This year as well as choosing my own colours (here's the post about that), using metric measurements, and only making a quarter of the pieces, I'm making another change; I'm making the individual units larger. Bonnie bases lots of her quilts on 3" pieces, which translates to 7.5cms. That's not a problem, but making pieces that finish half that size (which she often does) involves cutting in quarter centimetre increments, and that doesn't thrill me. So I've decided that where Bonnie uses 3 inches, I will use 8cms. It's not big difference, but half of 8 is a lot easier to deal with than half of 7.5.
So on to the sewing!
I like to use the Magic 8 method to make my half-square triangle blocks, but I wanted to get lots of variation so I adapted the method. So that I would get two sets of four matching blocks from each "magic 8", instead of eight all the same, here's what I did:
This was my test piece to make sure it would work. I cut a square from the brown fabric (my constant), but rectangles half the size from two neutrals. Here's the result of that test:That worked well, so I continued on the same way and made a few more:
They went together quickly. And I've made a note of what size I cut them in case I need to make more at the end.
When Bonnie activates the link-up on Monday, I'll add the link here so that you can check out everyone else's mystery bits!
Here's the first link-up.
Here's the first link-up.
21 comments:
Love your colors. I just started using the 8 at a time method and absolutely love it. Looking forward to the Allietore! journey with you.
Ooh, Love your colors Vireya! I'm a Easy Angle Gal myself, Ha.
Colours, sizes, metric units - and I thought I liked to mix it up! Have a great journey!
Love your colors. I like the way many change colors, but I find it difficult to make fabric changes when sewing Bonnies mystery. I suppose it is because I am no good at making decissions :)
Lovely job Vireya!
Love it all! I'm using the magic 8 method myself..and am loving it! Happy Quilting!
Looks fantastic!
Such a wide variety of neutrals and I like your substitute for Bonnie's gray!! That is the beginning of a lovely cozy quilt.
I love your colours and the fact that you changed the size as well as the number of units.
Pascale, UK
Looking forward to seeing it come together with all your changes! Love the color...close to my copper!
Congratulations on being #1. I notice others are using similar colours to you, it looks great.
Looks good. Looking forward to seeing your other fabrics.
Thanks for sharing how you made the changes - I love hearing how everyone makes it their own!
What a nifty change w/Magic 8 method - may have to give this a try on a future quilt...Thanks for sharing!
Have FUN ;-)
~Deb
Great idea for the magic 8 adaptation! Makes getting a variety a lot easier.
Thanks for sharing your size adjustment. I'd often wondered how complicated it would be to change inches to centimeters in quiltmaking.
Love to see how you are changing the pattern and I really like your warm brown constant fabric
I really like the color you are using instead of grey and it will be fun to see how big your quilt ends up!
I like your color palette for the mystery and your ingenious way of getting more variety into your HSTs.
Nice colour choice. good luck with the next step. You were quick off the mark Monday!
Yours HTS are looking good, great colours I resist as much as I can to join in...By now I am also making only 50% of the size of the original quilt, Hugs
these look great. I like the fabric for the darker blocks.
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