Fabulous Freebies Blog Hop - My Day!!!

So, this is my project for the Fabulous Freebies Blog Hop.  It is a Bonnie Hunter free quilt and well, it is called "My Blue Heaven", (found here) but it isn't so blue, is it?  Well I decided to make my version scrappy so I pulled out my Kim Diehl scraps and fat quarters and went to town to create fabulosity in the:

The first thing I did was pull out my Accuquilt Go and I decided that I could cut all of the pieces with my 8" Cube Dies.  Yay!!!

The first step was to take all the quarter square triangles to make (wait for it) 90 hourglass squares from the 360 quarter square triangles.

True to Bonnie Hunter lots of pieces quilts, I took a whole bunch of the same but different quarter square triangles from my neutrals and the colorful half square triangles and took 90 times 4 and made 360 flying geese.  But I forgot that only one of the two squares in the quilt use flying geese so I actually made 180 too many.  I decided that instead of making more hourglass units for the border, I would use these flying geese instead.  So, no waste...

Next step was to take four flying geese, and four half square triangle blocks and attach them to half of the quarter square triangle blocks and create these beautiful star blocks.  Then for the second set of blocks, 

four rectangles and four squares were attached to the rest of the hourglass blocks.

Yay, now I was ready to put them together.  Nine columns and ten rows, alternating each block.

I really like the way this has turned out.  I especially like the way each block is framed in an opposite manner.  

See how in the picture on the left, the blocks in the corner turn away while in the star block, they turn in or enclose the star.  Makes the entire quilt have a lot of movement.  This is all the further I have gotten on the project.

I hope you have enjoyed my freebie.  I think it makes a great quilt.  Please also visit my fellow "freebie blog hoppers" from the list below.  There are a lot of great projects to be made!!!!

Monday August 20

Just Let Me Quilt 

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Days Filled With Joy

Tu-Na Quilts, Travels and Eats

Quilt Fabrication

Tuesday August 21

Life in the Scrapatch

Songbird Designs

Sew Many Yarns

Samelia's Mum

Vroomans Quilts

Wednesday August 22

Bejeweled Quilts by Barb

Creatin' in the Sticks

Just Because Quilts

Hazel's Daughter

Adventurous Applique and Quilting

BeaQuilter

Thursday August 23

Words & Stitches

Patchouli Moon Studio

Something Rose Made

Sew Golden A Chance Me!

Clever Chameleon

Friday August 24

Seams to be Sew

That Fabric Feeling

Selina Quilts

Quarter Inch Crafter

Yanicka Quilt

MooseStashQuilting

Taking pictures of my quilts

I have decided to put my quilts up for sale.  I signed up with Amazon Handmade and then started to work on getting some good pictures.  My dear hubby built a complex but wonderful quilt frame to hold them up outdoors to take pictures.  So, well I have some pictures!

It was super sunny that day so I guess I am squinting a lot but you get the picture!!!  Although you can see the clips and bars at the top, you can't really see any more of the frame which had to be pretty sturdy to hold some of the larger quilts.

Check out Amazon Handmade to see more of my quilts for sale, well, give me a bit of time to get them all up...  

Coming soon is the Freebies Blog Hop and I am very busy making a quilt for that, because of course I took on a difficult pattern.

Have a great week.  See you at the Blog Hop next week. 

Always, Kay