24 November 2012

Easy Street Mystery Clue 1

I love Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilts! Bonnie very generously provides a pattern and instructions for a free mystery quilt every year, a new clue is posted on fridays between Thanksgiving and New Year.  No one except Bonnie knows the final design, but you can be sure there will be lots of small pieces and lots of different fabrics! It is a great way to use up left overs and to make a small :) dent in your stash!

Most of the quilts I make are long term or very long term projects! I love hand piecing, hand applique and hand quilting, but every so often I like to use my machine. The mystery quilts are great, there is no agonising over which fabric goes where, all you have to do is follow the detailed instructions in each clue. You can be confident that if you like the fabrics when they are sitting in the basket, you are going to love them when they are in the finished quilt!



Clue number one was posted yesterday, so this afternoon, I cut and sewed, and cut and sewed and sewed some more...






Chain piecing is very therapeutic and makes short work of piecing!



Before long I had 192  3" four patches! well actually I have 195 and a half!  I got a little bit carried away...



I like to pin them in sets of 10, and put them in a zip lock bag, with a label before I forget what they are for!


I am linking this to Bonnie's Blog link up:
http://quiltville.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/easy-street-monday-link-up-1.html

16 comments:

  1. I just started mine today - grey and white but the rest of the colours are different. Found your blog through quiltvillechat. Looking forward to working on this although I'm supposed to be finishing not starting - aren't we terrible ? xx

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  2. I love the colors - so rich and mellow, like a tapestry!

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  3. I too love the colours. Wishing you a wonderful birthday weekend. What did your DH cook for you.

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  4. I really like your colors. I had such a hard time deciding which colors to use that I am making two mystery quilts! I know, I'm off my nut! And now, looking at what you've chosen, I'd like to try a third - but I'm not quite that crazy!

    Cheryl in Friendsville
    www.katydidart.net
    katydidart60@yahoo.com

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  5. Ohh that ziploc thing is a great idea - I'm runnign ou of shoe boxes for UFOs and WIPs...

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  6. Great fabric choices! I was a bit timid this time and am following the colors Bonnie used.

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  7. Your fabrics are beautiful. I love the warm persimmon color of your constant.

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  8. Congrats on finishing clue number one, now comes the hard part...........waiting for the next clue!

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  9. Did I already leave a comment? Sorry if this is a duplicate. I really like your color choices. The pale greyish/blue looks fabulous with the other colors. I'm still trying to decide whether to play along. I can't begin sewing for another two weeks and think I may be too far behind by then. But as I look at everyone else's colors, it's very encouraging.
    Nancy from joy for grace

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  10. Your fabrics make my heart sing - just gorgeous! Looking forward to step 2.

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  11. Yay, you went with the orange instead of the gray too! Your fabrics are beautiful!

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  12. Love your fabric choices and your four patches look great!

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  14. Great color choices! I can't wait to see how the quilt turns out.

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  15. Love your fabrics I am along the same lines but will use the gray I have a perfect gray in my collection! my stash is telling me I have too I really don't have alot of brights...

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