Bonnie Hunter's Good Fortune Mystery Quilt - Clue #1

Hey Everybody,



Clue number 1was a journey. It started with trying to be as accurate as possible when cutting my strips. An easy way to find out how many units you can make per width of fabric strip is to divide the WOF by the size of the given unit. I used 40 as my WOF measurement so I had plenty of wiggle room for whacking off selvedge edges and squaring up. Next take your total number of units needed I know I know more maths and reading of the instructions.  Anyway take your total number of units needed and divide by the number of units you could get from the WOF strip. This gives you the total number of strips needed to complete the clue. Here are all my strips ready to sew together.

I sewed one set of strips and cut one unit to make a test unit and make sure it would measure correctly per the instructions given.

Next I sewed and sewed and sewed the strips together...

and finally I cut for many many repetitions. I think this is where I got a little sloppy in my cutting.  Instead of cutting 2 strips together I stacked another set on top and was cutting through 4 layers of fabric.  I know I am lazy!!!  Anyway as Bonnie says shift happened.  Here are all of my units cut and ready to run through the machine.

and then I was half way...

And then came the great squaring up.  This is where I started analyzing where my cutting had gone wrong and where the shift occurred. Some of my blocks were a little more special than others.

But like snowflakes, people, puppies, and kittens no two are alike.  Here are the results of trimming and squaring the first half of the units.

Not to bad considering... not perfect, but much better than the first ever 4 patches I did for my Scrap Crystals quilt.

And Finally!!!!  Drum Roll please......................................... The completed clue #1

Thanks for reading.. Hope you enjoyed and hey maybe even made it to the end.

To return to the Monday Mystery Link up Please click Here for Bonnies Monday Mystery Link up #1

Bonnie Hunter's Good Fortune Quilt - Introduction

Hey Everybody!!!

It is that time!!! What time? Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt Season!!!! This year I am not broken (last year I was still in the middle of healing the broken ankle so couldn't participate) 2016 I was caught up in other projects and my sewing room was crammed into the other half of my bedroom so no mystery quilting then either. So yes the last Bonnie Hunter and first mystery quilt that I did was Allietare.


I just finished the top in time for Good Fortune to start.  Here is my completed top. I think my color choices turned out great.  I changed her reds to purples and her golds to turquoises because red and gold are just not my favorite colors. 

This year I am making the mystery quilt for my sister Kathi. She chose the colors and fabrics after the introduction was posted by Bonnie. You can find the instructions and such for this quilt Here on Bonnie Hunter's Blog http://quiltville.blogspot.com/p/good-fortune-mystery.html

These are the fabrics that she chose. Some from my stash and some were purchased to meet the yardage requirements.

These are my creative grids project boxes.  2 for the fabric and one for the completed clues.

Have fun and happy quilting everyone!!!