Clue One of Bonnie Hunter's Old Town Mystery Is Complete

I'm happy to have completed clue one of the Bonnie Hunter 2024 quilt along, Old Town Mystery.  All my units were Accuquilt cut.  It was fun digging through the blue scraps and finding just the right size scrap to use.  All units have a different fabric for the aqua and the neutral.  That's scrapilicious!

Below you see them patiently waiting for their red/neutral friends from clue two to arrive.  I am following along with the suggested color scheme this year.  I can't wait to see all the different color arrangements of my quilty/bloggy friends.

Unity Day!

Woohoo.  Again I know what day of the week it is.  It's Unity QA day with Bonnie Hunter!  Bring on clue #5.  I finished Clue #4 late Sunday.

I swapped out the stars for churn dashes.  It took me two days to wrap my head around how I would do those stars with the neutrals and I couldn't find a combo that worked for me this round.  In my opinion, you can't go wrong with churn dashes!

It Must Be Monday -- Unity QA Time!

I definitely know what day Monday is!  It's time for the next clue of Bonnie Hunter's Unity QA post!  I got up early and put on my "uniform" -- you know... the same clothes I've been wearing every other day, clean out of the laundry basket? 

Anywho... I got up early to finish Clue #3.  I LOVE it!  I love my soft-looking neutrals!  Can't wait for the next round!  Mask making is on hold for now.

Unity -- Moving It Forward Monday

I really look forward to the clue that comes out each Monday on Bonnie Hunter's blog, Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!  Here's my first two rounds of the Unity quilt.

The first round I haphazardly let the neutrals fall where they may.  This round I did grey centers for the square-in-a-square blocks and paid careful attention to the light and dark neutrals to make the star points.

I love the soft effect of all these low-volume prints EXCEPT that cow print.  I am ripping that one out and replacing it with something more soothing.  When I have the piece on the floor now it looks like someone spilled ink on it.

There, the shouting out loud culprit has been removed.

This looks so much better.  Ahhhh.

I also like the inner border I used on clue 2.  It's little hunting dogs.  :)

Unity -- A Sew In Place QA with Bonnie Hunter Part 1

This morning I couldn't sleep.  No, not because of the problems of the world, but because a certain 12 year old was up and walking around the house with his flashlight because the bulb burnt out in his Spiderman light... 

I got up for a bit and finished sewing the medallion center of my Unity QA quilt with Bonnie Hunter.

I have decided that I'm not going to pick fabrics or worry about color placements so much on this quilt.  I am working from my neutrals scrap bin.  I did use the same fabric to frame the medallion center.  I love it already!  That's what matters.  I know I'm adding a new project to my long list, but I am just being tugged to play along with this QA.  We're all in this together.

You can find the instructions for this on Bonnie's blog, Quiltville's Quips & Snips.

Blue Scraps -- Good Fortune, Clue 2 -- The Accuquilt Way

Bonnie Hunter at Quiltville Quips & Snips was gracious again this year to share another fun mystery quilt with us.  The mystery quilt this year is called Good Fortune.  Check out all the fun quilters that linked up on Bonnie's blog here.

Here are a few of my Good Fortune, Clue 2 blocks.  Yes, that is millennium fabric!

 

The faded yellow towel belonged to my aunt.  It's perfect for pressing next to my sewing machine.

 

Let me show you part of my Accuquilt process.

This week we played with our blue scraps.  I'm an Accuquilt girl.  I love scraps.  Sometimes friends just give me a bag of scraps!  They end up in bins sorted by color like this:

Here are four of the totes somewhat sorted into blues of different shades.  And yes, they are on our six-foot trampoline that is in my longarm room.  (It's easy to use the bins and our son can have fun.)

 

I pull out some of the scraps using my color card from Lowe's.  These look good to me.

 

 

Here's how I have my ironing board and Accuquilt set up.  I have my stip die in the photo as well.  I'll be cutting strips and storing them in the plastic art bin that I got at Walmart.  I'll be watching the movie "The House" as I work.  I'll be done cutting all my triangles for this week by the time the movie is done. :)

 

 

Some fabrics I just done get.  Look at this fun "blue" fabric.  It will be perfect all cut up.  Look at the different animal sets?  Is it Noah's Ark fabric from VIP?  There are two of each animal... but some are mom's and babies...  there are zoo animals and farm animals...  It's just fun.  Wonder why someone threw it out of their collection.  Hmm.  LOL. 

 

Pull from the bin, press, pile onto the die (6 layers or less), crank and throw into the bin.  Take them to the sewing machine and chain piece.  In no time at all you have a bin full of HST's sewn into squares.  The way the HST's are cut there are no dog ears to trim!  Some of my scraps I only had enough to make one HST.  There is tons of variety in this quilt.  (LOVE!!!)

 

 

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