We finally quilted En Provence the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt from 2016/2017 this May. I made the quilt in Bonnie’s colourway and am quite pleased with how it turned out. How can I not be when purple is my favourite colour? Marc helped me quilt it on the long arm quilting machines that Whirls and… Read More »
This past weekend I cut out batting for 4 small quilts. Thanks to our purchase of 2 rolls of batting this summer, there is no shortage of batting in our house. I still haven’t touched the roll of wool batting. The batting I cut this weekend was Hobbs 80/20 batting. I’m happy to report we… Read More »
This is another of my quilts that came from the Zig Zag Nines quilt by Bonnie Hunter that I ended up deciding not make when it was already partially assembled. Crazy yes, but I just didn’t have a use for a king sized monstrosity of a quilt and the assembly of it was not going… Read More »
When I pulled apart the almost finished Bonnie Hunter Rick Rack Nines quilt from her Adventures with Leaders and Enders book, I ended up making 7 smaller quilt tops from it. This is the second of the quilts that have been completed. The 9 patches were from the torn apart quilt and I added the… Read More »
This quilt is made from a block by Bonnie Hunter featured her Addicted to Scraps column in Quiltmaker magazine called Idaho Square Dance. It’s made in blues and creams/whites from my stash. The quilt ended up 93″ inches square. It has been gifted to a dear friend. If my math is right there are 2,763… Read More »
This quilt, from Bonnie Hunter’s blog, is called Scrappy Trips Around the World. You can link to the pattern here. It was given to my step daughter as present to mark her graduation from a university honours program. It’s a super easy pattern and very fun to make. Many of my colourful and bright 2.5″ strips … Read More »
I’m really enjoying working on the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt En Provence. Its taught me new techniques and is helping improve my piecing skills. I’m putting it together in quarters and right now have two of the four quarters finished and the last two are well underway. No idea how I’m going to back this… Read More »
I think this quilt has decided it wants to be around 60″ by 80″.. with or without a border I’m not sure yet. I’ll decide when I have a whole lot more blocks done. Right now I’m just enjoying the process and stressing over whether I’m either too scrappy or not scrappy enough. Scrap quilting… Read More »
Lots of progress made on this quilt today And even more by late afternoon. This block is so fun and easy to do. I’m not a big lover of blue but my stash decries that – I have a lot of blue so I have a lot of variety to make this really scrappy. Just… Read More »