Easy Street Week 3

And the mystery continues to unfold.  If you have not gone to Bonnie Hunter's Blog yet, click HERE.  Check out how others are keeping up with the progress of the mysterious Easy Street.

 This is the 3rd week for Easy Street.   The cutting hasn't been too bad, and I most say that the directions are outstanding.

 Here is the line of of the 3rd set of piecing.  I do love these colors.

These are the rejects.  I couldn't let these slide by.  These and others were taken apart and reconstructed.  They were too wonky and did not measure 3.5".  Yep!  some I even did 3x's.  I measured my distance from my needle correctly, but I believe my cutting may have been off.  I need to pay more attention to the angle of how I use the rotary cutter.  Did any one else have the same trouble I did?

 

 I also believe it was a factor in why my points did not all meet (left ok, right off).  But I can live with that little bit, at least my geese have heads.    (Quilt police alert  lol)

Quilt Fame Donation

This is the quilt frame I was given at a local yard sale.  I thought it was the type you could sandwich it together to then remove and quilt on your lap, instead it is the type that stays in the frame while quilting.  I sure it has some value (maybe antique, anyone know) but I found it a new home.

Why?  Because I have one already and it is much more up-date  I simply did not understand it's description when it was gifted to me.  So I will pass on the generosity to someone else.

This frame has been sitting in my basement for too long.  It time to GO.

There is a group of quilter with newbies that will be picking this frame up.   I hope they enjoy it.

Well its Friday and Clue #3 was released.  I thought we were done with black on white but this set of instructions include the black on white fabric and simple am low in that dept.

So I will be posting later after a quick run into town for some serious shopping.

Easy Street Week Two The Flying Geese

 And so the mystery continues to unfold.  By this time there will be millions of flying geese in various locations.  And if you hop on over to Boonie Hunters site you can take in the rainbow of colors.

Here is my interpretation of Bonnie's instructions.  Being a scrappy quilter, I am confident of my colors and the mixture makes me happy.  I have some fabrics I pulled out from the late 80's and placed them next to the ones from 2012........IT'S A TIME TRAVEL THING.

 

And here is what I have so far.  The colors are coming together nicely.  Can't wait to cut into the apple green and turquoise.

It still not to late to get in on the mystery.  Remember Bonnie put this out for us in December for a limited time.  Sometimes people are left disappointed because they failed to jump.  Click here to view everyone's progress.  Bonnie has a tab at the top of her site indicating Easy Street to get in on the action.

Unknown Quilter's Top / Thrift Find

Whenever I find a unfinished vintage quilt, be it at a yard sale or thrifting, I think of where the fabrics may have come from,  who was the intended quilt meant for, and finally, what happened to stop its completion. 

I've heard that sometimes its for reasons beyond the quilt-maker's ability to retain possession of such treasures.  It could be due to death or illness.  Often times family does not seek out a worthy means  to distribute the treasured quilter's possessions.  

So then, as seekers of a good bargain, what would be the right thing to do when we find a treasured UFO quilt top?

A.   Buy it, take it apart and make it over

B.   Complete the quilt in its original form
C.   Pass the buck...Gift it to someone else to finish.

This UFO is scrappy-happy.  It has been machine sewn.  The color fabric appear to be vintage 50's (keep in mind this is my guess).  Anyone have any clues?  The whites appear to be of linen fabrics, stable but in need of repair in some areas.  Many of the points are not sharp, in fact some are cut off and shifted from point.  It is unsoiled and appears to be large enough for my queen bed.  Since it is unfinished there is no tag. 
  

Well, my plans are to keep it in its original off-point condition, repair some of the squares that need mending, add a simple one-color border and quilt it myself.  Not sure if I will quilt by hand or on my Pfaff table top sewing-machine.  A simple primitive style Baptist Fan Pattern may be nice.

In any case, this UFO will sit until next year with a resolution to complete this unknown quilter's top.  Hope this makes the Unknown Quilter Happy.

Easy Street - Week 2

Friday Bonnie revealed her 2nd set of instructions for her 2012 Mystery Quilt, Easy Street.  Bonnie said she was not going to have anything smaller than 2 inches.  "For this step you will be making 128 flying geese units with purple as the large “goose” triangle and black-on-white as the “wing” triangles and 64 2” X 3-1/2”.

Here are the color slides Bonnie presented and my cut products.  Click here and go on over to Bonnie's site.  She has a tutorial on the easy angle ruler to help with the cutting of the geese.  These colors are fabulous.  I ended up pulling some of my fabrics from a Halloween project I had planned.  I purchased the fabric before the release of the colors selections.  

I'll post pics later this week after I get this batch sewed up.


In the meantime I want to share with you what I made for the Christmas gift exchange I will be participating in with my guild.

  

Folded star or Somerset patchwork

This is a hot pad with some warm and natural sandwiched in between.  I plan on making some for myself in some other color patterns.  This is not something I designed, I found this at Jennifer's site bronzewombat.  Click here for the tutorial.