Who is making Bonnie Hunter's 2015 mystery quilt?
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Comments (23)Bonnie Hunter - she is a delightful, friendly, funny person. Her lecture & trunk show in the evening was fantastic. Her talk is very energetic, and humorous, as well as informative. If anyone ever has the opportunity to hear her speak - Do it! (From this group here) I am very familiar with Quiltville and her techniques, so most was not new to me. What I did learn is she is not a paper-bag-grab-it-sew-it scrappy kind of person, and she admits this. I was ready to abandon all control -- and fortunately I did not have to ~LOL~ She selects each piece of fabric that gets sewn by color, or design. Her scrappy is planned. Her reds may include all shades of red from light to deep purple. Her method of dealing with leftover fabric and pre cutting them and organizing them ahead of time requires great discipline, but it uses up pieces of scraps that would probably go in the trash. The string blocks I made were from my scraps and from Teresa's stash. Many people cut up shirts, others had coordinated collections, or Christmas reds and Christmas greens, the lady next to me combined beautiful purples and greens. I only saw one other truly scrappy and I did not like hers at all. I used only white, wow, beige,light tans as the side strings (Neutrals), which resulted in a secondary diamond design. I do not have a big variety of neutrals, so I may have to buy some. I made a few more blocks this week. What I do not like about this - is it is very messy, uses alot of thread and there is thread bits everywhere! It is also not quick. I will probably continue to make these blocks. Each piece of fabric is from either a quilt, or block I have made, or from Teresa. Bonnie loved that I was using a calico from the 70's - Teresa's! Here are some pictures so far - the blocks are not in particular order or sewn together:...See MoreBonnie Hunter's Mystery Quilt begins
Comments (15)Good on you to make it to one of her workshops. That being said, I'd run from one screaming because of all the little triangles. LOL. They are just beautiful, however, But I think my patience factor would be shot before I'd have enough blocks to make a pillow. I am sure you'll walk away from it knowing a lot of wonderful tricks and techniques you can use on other quilts. I think doing a mystery quilt would be fun and sort of a painless way of making a quilt because of the anitcipation factor. One day, maybe I'll jump in there and do one..........but not this one. ;-)...See MoreWho is making the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt?
Comments (24)Jackie, You better wave when you're in Orlando! There are a few of our members who live close by there. I'm about 2 hours away so we'll just be waving. :-) My granddaughter lives there though. Since Bonnie said if we wanted to make a smaller quilt than her's we should make half of the blocks, I only needed 50 of Step 1. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up with the big one and I only have 10 more to make. Actually, just need to put the squares together, square them up and I'll be done. Kate, I think as long as you have some good contrast between your fabrics, you should be ok. I have never made a mystery quilt from Bonnie, so have no idea what to expect except I know she uses a lot of smaller pieces. Put your darkest where the black goes and the lightest where she puts the lightest.......go by where she places her lights, meds and darks to know where you put yours. That's the only thing I can think of to do. SharonG/FL...See MoreHas anyone made Bonnie Hunter’s Carolina Chain?
Comments (8)I think Bonnie (and quite a few others) consider 1/4 yard small enough to be considered a scrap and hence, cut it up. These people usually have bolts or many yards of fabric available to them. I'm not jealous as I'll never use up all the fabric I have (no bolts or more than 2 or 3 yds).......especially if I keep buying it! Sometimes I can't resist and other times it's needed. In any case, it's slowed way down from what used to happen. :-) I like having containers of various size blocks, strips, triangles, HST, extra blocks, etc to look through for inspiration when needed. It's my hobby......and I don't have any rules..........See Moremsmeow
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