Puzzler Block #2

 Our little social group met yesterday morning and over breakfast, the next block in the Puzzler series was selected. Here's mine. I think it looks pretty good along side the first block:

Giddyup!

Quilted, bound, and labeled, "Giddyup" is now ready to be donated to our guild's charity project. Sandi Wagner, of Sew Fine Quilting, quilted this with a cowboy motif pantograph. There are bucking broncos, cowboy hats, and cowboy boots in among the swirls and loops of this fun pattern. The back is pieced from leftover chunks of plaid fabric that I am trying very hard to get rid of.  I will also make a pillow case of similar fabrics to hold the quilt.

Here is a second one made of plaids for the same charity project. I will quilt this one myself.

Another homely (in my opinion) quilt top that some young boy will be able to cuddle up with.

Progress

Lazy Sunday mystery quilt by Bonnie Hunter. The green and white half square triangle borders are completed. Today I will sew them on. I have the outermost border, portion seen below, partially made and hope to finish them today. Maybe this will be finished by tomorrow!

Vintage Bow Tie Quilt

Several years ago, I bought two vintage quilt tops off eBay. This is one of them that I "rescued." It was quite dirty, although otherwise well-pieced. It is pieced by hand but I added the blue border and the outermost white one by machine. I spent several hours yesterday and today pressing it and marking it for the church hand quilting group that will quilt it for me in several weeks' time.

Lazy Sunday Detour

I am making a detour from working on the turtle quilt, although this morning I finished removing the paper from the turtle shells. This is Lazy Sunday, another Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt, which ran this year in Quiltmaker magazine. The final steps were revealed a few weeks ago and I decided to go ahead and assemble the quilt top. I want this top finished and ready for the longarm quilter before jumping into Bonnie's next mystery quilt, due to start in November over at her blog. This is another big one, rectangular in shape rather than square like Easy Street.

Easy Street Finished!

400+ inches of binding sewn down! Easy Street is finished. Easy Street was the 2012 Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt. I stuck pretty close to Bonnie's colors but the photo does not do justice to the beautiful colors in this quilt. It was quilted by Sandi Wagner of SewFine Quilting in a fun, funky, fresh new design that perfectly complements the geometric nature of the piecing.

                                       

Here is a somewhat better picture of the quilting which also shows the borders. The turquoise and green batik was a lucky find. If you click on the photo it will enlarge and you will have a better view of the quilting pattern.

One Down, Seven to Go

These are turning out to be more work than I expected. Maybe I can get a second one finished tonight. There are supposed to be embroidered eyes but I think that won't happen. They look okay the way they are and I am not looking for more work on these.