So, remember I posted that I was working on the Bonnie K Hunter Mystery Quilt this year. It's called
rhododendron trail.
Well big news! I'm done with it!
Here it is after I got the top together,
Look at all of those flying geese blocks!!
I always forget how much I like the look of blocks set on pint, but don't really like to DO it!
I love the colors I've go going on here.
I did make a bit of a learning mistake. I made the tiny corner blocks on the sashing the dark blue color and it blends right into the green and disappears. Such a waste of time to put them in when they disappear!
Oh well, I quilted it with my walking foot on the baby Lock Lyric. Just followed the diagonal lines. It came out great! I used this cute backing, after DD gave me guilt. I was going to use a bright floral print, and she said it would be aweful....so I caved and went shopping and got this cute fabric from Home Ec in Iowa City.
It has tiny houses with reindeer and snowmen on it. So cute!
Here I'm quilting away-this is a pretty big quilt, something like 100" x 84".
It took some serious muscling it around, but I got it done! I waited a few days for a day when it wasn't quite so cold outside to get an outdoor picture of the whole thing.
Here it is on the muddy, snowy hillside.
You can see the true colors so much better, and you can also see that I used more than one neutral white color.
Oh well, it is what it is.
All in all it was a good quilt, nice big blocks. The Mystery quilt is available for free until Sunday at the
Quiltville Blog. After Sunday, you'll have to buy it.
Now to get it into the washer to get the mud off.
Crinkly goodness after washing, here we come!
Just for comparison, here's Bonnie K Hunter's original Rhododendron Trail completed, and here's mine. Both are really great looking quilts!
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