Penniedarling

 Bonnie K Hunter is a person I really admire, I have made 6 or 8 of her fabulously designed and mostly Mystery Quilts.  Bonnie is very generous, once a year she puts up on her website a Mystery Quilt.  First of all she tells us why she has decided on the name for this Mystery... the latest one is called Grand Illusions after a hotel she stayed in last May called the GRAND HOTEL on Mackinac Island, Michigan! Check it out here...http://www.grandhotel.com/

Check out Bonnies Introduction... Here...
You can see her photos and why she chose the fabrics she chose for her quilt.

Then each week she puts up on her Site Part 1 through to Part 6 and the final layout.  Great fun it is.

So I did Part 1 - which was 280 triangle squares made into 100 Broken Dish blocks with 80 triangle squares left over.

I made Part 2 - 100 Double Diamond Blocks

I  started... Part 3 - 120 8x2" blocks... I was way behind by this time, Bonnie does put her Mystery's out over Christmas which is not a good time to sew for me... but I was really excited about making this quilt as so many SCQuilter friends were making it and heaps of the Blue Gum Quilters as well...

Then I saw the finished product! See below...

 I am afraid I can't cope with the busyness of this quilt, my head just can't get around it!  This is the very first Bonnie Mystery I've started making, that gave me a headache... but I wasn't going to be daunted so I finished off Part 2 and Part 3 and tried putting blocks together.... eeeeeekkkkkk!!  So I tried putting plain centres in the middle of the blocks but eeeeekkkkk...  So... I've just packed up my blocks and will do something a lot simpler than Bonnie's Grand Illusions at a later date.

Now I'm going to really concentrate on Brenda's Churn Dash Challenge... really I am... I really am... I'm going to start today, right now in fact!!!!!!!!

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