2017 quilting finishes

Sampler started 2013 (these were amongst my first ever patchwork blocks):

Grand Illusion 2014 Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt:

En Provence 2016 Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt:

Arqueoloxía... de labores

Desta atopei un feixe de revistas encadernadas: números non consecutivos de "Labores del Hogar" de finais dos sesenta e principios dos setenta, A meirande parte dos deseños son realmente anticuados ou demasiado ostentosos. Porén hai algún aproveitable. Mágoa que non se conservasen os caderniños cos patróns e instrucións de execución.

Bolso improvisado

Con retais de Ikea que sobraron de facer coxíns.

Looking back

I started quilting in January 2013, and a few months later I placed my first order from Missouri Star Quilt Co. It was a gigantic haul, mostly from their sales bin.
What has this fabric become since?

1. Fox Trails Fat Quarter Bundle is still unused!
2. Desired Things Fat Quarter Bundle is partially used; several FQs went into Allietare.
3. Farmer's Market Fat Quarter Bundle is gone into several projects.
4. Serenade Jelly Roll is still unused!
5. Sakura Park Jelly Roll became two baby girl quilts: with only squares or framed flowers.
6. Gipsy Caravan Design Roll is a bunch of blocks waiting to be assembled.
7. Taylored Design Roll is a baby girl quilt, framed and backed in pink.
8. Novella Design Roll is still unused!
9. Crazy for Shelbourne 2.5"strips is a large queen sized top (Carolina Chains pattern)
10. Happi Blue Design Roll was mixed with bright solids for a kid twin sized quilt.
11. Bella 2.5" Strips is a lap quilt backed with white fleece, very nordic!
12. Hope Cove Twice the Charm is now an extra fluffy quilt on my aunt's couch.
13. Watercolor Garden Charm Pack is a lap sized quilt I made for my niece Sofia.

At the end of that same year, I bought from MSQC several shades of purple yardage, and:

1. Essex Flannel Fat Quarter Bundle is still unused!
2. Kaleidoscope Fat Quarter Bundle is a Katie's Quilt at my sister's.
3. Morning Tides Fat Quarter Bundle is split in three projects: a Big Blue Star for the guests, a Churn Dash for Nerea and a Jacob's Ladder for Sofia.

The next purchase was made at the end of the summer 2014. 

1. Gipsy Caravan yardage to complete the blocks of a WIP mentioned before.
2. Wacky Web template and paper refills for a Blue Spiderweb quilt (basted and waiting to be quilted).
3. Fiskars Snips for the denim/flannel rag quilt (whose batting pieces are on this pic's background).
4. Bags of Scraps used in multiple projects.
5. Celebrate the Season 10" Squares was split in several Christmas projects, like this cushion.
6. Tropicana Pixie Strips are mostly gone in the above mentioned kid quilt.

Now, confession time: I've been a bad girl in 2015. I placed two orders, in January and November, and have used none of the fabric so far! (Although I did use the notions that came in the same parcels).

1. Mango yardage is still unused!
2. Bungalow 10" Squares is still unused!
3. Summersault 10" Squares is still unused!
4. 25th and Pine Layer Cake is still unused!
5. Roots and Wings 10" Stackers is still unused!
6. Helen's Garden Charm Pack is still unused!
7. Malam Batiks Fire Charm Pack is still unused!
8. Cotton Shades Dark Fat Quarter Bundle is still unused!
9. Kaffe Fassett Collective Hot 10" Squares is still unused!
10. Prints Charmin Charm Pack is still unused!
11. Rue Indienne Charm Pack is still unused!
12. Summer Song 2 Charm Pack is still unused!
13. Petite Prints Charm Pack is still unused!
14. Evergreen Charm Pack is still unused!

En Provence is a finished top

Link-up: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2017/02/mystery-monday-link-up-finale.html

Edited to add: En Provence is now quilted and bound.

En Provence clues #6, #7 and REVEAL!

I'm getting better at QSTs. Nothing like practice!

From the very beginning I have been playing around with my units, trying to guess how the finished quilt would look like, This is a supposition:

Instructions for clue #6.
Link-up party.
Previous posts: clue #1, clue #2, clue #3, clue #4, clue #5.

As in previous Mysteries, Bonnie Hunter ported her last clue and Reveal on New Year!

Edited Jan 14th: this is the top center before pieced borders (phone pic before it gets too dark), I am going for a 9 x 9 blocks layout, the quilt is therefore going to be 72" x 72" (hard enough to FMQ on my DSM)

En Provence clue #5

Another easy one, my main issue is the lack of variety: only 4 different neutrals and 4 dark purples left.

Instructions for this clue.
Link-up party.
Previous posts: clue #1, clue #2, clue #3, clue #4

En Provence clue #4

This one went fast!
Previous posts: Clue #1, Clue #2, Clue #3.
This week's instructions and link-up party

An early Santa filled my mailbox yesterday:

I am now working at my own quilted Christmas tree, inspired by this pattern but with 2.5" HSTs that finish 2". It is just going to fit the living room's door. The other options were based upon strips, maybe for a cushion cover? I'm not feeling like appliquéing this year, maybe another time.

En Provence clue #3

Previous posts: Fabric choices, clue #1, clue #2.
This week instructions.
This week link-up.
I've been using up all my purple scraps, plus some new yardage.
These are my first blocks.

En Provence clue #2

Previous posts: Fabric choices, clue #1
The instructions for clue #2 were posted last Friday. These are my first 44 units.

Waiting forward to this link-up party!

