Nana Loves Quilting and Vintage

Trying to come up with a translation of Hope to a quilting project was my challenge this week. Project quilting is a fun idea by persimmon dreams quilt ing to try and get you to think beyond what you would normally do in a quilting project. I'm not a art quilter, I'm  I'm definitely a traditional quilt maker but I wanted to try and participate the best way I could. So hope for me is something that I always want to have in my heart and in my life but I also understand that sometimes the things we hope for don't always come to pass. I chose to create a representation of a cancer ribbon combining the blue of all cancers the blue of colon cancer and the lavender or purple of all other cancers. My mother recently dealt with cancer of her colon but we were very blessed that it was found in a place that was easy to treat and even without taking chemotherapy it was still done with surgery and very successfully. I'm hoping that I will still have my mother around for many y...

Bonnie popped in on her blog to post not only a quick quilt cam but also a little intermediate clue. Getting us ready for the reveal that showed up on the final Friday of Clues. Click on the link and you can see where so many of the Quilters for partaking of the mystery have gone with their reveal information. https://bit.ly/2AxNTDE The reveal was everything I had hoped for a wonderful quilt even though I changed all of my colors for my own purposes it still turned out great! My substitutes worked out just fine. Makes me almost wish I decided to do the whole quilt instead of just a portion. I didn't get a chance to do all the blocks I did as many as I could in a couple of days with all the regular activity around our house. When I took the picture it kind of turned out a little bit crooked and definitely I didn't hang it up correctly but, gives a good idea of what I've got in store. As I was doing the pressing VOILA I remembered I had this little tiny iron that I pur...

Oh my, we're already at clue number 6! Some wonderful string piecing of your neutral Fabrics was Bonnie clue. Since I have been working with one neutral for the rest of the clues I thought since I'd already pulled them, I would work in scrappy neutrals. I decided instead of string piecing on a foundation I would go with strip piecing but make sure there's plenty of variety. And because I didn't get a chance to show my finished clue number 5 last week I added those to this picture post. Follow along with all the other Quilters as they discover what Good Fortune is going to turn out to look like? https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2018/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-6.html Inspiration for these Fabrics it's not very hard to figure out. The sandy beaches that surrounded us as we visited Oahu. One thing that made this particular clue a bit of a problem was that on Christmas Eve we had a sewer flood back up in my laundry area which is just a part of my sewi...

It's the day before Christmas and all through my house lots of creatures are storing but not any Mouse.  Nana is down by her sewing machine trying to get this clue done! Follow along with dozens more quilters https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2018/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-5.html Alas, I miss cut which slowed me down I'm still not exactly sure what happened however I've tried to make it work and I think it will. I used two rulers that were already in my supplies those offered by Kaye England. The only unfortunate thing was that I picked up the wrong ruler to cut the large triangles, which ended up leaving bias on the outside  of the triangles that I cut from the strips . Well dang , a whole pile ended up being too small. But that's okay I just recut and now I have to finish up this clue. Those on the cutting table upside down are the ones I need to trim up to try and see if I can salvage them. Hey you can always find an open door when that window gets clos...

As many people had already speculated there's some string piecing going on in this project. Of course Bonnie being who she is, gave people options you could traditionally string piece onto very thin paper. You could strip piece without using any paper. You can just cut the cop out version which is rectangles of the correct size in different fabrics in the orange family which is Bonnie's color for this clue. This is where my greens will come in... lots and lots of different colors of green anything from a very blue green a very light happy limey green or a nice medium green or even a deep dark Hunter forest green.  Whenever I teach a class that using greens or when people ask can you put this green with that green I always tell them of course! All you have to do is look at nature All Greens go together :-) Indeed while we were in Hawaii there were many many shades and tints and tones of green and they all looked beautiful altogether. Follow the progress of many quilters by t...

Oh dear it's the dreaded half chevrons! Okay, could be worse could be those long-legged pointed triangles. These were not actually not too bad. More information on Bonnie Hunter' s blog https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2018/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-3.html I decided to use my Folded Corners ruler and it pretty much went exactly as it was supposed to. You probably can't tell from the pictures but I am scaling down the size of a quilt unless it's something that I really really really love. Since I have been substituting my color scheme this clue, which in Bonnie's quilt was Greens (which I will be using later) I chose to use yellow to represent the beautiful sunshine and some of the lovely hibiscus flowers. Amazing though what I thought would be plenty of contrast because my background is supposed to represent the Sandy Beach I'm not so sure I got enough contrast with some of my yellows. And along with that my yellows turned out to be in short supply so...

Oh, goody! Half Square triangles were the next clue,number two. Luckily I know how to make them using paper as my guidelines. Just cut your fabric pieces to size, sew on the dotted lines, cut on the solid lines. Of course you have to remove the paper and press but you have to press no matter which method you end up using don't you? These turned out perfectly using my various tints, tones and shades of blue. aqua and teal. I saw so many incredibly beautiful Blues in the ocean when we were in Hawaii. Taking pictures doesn't always give you true colors but I figured there were so many different blues I wasn't going to miss any of them!  Howard's attempts to find unbroken shells  Alex found a few too  Pardon the finger