La Passacaglia, EPP, and Grand Illusion

[Rita C.]

Thanks Renata and Sharyn. I will give it one more try.

I did it exactly like you said Renata - the attachment looks like it is here - just above me actually. So if this doesn't work ....

[Rita C.]

I'm so excited. I'm new to this site and when I saw this thread I got excited I'm a bonnie fan as well and made my first bonnie quilt last year. Her mystery quilt. I'm looking forward to this year's and almost have my fabric ready.

[Renata L.]

Rita and Ttime, great Mystery Quilts! Looks like we all took our cues from Bonnie on the color last year.

Thank you for your kind comments on my quilts, Judy. Looks like your quilts will become studies in color for me--they are absolutely gorgeous!

[Rita C.]

Thought I would have another go. This is my epp project for quite some time now. The hexagons are 3/4". I am in the very slow process of squaring it up with plain hexagons now. I would love to finish this in my lifetime :lol:

[Rita C.]

Rita, that inner border on Celtic Solstice is brilliant. Is it elongated pinwheels?
Your hexie project WILL be finished in your lifetime, we are all living to 200 aren't we, so we don't have any left over stash?
Ttime, thanks for sharing your Celtic!

I'll take a couple pictures of my La Passacaglia EPP (the g is silent) which means Slow Dance. I think I'll call mine The One That Got Away. You'll see why when I show the rosettes

[Jo H.]

It is BEAUTIFUL. I love working on my hexie projects.

JoJo

[Nancy R.]

Your hexie project is wonderful, Rita! I'm sure you'll finish it soon. You always accomplish so much! I can't wait to see how you fill it in!

[Susan B.]

Beautiful work being shown here by the worker bees! Keep those photos coming.

[Susan B.]

Ladies,

I so love seeing all your beautiful quilts. Unfortunately it makes me feel like such a slacker. I promise I will try to do better so please let me play with the big kids!

Judy

[Rita C.]

Thanks for the compliments ladies! Sharyn, the pinwheels were made from the leftover triangles during the making of CS, I just put sashing around them to make them fit the border. (Maybe that is elongated pinwheels?) Love your roll roll cotton boll quilt. All those tiny HSTs hmy:
Judy, we are all here to play together. Anybody else got a quilt they want to show us?

[Nancy R.]

Judy - I bet your quilts are better than you let on (we are all our own harshest critics)! And even if you are a beginner, even Sharon Schamber and Janet Stone were beginners once. We all started somewhere and we all are always getting better. And, the biggest given with quilters, we all love to see all of the quilts that everyone has made! They are all beautiful!! So please, please share!! I guarantee that this community will always make you feel like a star. That's what they've done for me.

[Nancy R.]

Well ladies, I haven't done any of these and don't have any of the directions for Bonnie's scrap quilts but you have all done a wonderful job. They are just beautiful.

Rita--I love, love, love what you are doing with your hexie quilt!

[Rita C.]

Ritzy, I was trying to remember your method of sewing hexagons together yesterday but I just couldn't and I couldn't remember where you had posted photos of it either - probably wouldn't have been able to access it on the new site anyway. :unsure:

[Rita C.]

I print my hexagons on a iron on stabilizer, cut them out, iron them on the fabric and then roughly cut them out. I then just stitch along the edge of the fusible, sometimes I will glue stick them together matching the edges before I stitch. The advantage to doing it this way is that I can press my seam so the piece is very flat. I will see if I can find the picture that I had on the old site.

[Rita C.]

="ritzy" post=123123 and don't have any of the directions for Bonnie's scrap quilts

I think Bonnie is one of the most generous teachers in the quilt world. She has four or five books out now, but on her website
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/ below the quilt header click on the tab that says Free Patterns. Lots of scrappy quilts there.

In addition she does quilt cam, which I can't believe other famous quilters don't do occasionally
She literally goes down to her basement quilt room which looks like everyone else's by the way, turns on her computer and camera and just sews along with whoever tunes in Sounds weird, but so many of us are isolated from other quilters, it is totally fun to have a project ready and just sew along.
There is a quilt cam tonight 6PM west coast usa time, 9PM west coast usa time.
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/p/live-quiltcam.html At the right time she flips a switch and this link goes live. They are archived on youtube for later if interested https://www.youtube.com/user/quiltville/videos

I'll quit talking about her now enough is enough, but I do admire her for her use it up philosophy.

I think when I put up my EPP photos I'll start a new thread if I can't find one already going, I don't know how heavy handed the mods are here and I think we've passed Beginners Corner
I already feel at home here, thank you.