Adding Blue

 

Okay, I think that's enough variety of blues for the last ingredients of this block. The quilt and pattern designer, Bonnie K. Hunter calls this a Lupine Star. That sounds like a good name to me. While I was cutting out the blue pieces I  tried to cut from mainly the lightest blues I had been working with for this quilt. So they're not all different as the pink block centers are, but I don't think that will matter too much once the other block that makes up this quilt gets added in-between.

Twenty-five Squares

I only managed to cut out the twenty-five 1.5" pink squares for the Lupine mystery quilt today. The good news is that I was able to get the majority of them cut out of the scraps I've been collecting as I've been going through all the clues which was easier than wrangling big pieces of fabric to cut out that tiny square.

At least I pinned them up with the block units they'll be going into on the design wall. 

Next up, the blue sashing that will go in-between the four block units. I cut out three block's worth to see how it looks. hmmm. Not too sure about that dark one.

Finished Spikies

 

The rest of the spiky star block units left to sew together was a pretty big stack.

Adding to the finished blocks up on the design wall kept me sewing.

The chain sewing was quite long, but these go together easily if you follow the pressing directions.

All they need is the final seam.

And there they all are, hurrah! Now to cut out the blue sashing and pink cornerstones that will go in between each set of four. Getting there.

Still Spiking

 

I dealt out the colors and prints for the remaining Spiky Star blocks for the Lupine Mystery and sewed most of them together.  Chain piecing style. The remaining piles to be sewn are in the foreground.

Not too many of these sets left to get together I have quite an assortment of pink, purple and "white/neutral" fabrics in these blocks. Some are great combinations, some not so much. Overall, hopefully they'll work in the quilt.

Getting Spiky

The next clue I'm working on for the Lupine Mystery quilt involves making some larger block units out of already made smaller block units. Two sizes of HSTs and the HRTs combine for this interesting almost its own block. 

I only had to un-sew one bit that I'd gotten the big HST turned the wrong way around. At least I noticed before it got sewn into the quilt, right?  Before I sewed together the next few, I set up the elements in stacks that looked like the final product.

So spiky! I love the look of all the variations in the pinks and white fabrics. These don't look so great on my white design wall. I promise they all have white fabric centers. Interesting how they visually just totally disappear. The final blocks will have the four sub-blocks with blue sashing and pink cornerstones in the centers. But those haven't been cut out yet...

Grey Birds

 Time for me to make another block for the BAMQ BOM, so it's back to the Box o' Greys.

This month it's Birds In The Air, and I'm going to use an EQ8 version.

I made two of these blocks, and I really like how they turned out. I almost want to make two reverse blocks to make a big four patch out of them.

So Many Kitty Ears

I buckled down and got started sewing the remaining sets of Kitty Ears units for the Lupine Mystery quilt. 

I love how these "Kitty Ears" units kind of have the look of Flying Geese gone wrong, or maybe just gone wiiiiiide.

Cutting the very last set to size with the Simple Folded Corners ruler.

It took a lot of trimming and sewing and pressing, but they got put together. Check out that pile of teeny tiny hsts™!

 But here they all are.  

Twenty-four sets of four "kitty ears" all done. You may be wondering if I had run out of white on white? No, just thought it'd be fun to put in two of my favorite white with black prints. This layout would actually make a very interesting scrap (or otherwise) quilt. Looks like columns of arrows.

  I am so very very ready to move on to the next clue.