And here it is...
my Orca Bay  is finished!!!!
Ably assisted by Daisy the wonderdog, I attempted to get the whole quilt in the picture but it's a little large for my Kitchen floor.

I'm so happy with the way it's turned out.  My eldest DD has already claimed it as hers. 
I thought it was looking a little dark, but I think it looks fine now.

I've been waiting patiently, (well, a little impatiently actually) for my red and white fabrics to turn up in the post.  Just Takes 2  started at the beginning of January without me.  I've been looking at everyone's blocks as they stitched the first months worth.
Thanksfully my lovely red and white solids finally arrived and I've been able to get a start.  A wonderful pile of colour, freshly washed.

 Six blocks of the first 9 completed.

I'd forgotten how nice solid colour fabric is to work with.  It's a nice weight and  irons well.   I'm using Moda Bella Solids.

I'm all ready to get going on my Orca Bay quilt too.
Blocks are all ready to go, even for the pieced borders.

I've been working along on my Bonnie K. Hunter mystery quilt - "Orca Bay".
I'm quite the tortoise on this quilt, slowly moving through each of the steps.  I'm currently up to Step 7 of 8, so I'm nearing the finish line.
There was quite a bit of string piecing onto a paper foundation, I got quite good at tearing paper strips off!  These blocks are looking very nice now, all trimmed up to size.

These red string blocks were sliced in half on the diagonal, then trimmed to look neat and lovely.

 Onwards to lots of triangles!These look OK from a distance, but I always have trouble with keeping everything nice and square.  A little judicious trimming helped a lot.

String pieced flying geese.  Don't these look nice and tidy?

And don't these Ohio Star blocks look very elegant?
I love the colour combination, although I'm not a big user of black in my quilts.
I'm enjoying this quilt, I did have huge doubts earlier on in the process, but I'm loving it now.
More Sewing is in my future tonight!

Stitching away madly on Step 4 of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt.
I'm just a little behind!

Step 2, 3 1/2 " string blocks, I still have to take the paper off and trim to size.
Skipping Step #3 for the moment, on to Step #4.
5 1/2 " Red string blocks.  Happy to say I'm 2/3 finished stitching these.  I'm prefering not to think about the de-papering and trimming at the moment!

I don't keep strings, so I cut strips from my red fabric bin.  I've made several mystery quilts with Bonnie that need large amounts of reds, so I'm very happy to say that I'm almost to the end of a tub of fabric that has been around since the early 90's!  LOL.
I really enjoyed looking at the selvedges, some early Judie Rothermel and Jinny Beyer.

Happily waiting together for trimming and de-papering.  And then on to Step #3 which involves more cutting of some (so as not to frighten myself- it's actually about 400 I think) black and neutral triangles.