Good Fortune

Two years ago, I worked on Bonnie Hunter's mystery – Good Fortune. As I posted back then, I had some quilter's remorse as the clues progressed here.  This was the breaking point here

I put aside a lot of the pieces, and redid my colours for Good Fortune, ending up with a quilt I liked much better.

 

 

But I saved all those rejects, telling myself that I would do something with them.  They were definitely Christmas colours, so a Christmas quilt came out of it.  I pieced it last year, and finally this Christmas got it onto the longarm for quilting.

 

 

Stars

This quilt was a project I started back in about 2014.  It was a series of paper pieces blocks, both stars and houses. I decided early on that I didn't like the finished project, combining both types of blocks together, so I separated them out and decided to make two charity quilts from them.  Borders on this one were based on a border I had seen – I loved the asymmetrical look with the geese in only two corners.  As you can see, I chickened out on fully asymmetrical, and made the top left and bottom right match.

 

In retrospect, I don't really like those cornerstones that ended up on the outside of the stars.  They either needed to be left out completely, or to be defined with another border before the geese, I think.

 

Easy Street

In the spirit of Christmas, and as Bonnie Hunter's annual mystery gets ramped up, I've decided it's time to give myself the gift of finishing some quilts. I took a couple of weekends in the longarm studio, and devoted them to my own projects, some older than others :) 

This quilt is Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street quilt, hey mystery project from 2012. Piecing was completed way back then, and it's waited patiently for its turn on the long arm. Quilted, bound, and the label is ready to go on. 

Frolic

Bonnie Hunter's mystery, Frolic. I had picked up some fabrics I loved, in anticipation of this mystery. Unfortunately, my blues and greens did not have the contrast they needed to fully display the patten. But I love the colour combo.