Monday, June 22, 2020

Bonnie Hunter Frolic - body of quilt top completed

I finished putting this together this weekend.  The next step is an inner border and then the outer borders of raspberry/neutral half square triangles and blue/neutral half square triangles.  I want to slightly expand the dimensions of the quilt, so I'm thinking of widening the inner neutral (off-white border).  It's supposed to be a queen size but needs to be a little wider to provide adequate drop over a thicker mattress.  At the moment I'm stabilizing the outside of this section by stay stitching and then will trim to even up the edges into a straight line. 

Thursday, June 11, 2020

work in process - Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt - "Frolic"

I've been working on this since the beginning of the year off and on.  I have the 25 main blocks made and now in assembly, but also making the half block setting triangles as I go.  this fills one of my long term goals of a quilt with a hidden secondary block that emerges when the blocks are assembled.  (the white areas of the quilt).  Also the blocks are set on point by doing diagonal rows.  This is a weird color way, so not sure where I will use the quilt .  After the block assembly, there will be a sold white/neutral border, then a red/neutral and blue/neutral 1/2 square triangle external borders.  I may make add another neutral border in between the 2 half-square triangle borders to add a bitt of width and length. to the quilt.