Good Fortune Mystery quilt

I got started today on Bonnie Hunter's Good Fortune Mystery Quilt. Here are a few of my 4 patches.

You can join in this mystery quilt by getting her instructions from her blog. 

See link at bottom of this post.

More strips cut and ready to sew.

Miles of chain pieced strips.

Pairing and cutting them and placing them on a dollar store poster board so I can take them to my sewing machine. I have lots more to cut. Please visit Bonnie's link up to see more inspiration and maybe start your own Good Fortune. Just click on the link below. 

 https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2018/11/mystery-monday-link-up-and-cyber-monday.html

Temecula Secret Santa Mystery with borders

The blocks of the Mystery quilt with the sashing added.

The sashing is all words. The instructions called for sashing and then just binding. But I thought it needed something more.

So I added a red border. Still wasn't happy with it. So I added a 10 inch border to that.

This turned out to be a Twin size quilt.  So I'm calling this quilt "Santa crisscrossing the snowy sky".

These Santa Heads are large and I didn't want to cut them off so that is why I kept the border extra large. I have enough of the Santa fabric to use on the back.

Good Fortune quilt along

This is my fabric pull for the 2018 Mystery quilt by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com blog.

She hosts a new Mystery quilt every year starting on Black Friday.

  This one is called "Good Fortune". She gives you color suggestions and amounts. I changed the colors to what I had on hand. It's going to be a vibrant spring quilt.

These are my neutrals which are all in the light gray family. Most of them are super old. I'm glad I'll be using them and getting them out of my stash. 

Christmas Cactus Finish

I quilted this one with the Seasons design from Anne Bright. It's a gorgeous design. This quilt has been waiting for 4 years to get quilted. I'm glad I waited to find the perfect design.

I used a green and red variegated thread.  This design takes a lot of thread! I think I went through at least 16 bobbins. It took about 8 hours to quilt this thing.

Here is the back using a cuddle type fabric from Joann's. The quilting shows up fantastic on the back. I used a solid red thread in the bobbin.

Temecula Secret Santa Mystery quilt

These are 4 patches that I made for the Temecula Secret Santa Mystery Quilt.

These are the 12 blocks that I just finished today. I put them on the design wall with the extra 9 patches as corner stones.

I won't have the final instructions for this quilt until Friday. I think it needs more color. It's very boring looking. If the sashing is going to be whites then I will add a Christmas fabric as the border to brighten things up.

Midnight Clear Progress

Here are 3 of the blocks from Midnight Clear.

Here are the 12 blocks together. The sashing for this quilt is very intense. I think it's going to take me a while. I have to cut hundreds of squares at one and a half inches!

Midnight Clear quilt

I just started this quilt this week. The quilt calls for 12 blocks. Two of each design.

I didn't want to make them with the exact same fabrics. I switched them up a bit but used the same colors in the same spots.

I'm using what's left of a Fat Quarter bundle from Deb Strain called "Christmas Countdown" from several years ago. I used this bundle for my Christmas Cactus quilt that I am going to quilt next.

Here's the book that I am using.  Funnily enough this quilt was used as a block of the month quilt along for quilt shops. I can see why. So many pieces to cut for each block!! The black fabrics make the blocks pop!

Temecula Secret Santa Mystery part 3

These are the blocks for part 3 of the Temecula Secret Santa Mystery quilt.

Here are all of the pieces together so far.

I'm trying to keep better track of the quilts that I make. I'm using this regular spiral bound notebook and some washi tape and stamps that I've had for a few years. I used to do a lot of scrapbooking at one time. I still use the supplies to make cards as needed. I just started this book so here's the first page with instructions for this quilt. I'm especially trying to keep track of the finishes for each year. So far I have finished 40 or so projects for 2018. They are not all posted on blog. I need to get on that!