I am fortunate to have a group of quilting friends who introduced me to Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilts. If you have never heard of them, they are an annual right of passage for quilters around the world. On Halloween, Bonnie releases her theme for that year's project along with fabric requirements and colour inspiration. She then waits for US Thanksgiving to release one clue a week until early in the new year.
These quilts are not for the faint of heart, but you will learn a lot. I know I have!
I mention Bonnie Hunter quilts today for two reasons:
1) The second Bonnie Hunter mystery I've attempted, Frolic, is now got a complete top. The piecing is done. It may be more accurately described as piecing, ripping apart, piecing more, ripping apart more, and so on until I got this:
I can not even begin to say how proud I am of myself on this. This is the largest quilt I have made yet. Now to figure out how to quilt it!!
2) This year's Bonnie Hunter has been announced and the race is on to decide on fabrics. For those new to Bonnie, it is always safest to use her colour recommendations. Some brave souls decide to do a variation on her colour selection. Even though I love her colours this year, I decided I was going to challenge myself to change it up. For inspiration, I used a picture of my father from Christmas's past and I entered into an online tool that would pick out colours in the picture for me. Here is what I got.
I took this to my local quilt shop, and was able to select the following fabrics:
I'm a little scared, but also very excited to take on this challenge. As you'll see in the coming posts, this is one of the three mystery quilts I am undertaking. No one could ever say I wasn't a glutton for this kind of punishment, but I love it and in these days of COVID, quilting is a source of positivity in my life.
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