I made Bonnie Hunter's
2018 Mystery Quilt Good Fortune
I got all the way to this stage, and realized something was wrong- I wasn't happy with the top, I couldn't see the secondary designs I had hoped to see....were my fabric choices really wrong?
Nope--I figured out the next day as I was laying out the first pieced border that I had assembled every blue block incorrectly. Now this quilt was called Mis-Fortune! I took the corner one off and took it apart to rearrange. They should have looked like the block below.
I left it be for a day or two, consulted some wise and experienced quilting friends. I was a little concerned about ripping the whole quilt apart, especially because all the units in the blue blocks are triangles, thus bias, thus prone to stretch. I had pretty nice points and a flat quilt top as it was, and was concerned I'd not be happy with a ripped apart and re-stitched quilt top.
And ultimately decided to leave it be.
I took off one column and added it as an extra row to the bottom, which
meant some adjustments and a coping strip instead of the first pieced border according to the pattern.
This quilt was made 100% with materials I had on hand--in my stash. I cannot say that very often, so that was fun. I think one of the reasons I wanted to make this quilt was because I wanted to use that orange floral.
Moving that column to a row, changing the quilt from square to rectangle to change the dimensions is what turned it back to Good Fortune again--this quilt is now an appropriate size and will be donated to
Quilts of Valour which I think is a very good thing.
I even had this backing in the stash....good fortune again :)
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