Easy Street, progress

I am still working on the mystery quilt called Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter. She continued to post clues over Christmas, and I knew that I couldn't keep up then. I was not in the same country as my sewing machine!

Since coming back for the New Year to England, I have worked steadily to try to catch up. It will happen eventually, because the mystery is not a secret any more. The last clue has showed us the end result, which makes it much easier to work on the quilt. I like to know what I'm doing.

Lots of cutting and sewing 

The piles of block pieces are mounting

Clue 7 was the 4 corners and 12 triangles

So I am now working on clue 8, the last one but quite consequent as it involves making all the blocks 16 of one and 9 of the other, and then putting the quilt together....I have made 2 blocks,  but I want to link up with Bonnie's blog and the deadline is tonight. At least I have made all the 4 corners and the 12 triangular blocks to set everything on point.

 This is an arrangement not definitive to show the colours.

 With extra corners ready.

My first 2 blocks, 14 more to go.

There were some points when I thought I wouldn't have enough fabric in one colour-way  but finally all my pieces were cut. It's just a question of assembling everything now.

I will hopefully be able to show you a finished top soon.

Enjoy your sewing.

Pascale.

Part 4 of the mystery quilt

I am still keeping up with the clues given by Bonnie Hunter to make her mystery quilt called Easy Street. We are on week 4 and the pieces are starting to add up.
I would like to do the extra cutting she gave us as well as I don't think that I will be able to do much in the next 10 days really.
Here are some photos of the finished pieces, just put together to try to make a pattern

This week we made more flying geese with purple for the geese, and blue for the background. We then sewed them to purple and white geese made previously.
I can only try to guess what the quilt will look like. Still no green has been used.

Enjoy your sewing, maybe for some Homemade Christmas presents.

Pascale

Easy Street part 3

I'm still keeping up with our Mystery Quilt on Bonnie Hunter's blog. I have done part 3, finished it yesterday Wednesday in fact, and waiting for our next clue tomorrow Friday.
Here are some photos:

 We had to make 64 blocks so there was a lot of cutting triangles, and 2" squares.

 Here's half of my block. I particularly liked Bonnie's method to make these. It worked very well.

2 of the finished blocks

4 of them with different fabrics

And here are the 64 finished blocks.

I really wonder what this quilt will look like. We haven't used the green yet.

The amount of work involved is supposed to diminish around Christmas, not that I will be able to sew then.

This afternoon I spent a few hours with 2 good friends, pulling on the needle, with coffee and cakes. Such a wonderful time, but too short of course.

Enjoy your sewing.

Pascale.

Easy Street part 2

I keep going on the Mystery quilt organised by Bonnie Hunter. Part 2 is lots of flying geese. I have made nearly 90 out of 128, so am nearly there. It will happen, no problem. You can view what other people have made on this post, there are nearly 230 people doing this quilt. I'm going to link this post on my blog to hers.

I still keep my pieces attached by 10 to count them.

Some flying geese, and some half made.

With the difference in time zone, Bonnie will give the next clue tomorrow morning for her, which will be afternoon or evening for me in the UK. That's fine, I will start on the next stage when I can. The week ends are quite busy with the family, and I know that next week I will be out 4 evenings out of 5. That's a lot of Christmas food and parties.
I am not going to stress about this project being done in a deadline. It is a very busy and nice time of year, and I will spend a lot of it with my family; there will be some travelling involved.

So enjoy your sewing.

Pascale.

Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt

I am starting a mystery quilt, you can find the instructions on Bonnie Hunter's blog "Quiltville's Quilts and Snips" here for the fabric requirements, and here for Part 1.

The quilt when finished will be for DD3, who is modelling on the photo with my blocks for the first part. I have not finished the 192 4patches, but am on the right way. Over 120 are sewn and pressed already, and a lot of 2 squares are together.

My strips of grey with white and black.

On some strips, I used different fabrics.

 I followed the choice of colours suggested by Bonnie. I am not very adventurous on this one. Except I would not have taken the grey and bright colours, but I would like to have a modern quilt at the end.

 On this photo you can see my plain grey, and the white and black fabrics.

My printed instructions.

My 4patches are still attached, 10 together so I can count them quickly.

Have fun sewing, I am enjoying following somebody else's instructions.

Pascale.