Quiltville Good Fortune Mystery Quilt

Each year the Friday after Thanksgiving begins the newest Quiltville mystery quilt designed by Bonnie Hunter. She gives us a new clue each Friday. This year I have changed dramatically from her colors to Mardi Gras colors and black for my neutrals.

Bonnie's colors are Green, Blue Red, Orange and whites for neutrals.

This is my visual cheat sheet. When Bonnie calls for white and red units, I make them black and purple. This chart kept me from getting confused.

Clue #1 looks like this.

Clue #2 looks like this.

Clue #3 looks like this.

Clue #4 looks like this.

This is an example of how my units will play together in a quilt.

Clue #5 looks like this.

Clue #6 looks like this.

I laid these units out pretty quickly just to get  an idea of the color play. I really hope Bonnie makes the outer blocks into a ribbon border like I did here. There are exactly enough blocks to do the outer border on a 72" x 72" quilt. 

Clue #7 looks like this.

This is the finished quilt pattern in her colors.

This is on the design wall to see what mine will look like.

Done with these blocks.

Done with these too.

Good Fortune hanging next to Celtic Solstice--the first mystery quilt I made.

This quilt will be given to my daughter, Lynn, who is having her bachelorette party in New Orleans later this month. It is her Good Fortune that I used Mardi Gras colors. It's not a traditional wedding quilt but I think it suits her. 

Thanks, Bonnie Hunter, for another fun mystery quilt. I've been participating in the mystery fun since Celtic Solstice. So Much Fun!!!

Link up party at Quiltville!

Sasha says, "Time to walk?"

Quilting....

I love the black with purple dots!

Finished!

Link to Last Mystery Monday Link Up.

Jelly Roll Rug

Jelly Roll Rug    27" x 41"

Start with a roll of batting 2 1/4" wide by Bosal called Katahdin On-A-Roll, and the Jelly Roll Rug pattern by RJ Designs then add......

.....one jelly roll of pretty fabric Kaffe Fasset by Free Spirit.

The strips of fabric are sewn together end to end. As I did this I wound them onto an empty toilet paper roll.

To keep the batting and fabric tidy while unwinding I hung a dowel rod off the back of my sewing table and slid the fabric and batt roll onto it.

The fabric and batt came up from below.

Fold both sides toward the middle and sew.

I let the sewn "rope" puddle on the floor.

When the fabric was gone I still had a little batting left on the roll.

Since green was the last color off the spool it became the center of the rug. Zigzag stitch going around and around and around.

This rug is for Sasha to sleep on while in my sewing room.

She loves her rug.

She loves it more when it's in the sunshine.

Beach Road Coverlet

"Beach Road" coverlet 60" x 72"

 designed by Susan Holman, 2018

Fabric needed: 

1 set of 40 fat eights. (I used Beach Road by Jen Kingwell)

3 yards of complimentary solid color (Aqua Infinite Dots by Victoria Findlay Wolfe)

From each print cut 2: 2" x 22". From solid cut 40: 2" x Width Of Fabric.

Sub cut the solid into 22" lengths.

Sew the prints to the solids. Press seams toward the solid.

Cut each strip set into 6 units each 3 1/2" square.

Make separate piles with 40 units each--1 of each print.

Sew each pile into a Block with 8 rows of 5 units each.

Start upper left with the solid color, alternate each row to get the pattern.

Press vertical seams toward the solid. Press horizontal seams all one direction.

Make 12 Blocks. Each should be 15 1/2" x 24 1/2". Each Block will have 40 unique fabrics.

Sew the Blocks together in 3 rows of 4 Blocks each. It should then be 60 1/2" x 72 1/2".

I layered the quilt top with a pieced backing (NO BATTING) and quilted it along all seam lines.

(I chose to eliminate the batting to purposely make this a lightweight coverlet.)

Quilt along the seam lines.

Add binding. Machine wash and dry. Done!

I pieced one of each fabric and added beach footprint fabric.

The label has a selvage from the Beach Road by Jen Kingwell fabric and I added a solid blue fabric with my name and the year finished.

Label.

The back has seashells and foot prints.

This is half the Beach Road coverlet.

Finish It Friday link to Crazy Mom Quilts.

Jelly Roll Scrap Buster

I have a large heap of scrap fabric that needs to be whittled down. This block is sometimes called Puss In The Corner. It uses a surprisingly small amount of fabric. My scrap pile isn't shrinking at all.

I don't know what the quilt will be called yet but here is the beginning of it.

Since jelly roll fabric is 2 1/2" wide it's perfect to use for this block. Cut 2 identical squares for the sides and one square for the center and one square for the corners. ALL cut 2 1/2" SQ.

Cut the pair of matching squares in half. So each piece is 1 1/4" x 2 1/2".

Cut one of the remaining squares into 4 pieces each 1 1/4" SQ.

Arrange it with the big square in the center and little squares on the outer corners.

Sew all the rows together.

 90 blocks on the design wall, not sewn together yet.

I have no idea how big this quilt will be. 

But I do have a piece of woven fabric I'd like to use on the back of a quilt,

 so maybe I'll make these blocks fit to that fabric.....

Home Sweet Home Fairy Godmother

Who is your Fairy Quilt Godmother? The website Paper Panache has free fairy godmother patterns. If you answer some silly multiple choice questions and hit the enter button you'll get links to each section of your fairy godmother. This is paper foundation pieced so all you've got to do is print the patterns and sew them up. All the fairies are different so you never know what you'll get! This is Lynn's fairy.

I like to use colored pencils to color the pieces. It's SOOO much easier to get the colors right and not accidentally put background where hair goes plus you get an idea of what she will look like. I'm adding the fabric license plate SWEET HOME from a quilt shop in Alabama. (My daughter and I love the movie Sweet Home Alabama and this fairy is for her.)

The necklace is a thimble but I just had to sneak a gecko into the quilt.

And she is doubly blessed to have this extra fairy in her quilt.

I heavily quilted the background so....

.....her face would pop out!

This brown/orange batik was absolutely perfect for her frame.

Home Sweet Home Fairy......for Lynn. 

May you have many happy years in your new home.

Link to Finish it Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.