Monday, November 21, 2011

Step #1 - Complete

Just finished clipping all the little dog-ears from 280 - 2 1/2" unfinished hourglass blocks for the Orca Bay mystery quilt by Bonnie Hunter. I am using blue where Bonnie is using black.  I thought for sure that I had the Companion Angle ruler that Bonnie suggests, but when it came time to cut, I didn't have it!!  I had the Fons and Porter Flying Geese ruler and I got the same result by using this ruler.  I didn't need to square up my blocks. They came out perfect.  I only need 224 of these cute little blocks for the quilt,  but I got carried away.  I will have some left over to make a pillow. 

12 comments:

Sheila said...

Wow that is a lot of hour glass blocks , should be a really sweet quilt. Have fun.

Sue Daurio said...

the blue looks great. I just started mine, I have one complete block done :)

Reena said...

you are so funny! I am doing less- so we balance out!

Susan said...

I got carried away and made too many too. I chose blue instead of black also. What other colors are you using?

Ann Marie @ 16 Muddy Feet said...

I haven't started mine yet, but it seems everyone is making way too many. LOL!

Linda H said...

Looking forward to following your progress Linda!

Celia said...

Great, I did mine blue as well.

Michele said...

Nice. I can't wait to see the finished project.

Helen in the UK said...

I'm only making half quantities of the mystery blocks, so I'm WELL IMPRESSED that you've made all yours and quite a few spare :)

Candace said...

Your blocks look great. I got carried away too, but I only have 251.

Ellen said...

Your little blocks look great in blue!

sherri s. said...

Lovely quilting, as usual...thanks for stopping by Foziewisp and leaving a nice comment!