Tell It To The Stars: Judy's mystery quilt

 

I fell behind with the mystery quilt in august (those edge setting triangles looked very daunting!) but after visiting all the other quilters that HAD completed theirs, I was encouraged that they were not quite as hard as they looked. (I'll agree- they weren't!)

 

so now I'm all caught up, and even a little bit ahead for now!

 

sorry for the odd lighting in the picture- it's the afternoon sun shining through the leaded window in the front door. ( I meant to take a  better picture, but never got around to it, I guess...)

 

and I'm still just as please at how it's turning out- can't remember the final size off hand, but hoping that there are some more beautiful borders to go on...

 

ANDANDAND: I was the lucky winner of Vicki's stash pack last month! I chose Thrive, and I'm looking forward to making it into a baby quilt for a dear friend and her newest little daughter. many enthusiastic thanks to Vicki and Judy for doing this mystery! I can only hope that we'll do another one in 2015!

here's the link to the quilt I made for baby Adalaide

keeping busy... lots of stuff going on!

here are my January through July blocks for Judy and Vicki's mystery- Tell It To The Stars. loving how it's going so far- and the august blocks are some of the setting and corner pieces-and they use more YELLOW! Judy did tell us way back when that color #2 would be the predominant color. I'm excited to see how it's going to start going together.

JUST TO BE CLEAR: I should mention that ALL my blocks are done- they're just pinned on the design wall in pairs... there are 2 each of all 6 star blocks, and 6 of the chain blocks.

 

I tried to figure out how this quilt would go together- I even went so far as messing around in EQ5, but couldn't get it. (didn't try TOO hard, though! I don't want to ruin the surprise.) although- having said that, there seems to be a spoiler in the linkups... oh, well.

 

this quilt top was one that I "just had" to do- found the tutorial on youtube here. after seeing it, I got the brilliant idea to make mine in low volume fabrics. (you know, what we quilters used to call neutrals, or background fabrics, before quilting got all popular and modern!) I had originally planned on doing the grey squares at all the intersections, but after doing a bit of math, realized that that would mean cutting, sewing, pressing and trimming 296 grey triangles! I quickly "scrapped" that idea and opted for the more modern version of the grey squares just fading away- and I really like it!

 

this is a huge hodge-podge of different fabrics- mostly all from my stash- and some quite new (purchased for this quilt) and some as old as 25+ years! it's a good feeling to use up so many different fabrics. and also surprising at how well they look together- no one fabric seems to jump out at me.

sometimes...

 it's still early in July, and I managed to get my blocks done for Tell it to the Stars. yay, me!

it's only the second Saturday of the month, and I've used all the red (or most if  it, anyway...) in my scrap jars. 7 more blocks for the RSC14.

Tell it to the Stars: January- June

I managed to come in just under the wire and finished my June Tell it to the Stars blocks today. just in time for mr. linky! see all the other blocks over at Judy's blog...

( I took designer liberties with June's block, and replaced the HSTs in the corners of that block with the plain background squares. I didn't like the way those HSTs were so busy looking...)

when it rains, it pours: Tell It To The Stars ~ May's blocks

after *just barely* finishing April's Tell It To The Stars blocks around 10PM April 30 (thanks to a rainy day that made it too wet to work in the fields), I decided I'd take advantage of the still-too-wet-to-work-soil, and get May's blocks out of the way.

TA-DA! love the way they look- and that we got to play with fabric #3 again!

it was all thanks to the rain...

although it still feels as if spring has not "officially" arrived, we're still SUPER BUSY in the fields and the gardens. we have many of our early crops planted, as well as the tomatoes in the high tunnel, for a good, early start on the CSA/Farm Share boxes which start the first Thursday in June.

 

today was a rainy day, so I only worked a half day. after a hot shower AND a nap, I was thankful to head up the the sewing room and work on my Tell It To The Stars blocks for April.

 

I like how they're turning out!

 

here's all 8 of my blocks so far. I was hoping that Judy had posted tomorrow's block a bit early- I'd sew some more as long as I'm on a roll. but- tomorrow promise to be rainy as well, (or at least too wet to work the soil) so maybe I 'll get  a bit more time in the sewing room again!

I did see that Angela dropped a huge hint about green for RSC14. I already did my green scraps into 6½" crumb blocks back in March, so either i'll pick another color to do, or it's just as likely i'll be too busy to be sewing anyway!

if you want to see more about what we do with our CSA and the veggies we grow for our members, you can jump on over to facebook, and like our farm page, "by the bridge"

making progress on that mystery- TWO stars at a time!

Judy's Tell It To The Stars is coming along nicely. and I'm loving it so far! this months blocks were constructed a bit differently, but went together nicely. I think I did swap the colors a little bit- I wanted my stars to be yellow.

 

 

Tell It To The Stars: all that you wanted to know and more...

loving how Tell It To The Stars is turning out so far. each month until June, we'll be doing two blocks. (click on the link above to go to the original post about TITTS, and a link to each month's progress, AND everyone's linky's)

February 1: the next blocks for Judy's mystery quilt just came out, and I got right to it... they're done!

January's blocks: done!

here are my fabric choices. fabric #3 is the royal blue that I used in my wedding, #4 is Kona lupine.  fabric #6 is my favoritest ever~ stones!