Winter Solstice start

 Good day and welcome to my blog!  I'd like to report on a project that has been simmering in the quilting room for a while.

Firstly:  My mom saw this pattern, and a sample, at a lovely quilt shop in Massachusetts:

She fell in love with it and we bought the range of fabrics (Stonehenge and related fabric lines) suggested by the pattern, with only a few substitutions.  I am making the throw size.

Here they are laid out on my "design floor", to check for value.  Put aside for a while, but I decided to work on this now, with a bit more time available to me.

To start: I made a guide so that I could quickly refer to fabric numbers mentioned in the instructions.

The pattern says it is for intermediate to advanced quilters and I would agree.  No inset seams, but somewhat complex instructions that you should read several times before cutting into your fabrics.

There are "tree" blocks and "mountain" blocks.  I have made the tree blocks, and am in the midst of making the mountain blocks (at top of quilt).  The quilt is assembled in columns and I have the columns partially sewn together.  Here's what I have for now:

I hope to get the rest done in a few weeks, and send it off to the long arm quilter that I use.  This will be a Christmas or Birthday present for mom.  I have in hand recently ordered Stonehenge wide backing fabric for the back.  This backing fabric came from Backside Fabrics.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Scrappy Mountain Majesties Finish

 Good Day, and welcome to my blog!  I have a finish to report.

I blogged in 2020 about starting Scrappy Mountain Majesties by Bonnie Hunter. (see that post for some advice.)  I got this project to a top and there it sat.  Well time moves on and it's time for a finish.  I quilted this myself, in the ditch, on my trusty old Kenmore sewing machine.

Many vintage fabrics in here, including the border and binding, which is at least 30 years old.  Speaking of binding, I did not have enough and added in another Christmas fabric for the last few inches.

One starts with  2 large squares of fabric for each block, but following Bonnie's directions, you slice and rearrange the fabric.  Sometimes a striped fabric will be going in different directions:

Or a novelty fabric will be nearly unrecognizable, like these rainforest frogs:

But's it's a fun pattern, and looks more complicated than it really is.  Finished size is about 54 inches by 73 inches, a good lap quilt size.  No home for this one yet.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

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