Week 7 Update
Good morning! It’s been a full weekend and Friday was full of surprises. Bonnie Hunter released the reveal of Good Fortune. WOW! It is stunning! And I can’t wait to get mine finished.
Something funny happened in the Quiltville Open Studio group on Facebook. About an hour after the reveal was posted a group member asked, “So who’s got their quilt finished?” The response was overwhelming and the comments tickled my funny bone. Some of these quilters are the fastest piecers I have ever seen and their ability to produce completed clues in just a matter of hours is mind-boggling.
In other news…
The second APQ UFO is a quilt I named Anna’s Legacy. My husband had an aunt who was a quilter and when I met her for the first time in 2003 she told me about this “new” technique called Stack N Whack and showed me pictures of exquisite quilts she had made using this method. Of course, I was eager to give it a try and went home from the reunion and promptly spent $100+ on gorgeous fabrics, a book and mirror. I stacked and I whacked and I sewed a bit, then life happened and I stored that quilt in a tote through a couple of different moves.
Anna’s Legacy was finally uncovered again in 2008 following the birth of our daughter because I was going stir crazy at home. Only then did I realize I had started to assemble the blocks incorrectly and the centers weren’t going to work. Back in the tote it went and endured several more moves, the longest one being to Texas.
Fast forward to 2013 and Anna passed away due to pancreatic cancer. Long story short there are family complications stemming from my husband’s parents and we weren’t in contact with Uncle Larry at the time of Anna’s passing. I was saddened at her death and decided to name my unfinished quilt after her. It’s time to face the complications and finish up that beauty.
Sunday evening I finally found time to get back to work on Good Fortune. Chevrons were on the menu this time and once I found my groove (Youtube on the tablet watching 1940’s House and a documentary on servants) the assembly went FAST. I have nearly all of my chevrons and bonus hst’s finished.
Linking up with Bonnie over at Quiltville. Be sure to check out some of the beautiful variations the other quilters are making.
Have a blessed day and happy quilting!
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