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Clues #4, #5, & #6 Progress {Frolic Mystery Quilt} from Little Bunny Quilts

While I am going to talk about three clues today, I'm actually only done with one out of the three!

When we got home after Christmas, I had some time to do the cutting for both Clue #4 and Clue #5.

For Clue #4, our assignment was to cut pieces and parts for HSTs and for triangle parts to be used later. I had plenty of my navy fabric and my dark teal fabrics for my required number of sets, however I only had enough aqua fabrics for about 75% of the required number of sets. I will need ...

added by Alison V. 4 years, 11 months ago. under controlled scrappy , frolic , scrap quilts , scraps

Scrapping Around {Jingle Bell Square} from Little Bunny Quilts

In the month of December, I was using my Jingle Bell Square blocks and block parts as leaders-and-enders for my Frolic unit sewing and my "I only have 15 minutes to sew" project. Now that it is the new year, I decided to pack up this project temporarily to clean up my sewing space slightly.

Since I last posted about this project in mid-November, I picked up a few Christmas-y fat quarters and fat eights at the quilt shop and made seven blocks between then and January 1st.

I made four green and three red blocks this round -- which means ...

added by Alison V. 4 years, 11 months ago. under addicted to scraps , controlled scrappy , jingle bell square , scrap quilts

Clue #3 Progress {Frolic Mystery Quilt} from Little Bunny Quilts

When I did the cutting for Clue #2, I did the cutting for Clue #3 as well. Thanks to weekend movie watching, I had all of the diagonals drawn on my background fabric squares in short order.

This is the first unit where I actually used my scrappy fabrics! Rather than mixing both my teal and my dark blue fabrics for this unit, I used only the scrappy dark teal fabrics.

I used seven different dark teal fabrics, a few of which were leftover from the Cotton + Steel half-yards I used for my Pineapple Quilt. There are actually two different ...

added by Alison V. 5 years ago. under controlled scrappy , frolic , scrap quilts , scraps

Mosaic Mystery Quilt {Gaggle of Gooses} from Little Bunny Quilts

I guess that this week just happens to be "mystery quilt catch up week" before my holiday travels!

I was also able to squeeze in the December clues for the Mosaic Mystery Quilt. The directions for December are actually a conglomeration of a few different flying geese and flying geese-esque units.

There are right and left facing half flying geese in two different color combinations, three sets of full flying geese units, and a few half square triangles.

Because I am using fat quarter cuts for my Fabric B and Fabric C choices (burgundies and pinks), I made my half ...

added by Alison V. 5 years ago. under controlled scrappy , flying geese , mosaic mystery quilt

Clue #2 Progress {Frolic Mystery Quilt} from Little Bunny Quilts

Mystery quilt season is in full swing and I am *already* behind!

Clue #2 came out on December 6th. Things have been busy outside of my sewing room so I didn't even get my strips cut for my units until this weekend and I did all of the cutting for Clue #2 and Clue #3 at the same time.

This was another clue for me using my non-scrappy fabrics. It was very quick to zip together my strip sets.

It was also quick to sub-cut all of these units two at a time. I cut a couple more units ...

added by Alison V. 5 years ago. under controlled scrappy , frolic , scrap quilts , scraps

Clue #1 Progress {Frolic Mystery Quilt} from Little Bunny Quilts

The long wait was over on Friday morning -- the first clue of Bonnie Hunter's annual mystery quilt was released! At the beginning of November, I shared my fabric choices:

Unlike many lucky people, I had to work on Black Friday, so I spent the day chomping at the bit to get home and start on Clue #1.

For Clue #1, we were tasked with making a pile of four patches using our blues and raspberry fabrics. My coral dot print replaces the raspberry scraps and instead of using both my dark blue and dark teal, I just used the ...

added by Alison V. 5 years ago. under controlled scrappy , frolic , scrap quilts , scraps

Faceted Churn Dash {Finished Wall Hanging} from Little Bunny Quilts

If you are in our Honey, Bunny, and Doll FB group, you've seen all of the progress on this wall hanging!

