Quilting Along

I know, I know, I said I was trying to catch up on all those oldies, but what’s a girl to do when there are all these wonderful quilt-alongs popping up in cyber space? Well, I just had to jump on board for the ‘Secret Santa Sew Along’ mystery quilt that was happening over on Temecula Quilt Co.’s blog and I’ve truly enjoyed the lovely distraction it has provided over the past few weeks.

Week one

Week two

Week three

Week four

At first I tried to resist, but after seeing how sweet the blocks looked I did a little shopping in my own reproduction fabric stash and came up with a nice selection of reds and greens. Week one had us making little puss in the corner blocks with the greens and neutrals. When week two’s instructions called for approximately a million little nine patches I started to have my doubts about continuing on with the project but I persevered right through to week three where things slowed down a bit. As the units were accumulating, I became even more intrigued by what the mystery was going to reveal and on week number five thing started to come together…

Beautiful blocks

Oh, joyful quilty bliss!!! I love these little blocks even though there are almost one hundred tiny pieces of fabric sewn together to make one block. It is soooo worth it and I’m sooo happy that I joined in. I’ve somewhat stayed with the extreme scrappy look but for the pieces required to fill in the blocks I’ve gotten a little more consistent/ ‘controlled scrappy’ within each block. The one unfinished block with the darker center just wasn’t doing it for me so I unpicked it and tried another lighter fabric in its place. I’m much happier with the lighter choice but I’m going to keep you in suspense until this little lovely is finally finished.

Four blocks out of twelve

As of this morning I have completed ten of the required twelve blocks and this Friday the quilt top finishing instructions will be revealed. I can’t wait! I still have quite a few red nine patches left over so I’m guessing that the quilt will go together in a traditional Burgoyne’s Surround setting. What a wonderful little quilt to display for Christmas. Thank you, Temecula Quilt Co.

Hugs, carol