This is my finished Bonnie Hunter Mystery: Chilhowie. I used scraps of Island Batik to make this. Interestingly, I still have a LOT of scraps left!!!
Quilt Stats:
- size: 78″ x 78″
- fabrics: Island Batik scraps from many collections
- batting: Hobbs 80/20
- Quilted and Pieced with Aurifil thread #2600: Dove Grey
- Wild Quilting: anything goes.
When you make a quilt as busy as this one, it’s a great quilt to do wild or graffiti quilting. It was a LOT of fun to quilt!!! I demonstrated wild quilting at a guild function … it was fun to have different people tell me what to quilt next. And yes, I did have a page full of motifs that are appropriate for wild quilting!
One who sleeps under a quilt is covered by LOVE!
Happy Quilting!
Gail
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Awesome finish, Gail!!! I know how much work BH’s mystery quilts are, as I just finished mine. Neat that you could demo wild quilting with your guild! Do you have a longarm at the guild, or did they meet at your home, or ?
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Hi Nancy,
I do all my quilting on a domestic machine. I had already quilted a good portion of the centre of the quilt at home, so at the guild sew day, I mostly quilted around that towards the sides and had people tell me what to quilt next. Such fun! 🙂
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Gail it is a beautiful finish. Of course I love your batik scraps and the wild quilting is a perfect finish for this quilt.
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Thanks, Carol!
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I love your version of Chilhowie, but what’s not to love with batik scraps! Graffiti quilting is something I want to try to do more of – thanks for the inspiration!
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Hi Kathleen! I can’t wait for you to try graffiti quilting. I just know that you’re going to LOVE it!!! 🙂
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This is beautiful, Gail! I have collected by not even begun all those prompts for this one! You really can’t go wrong with Island Batik scraps!! I love how they all go together so well!
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Thanks, Brenda! Bonnie’s quilts are great – but they do take time. Have you considered do it as a leader and ender?
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This is gorgeous! I love your version of the mystery!
I am slowly working away on my blocks still!
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Thanks, Kathy! Keep working on your blocks … eventually they’ll get done! And you’ll be so pleased with it! 🙂
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Very pretty – lots of work in this quilt!!!! Hugs
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All of Bonnie Hunter’s quilts are a LOT of work … but worth it in the end! 🙂
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Gorgeous!
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Thanks, Dana!
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Hi Gail! Beautiful finish and I just LOVE the idea of wild quilting. That sounds like a lot of fun, both making it and quilting it with a group. {{Hugs}} ~smile~ Roseanne
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Thanks, Roseanne! I think wild quilting is my absolute favourite!!! Anything that could have an edge to edge pattern could easily have wild quilting!
Hugs back at ya!
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Your version of Chilhowie turned out beautifully!
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Thanks, Kate!
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Your Chilhowie quilt is really pretty. But then how can you mess up when you use batiks?
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So true, Gene!!! It’s almost impossible to mess up with batiks! And Bonnie’s patterns are all colour coordinated – so it works out!
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