Daisy Chain Mystery QAL {One Month To Go!}

Update 8/11/2020 -- This pattern is now available in our Etsy and Payhip shops. Please visit one of those sites to purchase the full pattern.

I am so excited that one month from today is the official kick off of the Daisy Chain Mystery QAL!

Today I'm going to share some of the details (but not all!) to entice you to come along with me on this quilty journey!

First and foremost, the mystery quilt will be offered in *FOUR* sizes:

Baby 36" square

Throw 60" square

Twin 96" x 72"

Queen 96" square

The units will *not* be different sizes for differently sized quilts, the larger quilts just use more units and blocks.

This quilt is designed so that you can use just yardage, just scraps, or a combination of scraps and yardage. The cutting and piecing will work with pre-cuts too -- jelly rolls, charm packs, layer cakes, and I think it would be especially lovely with a fat quarter or fat eighth bundle.

This quilt is also designed to be easily accomplished by a confident beginner but also fun and enjoyable for quilters of an experienced persuasion as well. I had a lot of fun making my original tester quilt and I am looking forward to making my second version alongside all of you during this QAL.

We are starting our QAL about a month earlier than we do typically -- we'll be starting in February rather than March! -- and I know that you have a LOT of choices for new QALs that start early in the year, but I really hope that you will join us!

I'm really proud of this quilt design -- I worked really hard to design a quilt that I loved and was excited to make and hope that you'll feel the same about the quilt!

As always, thank you for reading my blog and supporting Honey, Bunny, and Doll quilts!

Here's the schedule!

Fabric Requirements - February 4th
Cutting - February 18th
Block Units- March 4th
Block Units - March 18th
Block Units - April 1st
Block Units - April 15th
Catch up week link up - April 29th
Top Construction Part 1 - May 6th
Top Construction Part 2 - May 20th
Link up/giveaways/quilt parade starts: June 3rd
Link up/giveaways/quilt parade ends: June 17th

Brutal Honesty {January 2019}

I don't know about you, but for me, 2018 went by in a practical whirlwind. It feels like just yesterday I wrote up my January 2018 WIP list. Just for fun, I went through and put asterisks by the projects that were on this list one year ago. (Or maybe not for fun, maybe more for personal accountability.)

Sent out for quilting:
1. Drift Away Scrap Quilt -- At the long arm quilter. This quilt is earmarked as a gift and it doesn't actually need to be finished until the summer (I think.)

Completed tops:
2*. Magnolia Mystery QAL -- No progress, need batting
3. Breezy Blooms C2C Bee -- No progress, need backing + batting
4. Double Delight -- No progress, probably going to have long armed, need backing

Tops partially finished:
5*. April Showers C2C Bee Quilt -- No progress
6*. Romantic Garden Quilt -- No progress
7*. Monthly Wall Hangings -- No progress
8*. Pineapple Stash Bee Blocks -- No progress

Just blocks and units:
9*. Sew Kitschy Blocks -- No progress
10*. Cubicle Quilts -- No progress
11*. Happy Houses blocks -- No progress
12*. Birthstone blocks -- No progress
13. Radiant Jewel Quilt -- No progress

Quilt alongs and long term projects:
14*. Monthly Island Batik Ambassador projects -- Our theme for December was "whimsical and wonky!" Our January blog hop is coming up soon -- here's a preview of my project featuring the new Bazaar line!

15. Good Fortune Mystery Quilt -- I am all done with Clues #1-5. I am in the "wait and see" stage for Clue #6, and waiting on the final clues to be revealed this week (I think.)

I already know that January is going to be a bear of a month for me because of the move. More than likely, January is going to be a quiet month here at Little Bunny Quilts, other than my has-to-be-finished Island Batik project for January.

My mom, sister, and I are going to be "unofficially" participating in the APQ UFO challenge as well. My list is not very different than this list, but hopefully it will force me to pull out some of the long-languishing UFOs/WIPs. This month's selected WIP is my April Showers Medallion. It needs a final border and then will be ready for quilting.

If you or someone you love is interested in purchasing a quilt that you've seen on Little Bunny Quilts, please email me (littlebunnyquilts@gmail.com) because I am willing to part with many of the quilts I have made in the last two years. It is not cost-effective for me to list everything that I'm willing to sell on Etsy with their current listing fee structure. Click on the "Finished Quilts" tab above to see finished items.

Year in Review {2018 Finishes}

This is a LONG list this year!

