Hello, I have been working on a Mystery Quilt, that I started through my local quilt guild.
The first month September 2014 we received a sheet of instructions, how much fabric to buy, and cutting instructions for the first two blocks, It is a two color quilt.
Since it is a Mystery we have no idea what the end quilt will look like.
Block 5 ( made 17)
Plus the cutting instructions for the boarders, they are cut out also.
January 19th we will get another sheet of instructions.
I am excited, as when all is said and done, I will have a lovely quilt top to finish
and enter in our local quilt show in October 2015. I'll post more pictures as it progresses.
Last year I signed up for the Challenge Quilt... they give you a paper bag with instructions and a fat quarter of some really challenging fabric in it and by August at the Annual Picnic, you bring the finished project. The size limit was no larger than 50 x 50 inches. Because of my MIL's illness the main part of the quilt was finished by July, I started it in March, but I did not have time to put the bias Celtic chain on it. Then the day of the picnic it was over 100 degrees and I stayed home in my air conditioned house. Since I am a red head I don't do heat well.
The guild does not meet in December. I had finished my last two Mystery quilt blocks I had received instructions for in November. So I had time during the holidays to make the bias binding, made of the challage fabric and place it, pin it and hand sew it on the quilt. The tops of the Scottish thistle were fussy cut out of the original fat quarter I received in the bag, I ordered more fabric from the shop it was bought at and cut bias strips for my binding and Celtic chain.
Me sewing the 1/2 inch bias strips down on the quilt by hand.
The finished quilt.
Thank you for stopping by.
