Mon Oeuvre - Frolic Mystery Quilt progress 4

In this week's clue for Bonnie Hunter's "Quiltville Winter Mystery" Quilt she wrote: "Curiouser and curiouser!" Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English." - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. 

I think she did a good job of having us all scratching our heads wondering just where on earth she's going with this clue.

Photo credit: Bonnie Hunter (Quiltville)

We got to put together little kits of units. 

Here are some of my progress photos:

Working on sewing my chains together.

First kits begun.

Trying to have an "organized" assembly line going and holding my breath as these were being cut, hoping I had enough fabric to finish it. After a few of my units had been cut I began to over think her instructions, by my calculations (she doesn't tell us how many strips to cut to get the number of units for the clue. That's for us to figure out on our own). I was going to be very close to the end of one of my blues. I panicked and went out and got a couple of fat quarters, just in case I was short. Of course the store no longer had my blue fabric, so I had to substitute a new blue😥, which completely discombobulated me. This set up a whole nother stress level for me since I'm not doing this quilt "scrappy". How on earth was I going to fit the new material into an "organized" entry into these units when I have no idea how they'll fit into the final quilt pattern. 😧.

Sure enough I was wrong, I had just enough to finish with a bit left over. I also was going to be close to the end on my Aqua fabric, I'm glad I hadn't over worried about that as well. My head probably would've popped off.

This is how close I came to the end of those two fabrics for this clue.

Yikes!!

What did I learn through this week's clue?

Don't overthink the process

Don't panic

TRUST the instructions

Whew.... and now I have some bonus fat quarters for another project. So in the long run good for me!

Clue four

Past progress:

Clue one

Clue two

Clue three

Mon Oeuvre ~ Elizabeth Hartman quilt patterns

"Oeuvre" (the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively: "the complete oeuvre of Mozart" a work of art, music, or literature: "an early oeuvre" ORIGIN late 19th cent.: French, literally 'work.' - Oxford Dictionary.)

Elizabeth Hartman's quilt patterns are unique and fun. I did one before that I loved -  "Dogs in Sweaters", you can read that post here: https://hearsdifferentdrummer.blogspot.com/2017/08/mon-oeuvre-dogs-in-sweaters-quilt_21.html

This time I tackled 3 of her other quilts, but one block at a time as pillows. They have been gifted as early Christmas gifts, so I can now share them.

The patterns called for a 26" finished pillow, my husband did the math calculations for me to resize the blocks to fit a 20" pillow. I also had the fun of making my first envelope closure on the back of the pillows. The first two pillows I made: Legendary & Lisa the Unicorn had pillow patterns included with the quilt pattern, Frances the Firefly did not.

Here they are:

Legendary

Lisa the Unicorn

Frances the Firefly

This was the only one I did without a pillow pattern, this pattern only had the full quilt directions.

We had to bring Frances' wide wings in quite a bit to fit so now it's a new species:  a Firefly that is morphing into a Butterfly.

All together!

Such a fun project❤

Elizabeth Hartman creates whimsical quilt patterns, if you'd like to see what I mean click on this link to her site: https://elizabethhartman.com/