1. Claire's Butterflies (pattern here!)

2. Twinkle Throw -- (pattern here!)

3. Garden Plots

4. Farmer's Wife

5. Wonderlust Placemats (and Tutorial!)

6. Sunset Gathering

7. Four Square Mini (pattern *was* on Craftsy, will update with new location)

8. Top Spin

9. Odori Quilt

10. Pinwheel Plus

11. Bias Table Table Runner

12. April Cubicle Quilt

13. May Cubicle Quilt

14. Antietam Baby Quilt

15. Faceted Ohio Star (pattern *was* on Craftsy -- will update with new location)

16. Fire Pit

17. Bear Tracks Pillow (Pattern here!)

18. Diamond Sunrise

19. On Ringo Lake

20. Summer on the Coast (pattern *was* on Craftsy -- will update)

21. 30 Pearls

22. Stars at Play

23. Pansy Garden

24. Jingle Bell Rock

25. Jingle Bell Runner and Tutorial

26. Summer Patio in Jungle Cruise (pattern here!)

27. Chit Chat Placemats and Tutorial

28. Jewel Box Star Table Runner

29. Twinkle Baby Quilt (pattern here!)

30. Christine's Blue Kitchen (pattern here!)

31-34. Scrappy Charity Sewing, more here!

35. Quarter Log Cabins

36. Donuts

37. Jolly Bar Meringue

38. Blocked Rainbow (pattern here!)

This quilt is done but I haven't had time to take pictures yet!

39. Crosscut Table Runner

40 and 41. Double Play Baseball Quilts (pattern here!)

42. Border Quilt

This is even more than I expected to have finished this year. I don't typically set a goal for a number of finishes -- but I do try to finish two things a month -- and this year I nearly doubled that! 

Good Fortune {Clues #5 and #6}

Despite the fact that I was out of state away from my sewing machine for nearly 5 days, I did manage to complete Clue #5 before Clue #6 came out last week.

On the Friday Clue #5 was released, I got home from work early and managed to get the clue nearly completed in fits and bursts throughout the evening that day. By the time we left for Ohio for Christmas, I had all of the units sewn and ready for their final pressing and trimming.

The day we got back, after unpacking and a quick trip to the grocery store, the units were pressed and trimmed. This was another quick and easy clue, and especially so making only half of the prescribed number of units. These units are mirror image sets -- left and right facing, or clockwise and counterclockwise, whichever naming convention you prefer.

On a side note -- what do you  call these units? I usually call them ribbon units since it reminds me of folded ribbon.

I used three different aquas in this step and seven different dark blues. The three different patriotic prints were not ones that I had originally pulled for this quilt and they originally were featured in my Uncle Sam wall hanging. A couple dark blue prints were charm squares given to me by a friend. The aqua paisley print was also used long ago for a baby quilt, the dot is leftover backing fabric (featured in quite a few of my recent quilts!), and geometric lace print is from my Meadow Dance pocket hanger.

For Clue #6, we've been instructed to make neutral string pieced strips, similar to Clue #4. Bonnie's caveat for those who might not want to strip piece these units and use a single fabric for the rectangles is to skip this clue and come back to it once the reveal happens.

For now, I am not planning to strip piece those units and will cut the necessary parts from my background fabric when I need them. Measuring my remaining background fabric, I am more than likely going to need to order more of this dot print to finish the quilt so it's probably better to wait to see how those units will be used.

I also am totally fine with "skipping" a clue for now, as the progress of packing and moving has begun! We closed on our house on Friday and have big plans for painting before we move next weekend.

I still have one finish for 2018 to photograph and post -- hopefully that will happen on Sunday! Yesterday it rained the entire day so hopefully I can at least get a few pictures today.

Sharing at Bonnie's Mystery Monday Link up!

The Border Quilt {Finished Quilt}

In November, I sent off my Border Quilt top with my mom for her to quilt. My intention was always for this to be a gift for my mother-in-law (as these colors are right up her alley!) and having my mom quilt it was really the only way it was going to get done for Christmas.

For the backing, we picked out this gold dot extra wide print. My mom tells me that the bolt says that it is "tan" but it is most certainly a gold toned fabric. Getting the first shot of a quilt on my mom's frame is always exciting!

She quilted a simple stipple all over the quilt. She also was wonderful and volunteered to bind the quilt for me -- she found the perfect blue print in her stash to go with the blues in the quilt.

My mother-in-law was VERY surprised when my parents arrived on Christmas Day and they came with more presents for her! She was beyond thrilled that she has another quilt from me. (This is the third quilt I have given to her, in addition to a tree skirt.)

She said that this will be the perfect quilt for her couch for the "in-between" seasons -- when it is neither baseball season nor the Christmas season.

Many thanks to my husband, who has reached professional status with his quilt holding abilities.

Quilt Stats:
Name: Dianne's Border Quilt
Pattern: The Border Quilt by Patterns by Jen (top was made as part of Jen's QAL!)
Fabrics: Kona Champange for spacer strips, scraps for piecing
Quilting: Meander in off-white by my mom
Size: Approximately 65" x 72"
Started: July 2018
Finished: December 2018

Sharing at Needle and Thread Thursday!