. Done, this was just the small size but that’s okay by me. I used Cozy Up 5inch squares and a border from that fabric. Stars from my stash. .
Start in on making the edge blocks, half and quarter B blocks for the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt, then start sewing rows. I did get this done and all the rows are together. I am really not in love! I used different colours, which did not quite work. However it was all those points and small blocks that did me in. The back of this top is very messy!! It’s not for me, I don’t mind a BOM but I am a person really who likes to know where they are going! Thanks to Bonnie Hunter anyway, she is very talented with scrap quilts.
My February WIP turned out to be the 3″ blocks I’d made during Sewcialites 2. I’d made 12 of them so I will turn them into cushions. (pillows) I have completed one.
Finally I am making a temperature quilt with the free pattern from FQS. January is finished and the block made. A tree is for the last day as there are 31 days in January. I am using scraps from my stash, on the back of the quilt I’ll put a key to each fabric. The dark pink is 27-28 degrees C. which is about 82 degrees F. However it has not been so much the temps as the humidity that has been the issue. Very high.

Make another cushion (pillow)
Make next Blockheads block
Maybe trim the edge of the mystery quilt and then sew a lap to keep the stitches firm. I am going to eventually add a border but I am not putting on the final pieced border. Had enough!
Keep the February temperature block going.
Whatever I feel like working on.

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Kathryn

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Continue quilting the Oh My Stars quilt. Have finished quilting the interior of the quilt, still to do the borders.
Complete sewing up the Block A’s then move on to the Block B’s if I get that far. I have completed the Block A’s and half the Block B’s. My work with the tri rec rulers was not that good but I guess the way to learn is to try. Would have been better if I had someone beside me, I did do You Tube videos. Could have been my ruler slipped a bit on me. I did the centre of this block in the wrong colour, but as it turns out it was a happy mistake as the Block A’s are rather dark when put into the layout. Using Anne of Green Gables fabric.
Make the next Blockhead block. Oh was this fiddly to do. It has nearly cured me of the 61/2 inch blocks, should have been going for the 121/2 but didn’t want a huge quilt. Using Edyta Sitar fabric.!

Finish making the Block B’s, and then the edge blocks, this is a quilt set on point (Bonnie Hunter mystery.)
Make Blockheads next block.
Make the BOM by Sherri at A Quilting Life. My fabric arrived – a Coriander fabric Peachy Green I think it is called.
Quilt the borders of Oh My Stars
Keep up the temperature quilt, into the third week of January now.
Box and post away the four NICU quilts.

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Kathryn

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Finish hand sewing the binding onto the Space NICU quilt.
Start the temperature quilt. Recording highest temperature of the day – We use Celsius Started – will be fun to watch the temperatures over the months.
.Make a start on whichever number is called for January, for WIPs. To progress on a project from last year or earlier. #1 was called which is a smallish Oh My Stars pattern from Pat Sloan using Cozy Up fabric. I have pinned it and started quilting. I want to use my circle rulers on this. It’s a challenge to hold the ruler and move the quilt!!
Make the new Blockheads 5 block when it comes out later in the week. This was designed by Sherri from A Quilting Life. These 61/2 inch blocks are challenging!
Work on Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt 23/24.All the clues are now out and it’s a matter of putting the units together to make blocks. I am working on Block A’s.

Continue quilting the Oh My Stars quilt.
Complete sewing up the Block A’s then move on to the Block B’s if I get that far.
Make the next Blockhead block.