Allietare finished

I love the way Allietare turned out. 
I made half the amount of units Bonnie suggested and this gave me a 4 x 4 block square. I had to make one more blue centre block and 4 triangle edging blocks. I had a red centred block left over so I used units from the red block to make the extra triangle blocks I needed.
My design wall is not large enough for a big quilt, even Allietare at half size was too big for my wall, so I used our floor to layout the blocks. 

I added a thin blue inner border and a large black outer border. Now Allitare top is waiting to be quilted, but as we are travelling,  it will have to wait until I am home again. 

 

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I love mystery quilts and this one is beautiful.

Thank you Bonnie!!!

Allietare part 5 and merry Christmas

Had a lovely Christmas day, it started with a cup of tea in bed, followed by pancakes for brunch and a wonderful late lunch of seafood, chicken, ham, salad, and fruit and nuts.

Part 5 Allietare was posted on Boxing Day, but I didn't have time to look at it until yesterday, Sunday. 

You can find Bonnie Hunter's instructions here.

I did have time to visit Spotlight and stock up on Christmas fabric for next year, and I was able to replenish some creams and blacks used in this mystery. 

We used units made in part one and part two to make the first units of part five. I was short 6 half square units, but had cut lengths to make them. 

The second part involved rectangle units from part 3 and grey squares from part 2. They were fairly quick to sew.

That's it for part 5. We will be traveling again next week,  so part 6 will have to wait until I can set up the machine again.

Bonnie's Allietare part 5  link-up party can be found here.

Allietare part 4

Started part 4 yesterday and boy is it time consuming. I'm not whining,  I'm just stating that it was very time consuming,  and lucky I am on holidays. I had collected more than the alloted amount of fabric needed for half size, and in this part pieces needed to be the same fabric. Mmmm. Lucky I had brought another project with me that had extra cream. All my blacks are pretty much gone, as are my creams. I'm fine for blues and reds, but if part 5 needs other colours, it's off to Spotlight I go.

You can find Bonnie Hunter's instructions here - http://quiltville.blogspot.com.au/p/allietare-mystery.html

I needed to draw a diagonal line through 240 black squares.

I used pegs to keep each set together.

Ironing with a craft iron - that doesn't get overly hot - was also time consuming (still not whining ☺)!

On day one I made four sets.

Day two, I was on a roll and made six sets, well it was raining so I had time. Only five to go, hopefully tomorrow. 

With the cut off half square triangles I have made numerous mini blocks.

I'm not sure what I will make with them,  but nothing gets wasted, that's my Scottish blood.

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