First Grand Illusion Blocks and a New Front Door

I am fixing to head out to my Modern Quilt Guild Christmas Party.  We have dinner somewhere in town and exhcange some fat quarters.

I finished all 280 of the teal and pink HSTs and made three of the  Broken Dishes blocks.  Man, they are wee blocks!  And just think, only 97 to go!  LOL.  Tomorrow.

He will come tomorrow and put in the glass screen door.  then I will have someone come and put glare film on the door, the side lights and the front windows. 

My house sits at a T in the road.  And the sun sets at the end of the T.  So the front of the house has full on sun for most of the day.  I need solar panels up on the roof!

In the summertime it is hot!  I will have to get a photo of the door closed for you.  It really is a beautiful door.  I am so excited it is finally going in

Grand Illusions - Bonnie Hunter Mystery Work

280.  That's right, 280 is the operative number for today.

I have always said, I look at a pattern and if I see anything that says 200 of something, I put that pattern down!  So here I am, doing 280 of something!

And in all my  quilting glory, you know I have to mess something up.  And the 280 is no exception!

Although I have to say it was written in such a way that one could easily misread it.  And that is what I did.  Bonnie makes an assumption that you are using the EasyAngle Ruler and just casually mentions -- oh, yeah, if you are not using the Easy Angle, do it some other way.

I had a lot of strips that were 2 1/2 inches and that is what I used...in a way I thought the Easy Angle worked.  Obviously not. 

So now I have 280 of the 2 inch blocks......so my  quilt will be a bit smaller.  Not a problem, I like them a bit smaller than 89 x 89 anyway.

 This is what 200 HSTs look like.  And I am going to work on the other 80 to get them done.  We also have to make a Broken Dishes block .... actually we need to make 100 Broken Dishes Blocks.


So let me get to work.

glen

Stash Report 10-12-14

I really need to figure out how to balance the color in my camera.  These really are off.  Aughhh!  Aggravating, really.


I decided that I would do the Bonnie Hunter Winter Mystery this Year.   I wanted to last year and farted around and never did.  And I loved it!  So this year I am doing it.

She gave out the fabric amounts and colors this week so I went to Lowe's this afternoon and got the paint chips she is using.  I really like the colors.  Very bright and potentially modern.

Saturday night I gathered what I had in hopes it would be a "no buying" quilt.  And I think it mostly will be so.  I may need a few more pieces of turquoise but I think I have the other colors covered.
They are based upon her visit to the Grand Hotel in the Carolinas.
The yellow, which looks like orange here, is a single fabric that is the one that ties things together.  

The ones I do not show are the very little white on black and the neutrals.  I have tons of both of those.

Greens without a yellow cast and the turquoise is also without a yellow cast. It was genius to give us the paint chip numbers.  I found it very useful to pull fabrics that were the right tones.

For the Stash Report, still using but not much this week.

I was finishing up the Dr. Seuss quilts and not working on anything more this week. 

Used this week	-3		Used this month	-4.83	used this year	-113.33
bought this week	0		bought this month	0	bought this year	180.75
plus or minus	-3		plus or minus	-4.83	plus or minus	67.42