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.