Bookcrossing creativo

Hoxe é o día do libro e/ou Sant Jordi.
Cadra nun soleado sábado, ideal para liberar e ir de caza.
En Carabanchel estiveron reciclando postos telefónicos avariados:

365 Challenge: January

http://www.365challenge.com.au/

My fabric choices so far:

Allietare

Bonnie Hunter's 2015 Mystery Quilt is here!

I'm itching to get started! My fabric choices so far:

Clue #1: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/11/allietare-part-1.html
Link-up: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/11/mystery-monday-link-up-allietare-part-1.html

I  bought the grey on purpose for this project, but all my neutrals have different stories. Upper left, bough in my last trip to Barcelona. Upper right, a curtain of my bedroom as I was a kid. Down left, ugly fabric I want to get rid off (cut small enough). Down right, from a M* scrap bag.

Clue #2: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/allietare-part-2.html
Link-up: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/allietare-mystery-monday-link-up-part-2.html

I'm caught up with all the cutting (including black and grey squares). I'm also going scrappy with the reds. First row: my last Portuguese purchase plus several Christmas fabrics. Second row: tone-on-tone FQs  bought in Barcelona plus Ikea Ditte solid red. Third row: florals, paisleys and plaid from my favorite fabric outlet.

Clue #3: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/allietare-part-3.html
Link-up: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-3.html

I've gone extremely scrappy with yellow/golds, pulling out from my 2 1/2" strip box. A couple of fabrics are lighter than Bonnie's suggestion, but my neutrals are also lighter and contrast well. 

Too many blanks still...

Clue #4: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/allietare-part-4.html

Link-up: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/sewing-parties-are-best-kind-of-parties.html

My usual tea boxes were too small... I had to store this clue in a pizza box! I got quite a variety of reds and neutrals, but only 6 different blacks (one of them pirate themed).

Clue #5: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/allietare-part-5.html

Link-up: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-5.html

The reveal! http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/allietare-part-6-reveal.html

I've been sewing all this first day of 2016 and I've completed all my blocks. Now the problem is, what to use for the borders. Bonnie Hunter suggests an inner yellow border and an outer black border. But I was mostly working from scraps and FQs, and the only fabrics I have enough yardage left in this color scheme are these:

From both reds and yellow, I have slightly above 1/2 yd, enough for the inner border. From grey and black, slightly 1 1/4 yd each, eligible for outer border. I'm auditionning different options:

Finally added red and black borders, it is HUUUUUGE!!! Sadly this means this top is goingo to wait with his sibling Grand Illusion at the bottom of my closet until I am fully equiped to deal with quilting it. I don't even have room enough in this house to display it and take a pic, so this is just a corner (about 1/4 of it) of the now rebaptized as the "Pirate Quilt":

Thanks again to Bonnie Hunter for this wonderful pattern and fun experience!

And this is link-up to other finishes: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/mystery-monday-link-up-reveal.html

Nova lei do IVE para contidos dixitais contribúe ao monopolio de Amazon

Coa idea de facer que Amazon pague en cada país da Unión Europea o IVE que lle corresponde a cada comprador segundo onde resida, entra en vigor a partir do 1 de Xaneiro unha nova normativa. En teoría, faise a petición dos minoristas europeos que se queixaban da competencia desleal por parte dunha empresa centralizada en Luxemburgo, a que só se lle gravaba cun 3%.
Na práctica, está a se favorecer o monopolio de Amazon respecto das pequenas distribuidoras. Varios autores aos que lles compraba directamente documentos en pdf acaban de anunciar que deixarán de vender a clientes europeos, xa que non poden asumir o papeleo de se dar de alta en cada estado da UE para pagar trimestralmente o IVE de cada un. Ou sexa, que haberá que pasar polo aro de Amazon, que si ten loxística para iso.

Edito para engadir o enlace dun artículo que o explica mellor ca min:
http://jmalarcon.es/post/El-IVA-en-2015-un-palo-mas-en-la-rueda-de-los-emprendedores-digitales.aspx

http://www.tecnoxplora.com/empresas/amazon-cobrara-iva-cuando-compres-ebook-pero-2015_2014021300343.html

http://www.actualidadeditorial.com/europa-iva-ebooks-nueva-directiva/

http://conexion.publidisa.com/2012/07/18/la-subida-del-iva-destroza-la-estrategia-editorial-de-vender-e-books%C2%B4mas-baratos/

 http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/06/26/babelia/1403785056_602371.html

Grand Illusion 2014 Mystery Quilt

Fabric choices

Clue #1: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/11/grand-illusion-part-1.html

Link-up #1: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-1.html

Clue #2: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/12/grand-illusion-part-2.html

Link-up #2: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-2.html

Clue #3: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/12/grand-illusion-part-3.html

Link-up #3: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-3.html

First 3 clues:

Clue #4: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/12/grand-illusion-part-4.html

Link-up #4: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-4.html

Clue #5: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/grand-illusion-part-5.html

Link-up:  http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-5.html

Reveal: http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/grand-illusion-finale.html

Link-up #6:  http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/mystery-monday-link-up-part-6.html

Haven't sewn any of the units together yet, just cut the aqua cornerstones to get an idea of the block looks with my fabric choices:

Simulation of quilt top by copy-pasting the pic above:

Celtic Solstice Completion

http://quiltville.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/celtic-solstice-mystery-link-up-finale.html
From this:

Over this:

Towards this:

Top is finished, soon I'll be piecing backing and figuring quilting out.