I hosted a "casual QAL" for our Faceted pattern collection on FB this fall -- it was a lot of fun to do something from an already written pattern rather than a brand new pattern and it's something I will do again!

Returning back to the beginning, I cut the majority of the scraps used in this project using my Accuquilt cutter.

A lot of half-square triangles later, I incrementally made the pieces and parts for this quilt ...

added by Alison V. 5 years, 1 month ago. under accuquilt , controlled scrappy , faceted collection , finished projects , free motion quilting , hbd patterns , machine quilting , scrap quilts , scraps , wall hangings

Christmas is Coming {Jingle Blocks} from Little Bunny Quilts

Since I have my Island Batik Ambassador project done for the month (but make sure to enter the giveaway!) I decided that I should try to make a push on some of my WIPs before the end of the year.

I also need to work on my scrap and stash organization, so I pulled out the bag of leftover fabrics from my April Showers quilt, and pulled out all of the green and red fabrics to use in some Jingle Bell Square blocks.

This project has kind of been a boom and bust project -- I work on it until I ...

added by Alison V. 5 years, 1 month ago. under addicted to scraps , controlled scrappy , jingle bell square , scrap quilts , scraps

Stash Sorting {Frolic Mystery Quilt} from Little Bunny Quilts

This weekend, after putting the binding on my blog hop quilts for tomorrow, I started pulling fabrics for the upcoming mystery quilt hosted by Bonnie Hunter -- FROLIC!

This year's colors for the mystery quilt are inspired by fields of flowers and I have modified my color scheme slightly to better fit my scraps.

Here's the suggested colors and my replacements:

Dark blue --- Navy tone on tone scraps

Medium blue --- Dark teal scraps

Raspberry --- Coral yardage

Light aqua --- Light aqua scraps

Neutrals --- White on white print yardage (not pictured)

Green --- Golden yellow scraps

For the first two mystery quilts ...

added by Alison V. 5 years, 1 month ago. under controlled scrappy , frolic , scrap quilts , scraps

Little Lady Quilt {Finished Baby Quilt} from Little Bunny Quilts

I have a finish to share today, and I'm going to embarrass myself in the process!

I have been in a major "sort it, use it, organize it, clear it out" mood with my sewing room and quilting supplies. Before we moved, I did not get to to the reorganization and purge that I envisioned -- because we moved up our moving date, everything went from the shelves and bins straight to the moving boxes and then back on the shelves.

So imagine my surprise when I was looking for something else and I found this baby quilt top at ...

added by Alison V. 5 years, 1 month ago. under baby quilt , controlled scrappy , finished projects , free motion quilting , jelly roll jam 2 , scrap quilts , strip piecing

Progress Potpourri {Borders, Blocks, and Batting} from Little Bunny Quilts

I didn't have a ton of motivation (or time) to sew this weekend, but I did manage to get a few productive things done, even if it wasn't just finishing a quilt.

First, I made bias binding from a fat quarter and added it to a baby quilt that I quilted *last* week. I am hand stitching the binding by hand, so expect that finish later this week or early next week.

Next, I used the backing cut-offs from the aforementioned baby quilt as the (first) border of my Ribbons quilt.

I maximized the width of border I ...

added by Alison V. 5 years, 2 months ago. under baby quilt , christmas ribbons , controlled scrappy , hobbs batting , radiant jewel quilt , scrap quilts

Stretching Scraps {Christmas Ribbons} from Little Bunny Quilts

When I posted my Not Quite Christmas Ribbons quilt last week, I was trying to decide what else to do with the quilt.

I did some quilty math and figured out that I could squeeze out enough units to add half blocks on each side of the quilt, but not enough to make full blocks to make it a square quilt. Adding blocks on both sides instead of one side allowed for the secondary designs in the quilt to be symmetrical throughout the quilt.

Here are my half units:

Except that sewing these all into units was the wrong move ...

added by Alison V. 5 years, 2 months ago. under christmas ribbons , controlled scrappy , scrap quilts , scraps

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