Like many quilter's across the country, I eagerly awaited Black Friday morning and the release of the first clue for "On Ringo Lake." For those not familiar with the mystery, go on over to the Quiltville website and check out the Mystery Quilt!
The recommended colors are neutrals, brown, corals and teals. I am going with that colorway with the exception that I am substituting a constant grey for the scrappy browns, and also using a constant neutral for the scrappy ones. While I like scrappy quilts, there is a limit to the scrappiness that I prefer. Having a constant or two in there, helps calm things down I think.
Clue 1 sewed up pretty quickly. Fifty nine patch blocks were done before the first weekend closed. So, feeling quite accomplished, I decided to make a second quilt in a Christmas colorway. In this one I went with the total scrappiness....hoping it will all work out!
Started working on Clue 2 yesterday at an open sew of our Guild meeting. While there are many methods for making flying geese, I prefer the "No Waste" method that uses a large square and 4 smaller squares. If you google, no waste flying geese you will find a "gaggle" of tutorials and videos that describe this method. Here is one at Patch Pieces. There are also charts that prefigure the sizes if you are math averse. For this project I used a 4 1/4 inch large square and 2 3/8 inch smaller squares.
That was it for the weekend, will have to tuck in some other sewing time to finish before Friday!
