Fortunately I had already downloaded this week's clue before the internet was disconnected on Saturday! Last week I had a guess that our next clue might be this:
On Sunday I managed to get about half of this week's clue done. Sewing on the neutral triangles was easy enough, but I when I came to adding the blue ones, I had some trouble with the machine wanting to eat them. After a few mangled ones, I fed them through the machine the opposite way to that which Bonnie recommended. That is, I had the blue triangle uppermost, and that worked much better for me.
There can't be much more to this mystery. By my calculations we need another 92 blocks to complete the small size. Or will we be making some setting triangles so we can put everything we've done already on point? We'll have to wait to next weekend to know!
In the meantime, it is lots of fun to visit everyone's blogs and see how they are going, admire their colour schemes, and wonder at their layout guesses. I will add Bonnie's link-up here as soon as she sets it up!
Here's the link-up!
14 comments:
You guess right, the split triangle was on clue #5. I am waiting for more green units, maybe next clue. Hardly can wait for Friday. I have never seen a tall lantana like your neigbour's. So Beautiful! Buterflies love them. Happy 2014!
I'm thinking that it will be an on-point setting - but that's just my opinion.
Easy Street was on-point, maybe this one will¨be different? But we need more neutrals. You have great colors, by the way!
Bonnie has said herself that she doesn't use a lot of neutrals in her quilts - but a few more in the CS would be lovely (I have a fair amount of neutral yardage left yet). You're a good guesser!
I'm using a wooden kebab stick to hold the points in place until they're well anchored under the feed dogs. My main problem on this one was getting the machine to accept the thick lump where the first neutral triangle joins the HST. Even when chain-piecing and using a leader the foot refused to grab them until I gave the fabric a shove with the stick.
I think we all must have great minds thinking alike for the last bit of units.
You did a great job on the guess work! I really like the blues that you have chosen for your blocks.
Thanks for the shot of summer sun! The lantana is gorgeous. Some more neutral & greens would be good. Can't wait for the next clue.
I think I enjoy visiting all the blogs as much as I do sewing the mystery!
Beautiful fabrics you are using for Bonnie's mystery, it will be a gorgeous quilt.
It is a gray dull day here on Cape Cod. Your lantana reminds me that summer will come around soon. In the meantime we have orange fabric to keep us feeling sunny even if the weather is not! Happy sewing!!
I always enjoy your journey with the mystery quilt. Your powers of deduction are well honed. Well Done.
Happy New Year Enjoy the stitching.
I love that you are enjoying summer when it's going to be below zero at night later this week where I live. Nice patchwork, quilting sister from down under!
Your units look great! Beautiful flowers. I wish we had some of your heat its -12 F below zero in MN where I live right now.
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