Friday, March 29, 2013

My Sister's Choice!

One of the items that I originally listed on the 2013 New FO Challenge was Bonnie Hunter's Sister's Choice quilt.  This is a lovely quilt that is on the Free Patterns! tab of her blog.  It can be found here.  She was or looking for something to do with her over flowing bin of 2 1/2" scrap strips!  As I have been using Bonnie's Scrap User's System since I started quilting, I too had many strips in my 2 1/2" drawer.  This seemed like a perfect quilt for me since I've been quilting for less that a year.

 This is a picture of Bonnie's Sister's Choice quilt that she has on the bed in her guest room.  I hope mine ends up looking as good at hers.


 I only had 8 blocks made so far, but I really was happy with how the blocks were turning out.  I have been using the same neutral fabric for the background and the same green fabric for the star points.


 
 I am up to 52 blocks now and have had to switch to a different neutral twice since I used all of the first two up that I had in my stash.  I use a safety pin to group 10 blocks together, so I don't have to keep counting how many I have.  I have a few more 9-patches sewn together, but those will have to wait until after Easter for me to be able finish them. 

I still haven't decided how I will finish the quilt.  Bonnie didn't use any sashing and just sewed the 72 blocks together 8 X 9.  She used a 1 1/2" inner border and a 5" outer border.  In making all of the flippy corners, I ended up with MANY bonus HST's.  For now I've just stuck them in an extra drawer but I think I might use them to do some kind of a border with. 



Happy Good Friday everyone and hope that you have a very Happy Easter!  To link back to the others participating in the new 2013 New FO Challenge, click here.

9 comments:

  1. How very nice and you are doing a great job. I have been thinking about this also. I enjoyed your blog.

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  2. Tami - this is going to be so neat! I like Bonnie Hunter's patterns and I love using my scraps which just seem to multiply... You are getting close to enough blocks - can't wait to see how you decide to finish it! ~Jeanne

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  3. What pretty blocks! Thanks for linking up.

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  4. I love that quilt!
    I just finished "Easy Street" and am thinking I need to do "Orca Bay" next.

    Thanks for visiting my blog :)

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  5. That's a beautiful quilt. I love scrappy!

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  6. Looking good Tami! Bonnie was at our Guild today teaching her Pineapple Blossoms quilt - what fun!!! She showed her Sister's Choice quilt and it is gorgeous :*)

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  7. Your Sister's Choice blocks look great. It's going to be a fun quilt with all those scraps you've got.

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  8. I like that you've had to use several different background fabrics. I think it will add interest to the quilt. Your blocks look great.

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  9. That is just beautiful. I have always liked that style of pattern!

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