Good Fortune Clue 4

This was a very easy clue for me. Since I am using only one fabric per color this year, all I had to do was cut the units. No strings for me this mystery. After I did this....

it only took me a few minutes to get them all cut. I am really liking my color choices. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

The rest of the day was spent working on the binding for On Ringo Lake and decorating for Christmas. Ready for Clue 5!

Can't wait for my copy of String Frenzy to get here. I have some fabric all ready to use for strings!

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Good Fortune # 3

Finished Clue 3 Sunday night.

Just some quick pictures today. I'm very happy with the way things are looking right now.

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Good Fortune 2

Merry Christmas to me! My husband walked in Friday and gave me an envelope of money to redo my sewing room! I've been thinking and dreaming about it for a while. Watching Bonnie Hunter get Quiltville Inn all fixed up has inspired me to really get busy and get this done. Several weeks ago, I went to an Estate sale and found a picture for the wall. It is a print called "Pieced Quilt" by Don Finley.

This is what I imagine my great-grandmother might have looked like. She quilted, my grandmother did not. My grandmother crocheted and sewed garments. She could take someone's measurements and make a garment with no pattern. Good thing, she raised 5 girls during the depression.

This is the one quilt I have that my great-grandmother made. Love that it is a double wedding ring. My aunt is actually the one who gave it to me. It was given to her for her hope chest, but she never used it, so she gave it to me. How lucky is that?!

I managed to get all of my Clue 2 units of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt done on Friday. If I keep up with them, I have a better chance of completing it before the end of next year, haha. 

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Good Fortune 2018

Good Fortune 2018

Good Fortune will be my 6th Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt. The colors for my quilt this year were inspired by a picture of hydrangeas. I wanted my quilt to be lighter colors this year. I also chose to go with only one fabric for each. Although I usually do scrappy quilts, I wanted this one to be different. My neutral is a very pale periwinkle color.

Dark purpley blue is Bonnie's blue

Lavender print is Bonnie's red

Light Blue is Bonnie's orange

Green is Bonnie's green

The really dark purple in the back is not being used in my quilt, just didn't get it out of the way.

I have completed Clue 1 and have On Ringo Lake on the longarm to be quilted. A new pantograph design is on the way and as soon as it gets here I will get started. I had hoped to have it finished before this years mystery began, but a broken wrist set me back several weeks. Cast is off and therapy is really helping get it moving again.

Clue 1

  Haha, night picture.

  Day picture.

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Chugging Along on Clue 3

Clue 3 was finished yesterday.  It took me a few trys to decide how I was going to do them. Cutting rectangles and squares and then drawing lines was just not going to happen. I finally decided to make a template to tape to the back of my easy angle ruler. Worked great for me. I stitched and pressed in batches of ten trying to vary my neutrals as much as I could.

This is a good sampling of my pieces.

Here is my little template that I used. Several others made the same type of thing.

I have been using fat quarters. Using this template instead of cutting rectangles, I was able to get 5 units from each strip. Had I cut rectangles and used the flip and fold square technique, I would have only gotten 4. I cut 2 strips at a time, right sides facing each other. That gave me my mirror images. Then I used the other end of the ruler to cut the triangles. For me this was the best option.

Ready for the next clue!

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Next Step of On Ringo Lake

My geese have been finished since Monday night. I am just not very good at getting a post up as soon as I finish.

These are all of my coral fabrics. I had most of them in my stash. A friend and I went to a quilt store closeout and I couldn't pass them up.

Most of the neutrals had to be purchased because En Provence took of most of what I had last year. It was fun looking for lots of them to replenish the neutral tub. I think I have eleven or twelve. 

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Getting Started On Lake Ringo Part 1

Well, I didn't get around to sharing anything about Bonnie Hunter's 2016 mystery quilt En Provence. I didn't even get the logo. I did, however, make the quilt. The top is complete and I found a backing so now it needs to be quilted. When it is complete, a picture will be posted. I am going to try to be better about sharing how things are going this year with On Ringo Lake.

Part 1 nine patches are complete and ready to go for this year. My goal this year is to have each clue complete by Sunday night. Hopefully that will give me time (and the incentive) to work on some other things during the week.

Love the colors Bonnie chose this year, so I didn't change them.

I'm linking up with Bonnie Hunter's Mystery On Ringo Lake today.