Or I could re-title this post, "Grand Illusion Revisted". Do you remember those green, cream and black pieced sashings that I eliminated from my Bonnie Hunter Grand Illusion mystery quilt? Those have been hanging around my sewing room, nagging my inner frugal self for several months. There had to be a use for them. Our guild decided on a challenge for this year, calling it "Its all about Bonnie". (We are hosting a trunk show and two workshops with Bonnie in September. See the website stitchbystitchquilters.org for trunk show tickets.) We will display those quilts at the event in a mini quilt show. I was looking a slide show from quiltville.com one day and Viola! Patches and Pinwheels! As my Mother would say "Kill two birds with one stone". The arrangement of the block was a little different, but I could see the possibilities. It was 2" squares. Some had to be unstitched a little, but most were still in 4 patches, so could be arranged in the 16 patch block without any ripping. I had lots of scraps for pinwheels, thus another quilt was born and my frugal self was appeased.
I like that green better in this quilt.
Some of the quilting.
I pieced the back from 10 inch squares. I won't do that again, it was too hard to quilt. Too many seams.
I did get to use some of this fabric from my stash. I love those clocks.
One more picture. I don't think I posted a picture of the finished graduation quilt. If I did, please forgive me. At least this one has the grandson in it.
I think he liked it.
That's all for now. I have been doing a little antiquing, but will talk about that later.
Keep on stitchin',
Judy
