July OMG Finish

My version of Bonnie Hunter's On Ringo Lake is finished and sitting on top of my sister's version of Bonnie's Hunter's En Provence at her house at the moment.  I brought it there for a sisterly Show and Tell.  I learn so much about how to make successful scrap quilts from Bonnie Hunter and Gyleen Fitzgerald.  I learn so much from their mystery quilts.  I am making progress on Gyleen's Graffitti mystery quilt.  I cannot show pictures of her blocks here but I can show pictures of the blocks I have added.  The Graffitti quilt is an alphabet quilt.  I used the letters she drafted to spell the famous pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog."  After perusing line drawing of foxes and dogs on the internet I drew a fox and dog.

Here is my fox and my lazy dog. ( I blurred Gyleen's number blocks.)  The lighting of this photo is terrible.  I was having trouble with the proportional sizing of the two animals.  I made the fox first and since it was about 28 inches long I made the first dog a little less that that so he could jump over him.

 

My first dog was just too big.  I wonder if my second is too small.  Hmmmm???  

My next concern is to understand proper attribution of one's quilts.  I drew my pictures after looking at a number of line drawing.  The fox is based on a felt mask of a fox, a line drawing of a jumping fox and the feet came from a coloring page version of a fox.  I put them together in a drawing and made my appliques.  The dog is a drawing I made while looking at a line drawing.  I originally planned to paper piece it so I drew it using all straight lines.  I changed my mind after them making the drawing of my second version of my fox.  I drawings are not really original.  They are cobbled together from other peoples stuff.  They are definitely derivatives. I am not sure what is kosher.  Any experts out there?

OMG almost completed.

I found an image of an asymmetrical quilt and thought that it would be great for a pieced back.  It would not matter how much was trimmed off on any side.  I will be using this again.  I tried several different arrangements of the  half square triangles on the floor before I settled on this one.  Next time I will plan better and make that decision before I make the blocks.

I ran into several problems while quilting.  I found this block that was constructed incorrectly that needed fixing.

My new ruler broke after I had completed about two thirds of the quilt.  I taped it together and continued.  I was very nervous about using the broken ruler because my sister has had to send 2 of her sewing machines in for repair to the timing mechanisms due to misadventures in quilting.  I tried to be very careful but I would not recommend you do what I did.  My impatience ruled the day and I chose to continue.

My next problem was the threat of running out of the discontinued thread I had chosen to use.  I choose to quilt from the center blocks in rounds so that if I were to run out I would come up with a new choice for the corners of the quilt.  The white core was peaking out when I had the sixteen blocks on the corners left.  I decided to leave out the center quilting of the blocks until I knew I had enough.  I went back and quilted the centers.  Then I switched from the Superior ⇲35 weight Lava variegated thread to a Superior Art Studio 40 weight blue thread for the setting triangles.  I have used this cone over and over.  I will probably use the rest for applique. I will miss this thread.  I have so much thread it is nice to pare down my thread stash along with my scraps.  

 One of my dear sister's gave me this binding bobbin buddy. I put it up on one of the thread spools on the top of my machine and pulled it through the back of my machine and merrily sewed it on the edge of my quilt.   I had planned on using this one blue fabric for the binding.  I had my heart set on it but there was not enough.  I did not want to purchase more fabric.  I wanted to make my scrap quilt with leftovers on hand.  I scrounged around and found another fabric.  I thought I had enough to bind this quilt.  I did not.  I was just a few inches short.  I filled in with a scrap of a blue hand dye.

 Thank you Bonnie Hunter for what you do.  Here are the front and back of my completed ON RINGO LAKE quilt.

I do not seem to be able to finish my goals on time recently so this will be my OMG but I will also try to complete a Gyleen Fitzgerald Grafitti Mystery quilt.