December OMG Bonnie Hunter Mystery 2017-18

My goal this month was to participate in Bonnie Hunter's Mystery On Ringo Lake.  I am having a gay ole' time piecing the units.  I even have a box of bonus teeny half square triangles to use at some point.  This month I have been busy.  I deconstructed a quilt that had been started by my sister and never finished. She had started free motion quilting this quilt and gave up on it at some point. She has decided that quilting is not for her and gifted my sister Paula and I with her quilting stuff. 

The UFO was a wonderful find.  The first thing I did was to take out the free motion quilting and take the layers apart.  I replaced the light backing to the right of the batting with a gold homespun. go I think the light fabric would show all my quilting mistakes so I went with a darker fabric that would match dark gold thread that I will use for quilting.

I took all the  blocks apart.

Then I sliver trimmed them to a uniform size using my half square triangle Bloc Loc ruler.  A tool that was not available to my sister when she was making this quilt.

I have stabilized the quilt using some water soluble thread which I ditch stitched on the seam lines.

You can see some of my quilting that I have done so far.  I am using Gina Perkes Mastery Ruler Series to quilt this quilt. This 10 month program teaches you how to use quilting rulers.  I am quilting on my Bernina with my #72 ruler foot and Gina Perkers rulers.

This quilt has another red border that I have yet to attach.  This has been a great learning experience.  I am enjoying this UFO project.  I need to finish it because Bonnie Hunter just posted a part 7 the day after part 6 was posted.  I need to get piecing.

I want to take a moment to thank Elm Street Quilts for hosting OMG.  The place to be to help you get your quilting life in order.  

On Ringo Lake Interleaved with Garlic Knots

Here is my progress thus far.  I am using my BlocLoc Flying Geese Ruler.  I ordered the Simple Folded Corners Ruler but it has yet to arrive.  While I am making my units for On Ringo Lake I am stitching together 2 inch squares for Leaders and Enders.  I laid out a Garlic Knots Block and grab pairs of patches as I go.

I am using the INTERLEAVE CONSTRUCTION to make good use of my scrap box.

After I made my first few Garlic Knots......

 I went through my scarp box to find sextets of 2 inch square scraps.  Once done I went back to select a companionable duet to complement the sextets.  I emptied most of my 2 inch section.

I used those fabulous 1/4 inch clips to keep the patches together.  Some of the patches or more traditional looking and the others are bolder.  Not sure if they all belong in the same quilt.

   Meanwhile my sister is coaching me via email about value and construction.  It is so much fun to quilt together if we are doing it long distance.

Here are my bonus itty bitty half square triangles from the corners of the flying geese.  I wonder what this will be? Come join the fun at On Ringo Lake Mystery and link up your progress.  My OMG for this month is to keep up with the clues for Bonnie Hunter's Mystery Quilt. Come on over to Elm Street Quilts and join us by monthly goals for our quilting projects.  See what the others have accomplished.

On Ringo Lake Mystery Clue#1

 I got off to a slow start because I was traveling at the outset of Bonnie Hunter's new Mystery Quilt.  I decided that I wanted to use just one sewing machine so that my quarter inch seam would be more consistent,  My sister Paula completed last year's mystery En Provence.  She learned many skills through this process and encouraged me to join the fun this year.  I am looking forward to the experience. After Clue #2 was released I was on a mission to catch up.  My sister Deborah came for a visit with mom this week.  I spent the morning preparing Sesame Chicken in my vertical chicken cooker from Treasures in Earthen Vessels.

 It was overbrowned but but still delicious.  I roasted fennel, carrots, onions and red peppers with the hen.

Then I got to work on my nine patches.  Today I start on Clue #2.  I was hoping my Simple Folded Corners Ruler would come in the mail before I started.  I need to make a passel of flying geese. So far I have only used scraps from my scrap box.   When I finish a project, I cut the leftovers up into 2 inch, 2.5 inch, 3.5 inch, 4 inch, 5 inch, 6.5 inch and 10 inch squares and put them in my scrap box using my Accuquilt die cutter.