After a short break over Christmas and the New Year AND emergency Nanna duties I am finally back home and have completed Steps and 4 of the mystery quilt - Orca. This is Bonnie's name for the quilt - have still to make up mind what I will call it (could be 'my mojo gone mad').
Step 3 consisted of making 350 pairs (that's right 350) of half-square traingle units sewn to make a 2" finished square. This is the pile after being 'dog-eared' and pressed (Bonnie likes you to trim them off...) Oh well, definitely going to need new blades for my cutters when this is finished......
Step 4 was a tad easier cutting wise, but still a sewing marathon.
At long last we are going to use our reds, but first we had to cut (that word again!!!) 64 x 5.5" foundation paper squares. The sewing marathon - that is sewing our red strips or crumbs, onto these papers to make the string blocks. When this stitching was completed, then trim the blocks back to the 5.5" and then slice in half. My finished pile of string triangles:
This quilt is certainly an interesting mystery - haven't yet seen any hint of where all these gazzilion piles are going.
But onward we go - focus on completing all instructions and I will have a beautiful quilt.
2 comments:
Looking forward to seeing the finished quilt top Joy. Orca - black and white, wonder if it has anything to do with whales.
You are certainly following your word 'focus', Joy!!
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