My sentiments exactly about Bonnie's mystery quilts.  Too small of pieces, too fussy and too many that would look alike.  I do enjoy seeing how many change it up to make it their own way.  I love the scrappy quilt patterns on her site and have made may of them--just no mysteries.

I've always felt a bit betrayed at a quilt show when I see a quilt that I really like, then turn the corner and see 3 more just like it.

Yep, hundreds and hundreds in the same colors.  Bonnie leans towards using very similar colors in many of her quilts.  The are not my favorites.  SO I went with yellows/black/greys and B&W neutrals.  I'm very happy with my choices as it gives it a different look.  

I do so much sewing on charity quilts that I keep every Bonnie quilt I make for myself.  I don't do them all though.  This is only my 5th one and that's plenty for the two beds in the house.  My 3rd bedroom is my sewing room..

Happy Sewing Today to You!  Love your military code handle too.. 

I use scraps a lot but have never done a Bonnie Hunter quilt.  I'm with you one the narrow strips.  I am not great a sewing a straight line for any distance.  The wider the strip, the more forgiving.

Yeah, I don't care for doing her mystery quilts so much as a million pieces to make something I may not love...however, it's fun to watch and see :D 

That bread looks amazing!  Wish I was your neighbor.

Me too.  We could eat bread w/ all kinds of toppings - and have our very own Quilting Parties... all the time.. 

so I've been playing around with my novelty fabrics - they've missed me.  I decided I was going to cut strips 2.5" wide & 4.5" wide from all the scatter type prints just to make it a bit faster.  Fussy cutting is necessary on larger prints but much of my stash is the small prints - this way I don't have so much to refold after every quilt.   So since I had a bunch of 2.5" strips already cut I was looking at quilts that used noddles.  I found several, already posted pictures of a couple posted under a separate thread ("interesting jelly roll idea"0.  Here's another I've started - remember now why I don't like on point settings - I'm getting a crick in my neck looking at the strips on the wall side ways -

this is another idea from Jordan fabrics - called beads.  I made mine using 2.5 & 4.5 fabrics.  The background is also made from 4.5 squares - I didn't use her construction method at all.  But her instructions work well if you are using precuts.

I'm also using up scraps making a bunch (200+) 4 patches.  Rather than using 9 patches like in the pattern below I'm using 4 - 4 patches instead.  9 patches don't translate to 4" finished very well and I really want to use those 4.5 precuts.  So I'm making 4 patches that are 2" finished - yup crazy but it used up ALL the little odd scraps left from previous quilts.  Great leader/ender project.

Your version of  "Beads" is just awesome, Dee, and looks just so easy to make!  Thank you very, very much for sharing with us.

That looks great.