Easy Street - Pink Lemonade Edition

Well I did it... finished the top of my iteration of Easy Street. I must say I surprised  myself for managing this project that was way out of my comfort zone and I'm glad I did










I learned a LOT: piecing technique, chain piecing, cutting, assembling. The one thing I could not do is 'scrappy'. It goes completely against my OCD tendencies. There are a few different whites, yellows, pinks and greys but no, this quilt is not really scrappy. I still absolutely love it and can't wait to have it finished so I can have it on my bed.

Here are the block all finished before the final assembly

Of course there have been a couple of oopsies and some quality time with the seam ripper

I had the help of Her Evilness, my quality control assistant

And here it is .. Saturday night, on my bed

Then of course the usual agony over the borders

And the final result after some quilty 'math' to figure out the perfect size form my checkers border

100"x100" of retro bliss

Go check out the glorious iterations made by the other mystery followers here

UPDATE 

I got some daylight pictures today (01/08/2012) and noticed a piecing mistake ...Another date with my seam ripper tonight !

Onto Easy Street - Part 5

I did it ... just barely but I finished part 5... I can't believe i'm still on track with all the craziness going on in the family lately... Like a last minute trip from MD to upstate NY leaving Sunday and returning yesterday in a giant winter storm (snow and sleet were our companions for half of the way).

After putting away our luggage, Christmas goodies, getting the groceries and 2 load of laundry, I was finally able to cut and piece the "house" blocks.

Like each previous step I have a few extra blocks

Here is a sampling of the completed blocks. I'm starting to feel very curious about the final result :)

See everybody else's progress here

Onto Easy Street - Part 4

Still on track despite the pre-Christmas craziness, next week will be another story with a last minute trip upstate NY to visit the family.

This week the geese will be grey and yellow

I followed Bonnie's trick for a seam guide 

And the geese came together much faster

Looking good :)

I did have a couple of oopsies 

But it's all fixed

And I aslo cut my squares ... my green is actually pink

I'm way to busy to try to figure out how this is all going to come together but I admit I am intrigued 

You can check on everybody's progress HERE

Onto Easy Street - Part 3

After the flying geese of last week, week 3 was rather easy. I also caught up on the cutting of the rectangle blocks I skipped last week.

I was on a roll and piece all blocks in a couple of hours

All done ... I love the yellow white and grey together

Thanks Maxine for working hard with me

Here are steps 1, 2 and 3 together

I'm just so happy I'm still marching along.

You can check on the other participants' progress HERE

Onto Easy Street - Part 2

Part 2 of Easy Street brought a bit of a challenge for me ... Flying geese.. my first ever. I was a bit nervous but thankfully the instructions were easy to follow and it turned out to  be much easier than I was expecting.

2" strips

A lot of cutting

Piecing and ironing, then more piecing

It worked a lot better once I engaged my machine's handy dandy even feed

So after 3 sessions of cutting. sewing, ironing, clipping I have conquered my fear of the flying geese (and bias piecing)... TADA !!

All counted and bagged 

Along with last week's

in a giant zipper plastic bag... bring it on week 3 :) 

See everybody else's progress here in Quiltville

Onto Easy Street - Week 1

Crazy me .. since I apparently I don't have enough to do at this time of the year, I added to the pile with the latest Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt : Easy Street.

Since most of my stash is still inaccessible (in boxes in a storage unit) I only had limited choices but I think I was able to pick a cohesive palette.

Here is my fabrics selection :

My color table:

Lime -> Red & pink
Aqua -> Grey
Purple-> Orangey yellow

Grey-> Black
White & Black->White

All fabrics are small floral prints or polka dots except one of the scraps of grey

I went to work ... cutting

Piecing...

Ironing...

DONE !!

See all the other participants' first week in the linky party : 

http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/11/easy-street-monday-link-up-1.html