Progress on my blue WIP for my monthly goal. Can I finish this week?? Rocky Road to Grayson is a Bonnie Hunter pattern so the sashing is a ton of sewing: 3 strips with all 4 corners snowballed, then 1.5″ 9-patches for the cornerstones. So lots of time sending stuff under the needle. But the first two rows are together, the third is ready to have its top sashing attached, leaving two more rows for this week. Bonnie loves borders & I do not, so my lap-size version of her pattern is looking big enough for me. (Peeking out on the right are the first of the 4.5″ string blocks for Bonnie’s Stardust. Lots more are started on my table but these made it to the finish line.)
Cozy evening binding got this quilt group project all bound up. It’s a Brightly pattern, made after we did our Christmas version. This uses up all the leftover Songbook kit fabrics, with some stash thrown in, for a fully scrappy stash quilt. The night after I finished it, my son & daughter-in-law were over & I showed it to her. She loved it & asked if she could inherit it. I said, no, she could just have it now. So she chose the name, “Autumn Bloom”, I wrote on the tag, sewed it down & she left with a new quilt.
In other blue news, our current quilt group project is a flag quilt, each in our own fabrics. We’ve been working on these sawtooth stars since November. There are 60 total so lots of tiny flying geese. For Christmas, one of the group gave us each a Wing Clipper I, by Studio 180 Design, so the last set went much faster. They got sewed together with sashing this week & the blocks are now done. Next week we start sewing red & white stripe blocks.
I still need to sew my blue Starlets blocks, which are cut out. I’ve chosen my pattern for the Quilter’s Cove QAL, but no fabrics have been cut or sewn. It’s the My Town Quilt by Material Girl Quilts. I feel like blue may bleed into February!
Rocky Road to Grayson is gorgeous, Sue! I love those sashings/cornerstones that create the stars. Brightly is a beautiful finish, too! Have fun with all those tiny stars. Sounds like you’re getting close to having what you need!
Thanks! I love Bonnie Hunter patterns, but they are a bit exhausting to do. I think that’s why this one got left in the box. But now that I’m full into it again, I’m remembering why I loved it & how much I love it in my blue version rather than her yellow background version. (Sorry, Bonnie)
Wow, they are all so pretty!! The Rocky Road is just stunning! xx