Finalmente! - Allietare Week Six Plus

While I was on a trip, Bonnie Hunter released the reveal for Allietare. I like it a lot.  I think this quilt probably looks better as a scrappy quilt than as the kind that's not scrappy. (Is there a name for the non-scrappy kind?) I base this on the diagrams in Bonnie's instructions, which show solid color pieces so that you will know where to place your various colored prints.

I can't show you Bonnie's work or the work of others because the quilt-along is over now. You can buy the pattern from Bonnie's Shop.

The (practically) final step of Allietare is putting all of the little pieces from weeks 1-5 together into 10 1/2" blocks. There are two kinds of blocks that need to be made: gray blocks and gold blocks. To make the full size quilt, you need a total of 50 blocks. Since I am making a half-size quilt, I thought I could make it with 25 blocks. (Or fewer. I'm not sure how that would work mathematically, but I was hoping for a happy surprise. It's a mystery quilt, after all.)

Cutting blocks in half to make both sides even is not an option because of the way the quilt is designed. 

So, without the help of a calculator, computer program, or app, I determined that I am going to have to bump my "half-size" quilt up from 50% to 64%. It means I have to end up with a total of 32 blocks. Sigh. . .  I hope I don't run out of fabric.

Meanwhile, I was too impatient to relive Weeks 1 through 5 seven more times, so I forged ahead with the final blocks.

Here is what four of them look like:

See how the scrappiness gives it so much more texture? I really like it.

I had a Sewing Day and invited a few friends over. We had a good time sewing and talking and giving advice to each other.  Susan worked on a baby quilt. Barbara worked on the rescue of an old, well-loved quilt. Marilyn worked on a kuspuk.

 

Hooray for Susan! She finished the baby quilt. Isn't it fabulous?

Me? I worked on my blocks. I now have a total of 12 done. They go a little more slowly than the earlier pieces because you have to be careful with all the points. Twenty to go. And then the setting triangles. And then the border.

I have to start thinking about the backing and about how I'm going to quilt this. . . .