Welcome to Day 2 of The Shades of Blue Sew It, Show It Challenge starts hosted by the amazing Carla @Creatin In the Sticks. Thanks so much to Carla for letting me join in this fun challenge. Blue happens to be one of my favorite colors, and I knew I had to join. When the subject of this challenge first came up, I already had a project in mind. I had planned to make the daughter of a friend of our family a wedding quilt, and I had chosen Bonnie Hunter's digital pattern called Winter Blues. While I knew I wouldn't get the whole quilt top made, I thought I could get a great portion of it done. This quilt measures 81 x 95 inches.
I am making this entirely out of scraps I had in my cut-up strip containers, and scraps I had not yet cut up.
As of Saturday night I had the 120-16 patches, measuring 4.5 inches made, the 99 9-patches, I had the setting triangles and corners made, along with the sashings and cornerstones cut out. My kitchen counter looked like this:
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I worked on assembling it 2 full days. One half is done, and I started working on the second half. There is also a braided border out of blues.
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So that is my Shades if Blue Challenge. The digital pattern can be found here at Quiltville. It is 25% off until 1/31/23.
The entire schedule is listed below, check out what everyone else has made.
Monday, January 23rd
Tuesday, January 24th
Wednesday, January 25th
Thursday, January 26th
Thanks for stopping by!
Oh, Karrin, what a beauty that quilt is! A lot of work, but your blues are perfect for it, and I love how it's coming together. What a blessed young woman she is to receive this beautiful gift from you.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt in blues!
ReplyDeleteWow that's a lot of cutting and sewing and it is looking gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThat is gorgeous! I had to laugh when I read your post. I spent last week cutting up scraps for a Bonnie Hunter quilt here. But I must say your counter top looks 100 times better than mine did! LOL!! I love sewing up Bonnie's patterns. It brings great joy to my heart to make something out of scraps.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lot of sewing you have already completed for this quilt Karrin, and it will be a very special finish.
ReplyDeleteWow gorgeous quilt!
ReplyDeleteit looks great! neat you can work on this outside with it blowing away
ReplyDeleteI do love Bonnie's quilts even though they have a gazillion small pieces. Yours is spot-on and blue is perfect for this hop and for the color, too.
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous. It is nice that you were inspired by the hop and that you will soon have a very gorgeous quilt!
ReplyDeleteThis is incredibly beautiful, especially the small pieces and knowing it is all from scraps. Wow, you really rocked the blue challenge! This will be such an amazing wedding gift.
ReplyDeleteWow! You are really rocking this hop!! Your quilt will be a beauty! ~Sandie@crazy'boutquilts
ReplyDeleteOh, Karrin, you are so ambitious but the reward will be great. The two halves are so pretty and it will be a show stopper for sure. Thanks for the link to the pattern.
ReplyDeleteBonnie Hunter quilts are a LOT of work!!! TONS of tiny pieces. I'm very happy that you showed us your quilt in progress! It promises to be absolutely beautiful!!! And how great it is that you are using your scraps!
ReplyDeleteThis is turning out fantastic!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great quilt! I love the scrappy look; can't wait to see it when you've finished.
ReplyDeleteLovely progress on your quilt! I've got that pattern waiting its turn to be made.
ReplyDeleteI am a fan of blue too and I love your creation :)
ReplyDeleteI am totally impressed with all those squares you are using in your quilt. It is going to be really neat! Sew glad you shared!
ReplyDeleteKarin it's beautiful! I can't believe you are so fast.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful! All those squares. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shades of blue! I have the same quilt pattern on my to do list! Jo sent me😻tobyyellow@yahoo.com
ReplyDeletePretty blue quilt Karrin. So many little pieces and you sewed them perfectly.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt! I would never have the patience to complete that pattern. You are doing a great job.
ReplyDeleteWow, it's gorgeous!! Love that you've used so many scraps! xx
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