Just the colours I feel driven to use

Current world events are pretty grim at the moment (that is British English for downright dreadful) with the completely unprovoked, unwarranted and illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine.  There are many reports and videos demonstrating the indomitable Ukrainian spirit and I know that many quilters are choosing to work in blue and yellow to signify the colours of the Ukrainian flag and national flower - the sunflower.  Once again this month I want to work on a project that has been "resting", this time Bonnie Hunter's Mystery Quilt from autumn 2011 - Orca Bay, pattern available in her String Fling book. Bonnie's original quilt was made in blacks, reds, blues and neutrals, mine is in blacks, blues, yellows and neutrals, so what languishing project could be more appropriate to pull out and get done this month.

Bonnie Hunter's original Orca Bay - 2011/12 Mystery Quilt

My version as I had left it

 

In early 2012 I had got as far as assembling the main part of the quilt top and then ran out of steam, so I really don't have a lot to do to get the quilt top finished. This one will get sent out for long-arm quilting so my One Monthly Goal for March 2022 is to get this top finished up and sent out (or ready to send out) for quilting.  Packed away with the main section are most or all the little bits for making the borders.  My first task is to remove the remaining foundation papers from the string blocks, this would have been easier before assembling the quilt top, but then I would have been dealing with a lot of stretchy bias edges so I made my sewing both easier and harder!  Of course no work on one of my quilts is without my "helper"

In other news my amaryllis have been blooming giving a bright burst of colour - this photo was taken a couple of weeks ago but the second flower spikes have opened on each of these bulbs.

This last weekend was warm, in fact I was outside in my t-shirt raking leaves and looking forward to the arrival of spring, so maybe there will soon be splashes of cheerful colour outdoors as well as in.