Allietare centre together...

Yay!   Took less time than I expected, and I am happy with it!  I absolutely love the way the secondary patterns emerge, especially the neutral blunt-cornered squares around the on-point neutral squares with the black cornerstones.  At a distance, some of my neutrals look grey so the contrast is a bit muted.

UPDATE:  Bonnie has a blogpost with a final link-up for Allietare participants - CLICK HERE to get to the post and scroll down to see links to the other blogs and instagrams and pinterests!   I haven't yet added the borders.

Steady Progress ....

More Allietare blocks complete and the rest all need just two more seams!

Tuesday evening...

Two more Allietare are blocks almost done, and some cutting for more Birds in the Air blocks.

Allietare Mystery Progress

Eight out of 32 blocks and all the setting triangles pieced yesterday.   The rest are in sets just waiting for some sewing time.  I sat last evening and made a list of things to work on in January, carrying over what wasn't done in December, and starting with what to do today..... and I have not even looked at the lists today!  I knew that once back at work I would fade a bit - maybe tomorrow will be better!  (And I'm being distracted by Duolingo - learning some more beginner French, again!)

Please go and see all the other link-ups on Bonnie's page for this revealed mystery - in only three days there are totally finished quilts!!

Sophie's Block Lotto this month is a lovely Birds in the Air block, and these are my four.  I do hope to make some more, as Sophie's plan this year is to use Angela's Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour of each month.  January is blue with purple as a side, and I am overwhelmed by the quantity of scraps I have in blue!  Sophie also has two year-long mystery quilts happening, and I think I will join her in one of them.

A plus tard!   (See you later!)   Probably much later, as no sewing today.

 

Friday night Four-patches

Gold and neutral four-patches for Allietare Part 3.

I needed to haul out some fat quarters and bigger pieces as there was very little suitable pre-cut strips for the gold colour.  The neutral strips are all still coming from the left-overs from Celtic Solstice.

Bonnie has created a link-up so that you may see what other participants are doing - click on this LINK.


After all this time I've realised that I prefer it when the photos are in landscape orientation!

And today our neighbour's house is being used for a film location for a European advert.  The film company asked if they could put a light in our driveway....  is this supposed to be sunlight streaming through the window?

Mystery Quilt Catch-up

Well, I dithered from the time Bonnie Hunter announced her Allietare! Mystery Quilt fabric requirements at the end of October, until last Wednesday.  Before starting this Mystery, I had to push myself to get Celtic Solstice (Mystery 2013!) to a point that it might become a quilt, and with a sewing Saturday with a great group of ladies in early November this was achieved.  I haven't taken a picture yet, but Amanda took this photo!  I have enough units left over to make another one!

I thought it was time to do a mystery with a change to the suggested colours, but after agonising for days over different colour combinations, and deciding that if I wanted to keep up with each part of the mystery, I should just stick to published colours.  I found I had a metre of a lovely blue-grey Michael Miller fabric, and that clinched it.  And so far I am soooo glad, as the colours are just right.  Started and finished Part 1 on the Wednesday (meant to make 140, but made +200 half-square triangle units), and Part 2 on the day it was released (40 sewn units)!  The secret is that I am only making half the number of units, and except for the grey, all the other pieces so far have come from strips already cut.   See, it pays off to spend hours cutting up after other projects!

Bonnie has up a link-up page for participants to share their progress - go have a look at the huge variety of fabrics being used in this mystery!  Can't wait for the next part on Friday!