Allietare! Week 1

Just a quick update on my Allietare! progress...

All done & ready for clue 2!

Buongiorno Amici!

Well, here are the details from yesterday...

First of all, I completed another 19 blocks for Baby Girl's quilt.

On to Allietare!

My constant fabric is an older piece that I absolutely love...it's "Barely There" by Jinny Byer (for RJR Fabrics). 

I cut 20 2.5" strips. Yes. Twenty. That's twice as many as I needed. 

I don't Math well. 

I sorted through my 2" box and pulled my neutrals. Then I cut a single strip from the fat quarters I had. (I purchased 5 neutral FQs specifically for this project.)

After cutting all of those squares, I cleaned my machine. I'm using my Bernina Artista 200,

#57 foot (1/4" piecing),

Schmetz 90/14 quilting needle,

Aurifil 50/2 #2610 (a light blue/grey).

I also wound three bobbins to get me started. 

Machine settings:

Stitch #1

Stitch length 2.5

Tension 4.0.

Whew! Glad to get those boring details out of the way!

Today is another family dinner. I'm taking the neutral squares with me so that I can get them marked. 

Here's my plan for the week:

Today: mark the diagonal

Sunday: stitch double lines

Monday: cut & press

Tuesday: trim

Wednesday & Thursday: catch up

Friday: CLUE 2!

Cuciture felice!

Buongiorno, Allietare!

*Because I don't have internet at home and I blog from my phone (and because I probably just haven't learned how) I won't always have clickable links. My apologies to Bonnie Hunter.*

It's time!

The mystery starts today!

I cleaned up the kitchen just enough to make coffee and clear my cutting area. 

Who cares about a dirty kitchen when there's stitchin' (or in this case, cutting) to be done?!

Thing 1 and Thing 2 have been warned. 

"There will be NO EATING at the kitchen table until all of my strips are cut!"

But, that's okay, since they are "camping". 

(Sometimes I just don't know if I'm encouraging creativity or messiness.)

Oh, look!

Baby Girl & Princess are up and I just claimed the table...

Princess has given me her opinion on that...

Who's in charge around here?!

A few quick picks from yesterday:

My niece and her birthday cowl.

The two biggest blessings we have to be thankful for this year.

And a perfectly beautiful turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. (Thanks to my amazing husband & the firefighter's who cook amazing things!)

Cuciture felice!

Check out google translate! I'm learning Italian as we go through this mystery!