I got a little behind last week with Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street Mystery Quilt, but today I feel as if I have pulled it back a bit. Firstly, I caught up on the fabric cutting. Last week we were assigned to cut squares in our final colour, which for me is PURPLE. I was itching to work with another colour, but it just didn't happen last week, so it felt like a bit of a treat to dig into my stash and pull out the purples.
All my cutting is up to date. I still have to join up some of the Flying Geese from last week, and to complete the rest of this weeks block. I also have A LOT of trimming to catch up with. I am really pleased with my colours and can't wait to start piecing all these parts together. It has been great fun playing with the pieces to create patterns, and seeing everyone elses ideas. Here is my 'guess' for the Mystery Quilt, using this weeks pieces.
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| 145 x 3 1/5" Purple Squares |
I noticed that a lot of my fabrics have cherries on them, and I have mixed some more fruit into my quilt, with some juicy blackberries, courtesy of RJR Fabrics Farmer's Market (2008). There is a cute print 'Crazy Daisies' by Buggy Barn for Henry Glass (Pattern 1394). They are meant to be daisies, but I think they look more like to intergalactic stars, against this deep purple! There is also another 'Ditzy Daisy' (1005) print, and a swirly black and purple 'Lava' pattern (730), both by The Henley Studio for Makower, a few batiks, and a few odd scraps. Once the purple was done, I cut the red squares, and green squares I needed for Part 5. The red fabric on top of the pile is called 'Santas Got the Goods' by Diane Knott for Clothworks - I sure hope he has!
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| Red, Green and Purple Fabric cut ready for Part 5 |
The construction of this little block was quite simple - if you follow Bonnie's excellent instructions. My first few attempts were not squaring up very accurately, but once I started to sew along the right side of the line, as Bonnie suggested, they were much better. I have decided to keep the square in tact, mainly for greater accuracy further along the line, just trimming out the excess of the triangle. On a previous quilt I was sewing a similar block, but I had to cut both excess triangles because I was using a light fabric and the dark pattern was showing through.
Up until now my colour scheme has been looking a bit too festive, which has been concerning me, but with the addition of the purple I think it has been brought back to a 365 days a year quilt. Do you think I have got away with it?
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