Allietare - Monday Mystery linkup Part 5

Link up time for Part 5 of Bonnie Hunter's Allietare Mystery Quilt. Follow this link back  http://bit.ly/1UdyGZq to see everyone else's progress

I am far from finished this step. I hadn't finished all my Step 1 HST so had to play catch up on those to start this step. So many of the sub units are still on the ironing board waiting to be ironed. The week isn't done yet though, LOL.  

Part 3 with it's gold and neutral 4 patches is completed.  This was where I started the mystery because it was the clue that was live when I came home from holiday

Part 4 (long, oh so long) is completed.  I love these little bow tie type units.  I think they would make a great border for some sampler blocks I have sitting around.

You know when you're making a mystery quilt there's always a fabric choice that you think "hmmmm, I wonder how that's going to work out"?  Well with Allietare mine is the grey.  So because I'm contemplating my choice of grey fabric here's a grey photo from my recent holiday.  It's taken at the Koutu Boulders in the Hokianga Harbour on Northland's west coast.

Off to sew...

Allietare - just starting out

I've just come back from a road trip so I'm  late starting on Bonnie Hunter's 2015 mystery quilt, which is called Allietare.   I love making Bonnie's mystery quilts over the holidays and had lots of fun on Grand Illusion last year.  I have my fabrics ready to go for Allietare so tomorrow I think I'll make a start with Clue 3 and then work from from there on new clues and catch-up.

 

Even though I haven't made my first cut yet I wanted to link up and say "I'm in".  Check out Bonnie's blog and the link up to see the progress other participants are making here

This is going to be fun!

97, 99, 100

Sampler blocks are DONE.  Waahoo!!!  Time to play with laying them out.

Hold on, something is wrong with picture  and I don't mean the tabby cat having a wash on  the blocks, or the poor quality photo.  Do you see that gap in bottom right hand corner?  How can that be.  Where is my 100th block? Don't tell me it's back to the sewing machine.

Today is an orange kinda day

A little bit of stash enhancement meant I could make progress on the orange blocks for my sampler.  Isn't that daisy print the prettiest thing?  After counting, recounting, ticking blocks off the list and recounting again, I think I only have 3 blocks to go. 

Little blocks keep coming

You can tell I'm playing catch up with this project now because the block colours are all mixed up. I'm starting to count down... only 9 blocks to go.  I just need to find some orange fabric for the orange section.

Back into it

After a break I'm getting back into my Rainbow Scrap Sampler - the 2014 one!!  Catching up on some brown and black blocks today.  Clockwise tfrom top left they are Sarah's Choice, Prairie Queen, Contrary Wife and Chevrons.   I still seem to have about 15 or so blocks to make to finish the 100.  This includes all the orange ones (about the place where I came unstuck with the project and stopped working on it), the light blues, and a few others 'here and there'.    I really want to get these down and play with setting them.

Feet up

I have my feet up for a few days with a sprained ankle so I'm binding a quilt and listening to podcasts. This project is a long time UFO. It's a scrappy Bargello using Bonnie Hunter's free pattern.