Mumto2

SuzSLO It’s beautiful and your quilting is great! I look at your 72x72 and wish I had done the smaller size, so much more useful unless you know you have a bed to cover.

SusieQOH

SuzSLO- that's gorgeous! I love how you quilted it. What a beauty! I still have to get mine longarmed.
Why do I put these things aside? It's been ready to go for months. SMH at myself!

happylab

SuzSLO, great job on the finish. Fabulous job on the top and quilting. They go great together.

tallchick

Congratulations on the finish, it’s beautiful! Your quilting and backing are fabulous.

EmiliasNana

Thanks for directing me to this site. I kept looking under Rhododendron Challenges and couldn't find it. Here is my finished BH quilt top. I started it in mid-My and finished this past weekend. Everything went together perfectly except the top and bottom borders were a bit long. So........I took out my paper pieced diamond and put together two flying geese of the same color and it just looks like a bigger diamond LOL I had to purchase more neutrals but everything else was from my stash. I wasn't sure about the scrappy neutrals but from afar they appear almost solid.

Sandra-P

Wow, each quilt is so beautiful. I love how everyone did their own technique and tweaked it a bit.

SuzSLO

Glad you cross-posted here.

I agree that it is great how well scrappy neutrals both blend but also add just that little extra bit of pizzazz to a quilt. A photo of a quilt Alex Anderson made decades ago with nothing but white and off-white fabric (you can use those on the same quilt!) was a game changer for me. And Bonnie obviously embraces this vibe.

Making mostly scrappy quilts mostly with fabrics in my stash does allow me to pretend that materials for my quilts are cheaper than they really are. I almost had a heart attack when I priced buying all the fabric needed for a new quilt (even with most of it on sale) and decided I had better make a test block from my stash before proceeding.

joe'smom

I've been following along with the Edyta Sitar summer 2022 mystery. It has a fascinating look due to the block shading. I don't think these clues will remain available after this Wed., when the mystery ends. She has designed the quilt for 1 yd. pieces and 2 yd. of a light neutral, but it could be done scrappily as well.

#summermysteryquilt2022

SuzSLO

Are you going to make the pattern, eventually? I did her 2020 Mystery (California) after all the clues were released and still enjoyed the process.

joe'smom

Yes, I've saved the clues and hope to make it sometime in the future. Meanwhile, it's fun to see all the variations people are posting!