Category Archives: Mystery Quilt

Mystery Quilt, Quilting

Ending the year with a new project

Joined another FB group – The Quilting Company Mystery Quilt group.

I found them at the end of their last quilt and it looked like so much fun I had to join to see what else they have up their sleeves. They ran quick redo of a mystery quilt that was run in a magazine and since it was a cold and blustery weekend here and I found I stack of fabric perfect for it, I figured “Why not?”

Well, “Why not?” is because now my room is a mess again.

Oh well, that’s what it’s there for and I am making use of something I had sitting around.

So I am counting that as a win-win.

Finished Tops, Mystery Quilt, Quilting

Fills me with warmth, and will give warmth to another

What could be better than giving warmth to another…

This Mystery Quilt was awesome, fun, frustrating, challenging but most of all…rewarding in so many ways.  I can’t wait to do the quilting on this too.

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Join us as we embark on a new quilt challenge for 2016 and then our 2017 contest. Everyone loves a mystery and this is a great one to top off 2016 and lead us into 2017.
Project Linus – Gracies Get Well Garden

Mystery Quilt, Row by Row

48 to 24 to 12 – the art of quilting

Well, another week, another clue, another block!

24 blocksGo this one done today. I’m loving how this is turning out. However, I found out that some of my first blocks didn’t go together very well and it’s showing up now. I love how it this is coming together though.

12 blocks Today, I also went to a new quilt shop, well they have been there about a year and a half but I found them because they are part of the Row by Row Experience that starts up pretty soon. Nice little shop in Cambridge. Of course I had to buy something: Row by row license plate, pattern (to add to my growing pile of things I want to make and 1 yard of really cute fabric for a baby quilt.

Mystery Quilt, Quilting

Catch Up Day(s)

So it’s B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L outside beyond belief this weekend and what did I do…catch up on the Mystery Quilt over at Heather Spence Designs – where is my head!!

Clue 1:

MQ Clue #1

Can I say I HATE pressing seams open – well I am saying it.

The instructions called for sewing 2 1/2 squares together, but I did strip piecing instead. And I even messed that up. I miss counted/sorted and had 2 middle strips with 1 outer strip and thought I was so smart. Until I went to put them together into this block – ugh!  I had to make a bunch more of the outer block and I don’t know what I’m going to do with 18 extra center pieces.

Clue 2:

Clue #2

Can I say I HATE pressing seams open – well, I am saying it again.

This one wasn’t so bad. Went together pretty quickly – which scares me. What’s coming up next.

 

 

Clue 3:

Clue #3

Can I say I HATE pressing seams open – Well that’s what the title of this MQ should be!!!

I just have to square up and I’m all caught up!

block stackIt’s quite a stack of blocks, if I do say so myself.

Off to do something outside now!!!

Mystery Quilt, Quilting

Best Mystery Ever!!!!

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that this mystery quilt would turn into this.  I sat for over an hour trying to layout those pieces into something after last weeks clue. I was stuck on some kind of star, some how, most quilts are stars. Not this one.

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Who would have thought this stack would turn into this.

 

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This is going on TOP of the pile of quilt tops that I have to be done. This will make such an amazing picnic quilt.  I did have to do a bit of ripping again this morning, but it was all well worth it.

I can’t say enough about this quilt. I am so in for the next one!!!!

I did this thru Missouri Star Quilting Forum and https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysteryquilt/ – the designer/hostess is Heather Spence.