Thread: Border Creek Station Mystery Quilt - Quilter's Celebration

It's that time of year, time to begin Border Creek Station's mystery quilt. This years is a celebration year as this is the 10th mystery quilt.

If anyone else is interested in joining, please check out Border Creek Station's website ( http://www.bordercreekstation.com/mysteryquilt.html ). There is a list of stores across Canada and the U.S. that are participating, including our local quilt shop Bear's Paw Quilts in Whitehorse, YT!

Our local shop meets once a month (second saturday) to discuss the quilt in progress and pick up our next clues.

We just received our first clue this weekend, so the cutting begins!

I had previously picked out the fabrics I wanted to use. However, after our first meeting, I realized that my line up was a bit too busy. I had a lot of feature fabrics. So I decided to shop a little more and move my line up around a bit and I came out with a much calmer quilt, still in the same colour scheme I wanted.

Here are my fabrics...I'm sharing the first line up I made so you can see the difference.

Thanks for the link. I LOVE mystery quilts!
Your fabrics are absolutely gorgeous. No matter what the end pattern, you're going to have one beautiful quilt.

Originally Posted by b.zang

Thanks for the link. I LOVE mystery quilts!
Your fabrics are absolutely gorgeous. No matter what the end pattern, you're going to have one beautiful quilt.

Oh thank you...the shades of brown is an absolute favourite of mine so I'm glad I got to use a colour scheme I'm happy with.

I really love the stripe fabric I found this weekend, it's so much fun!!!

QuiltE and Anael, I'd love to see your fabrics again, I look forward to working on this with you and any others who want to play! HouseDragon had seemed interested...what do you say, are you playing too?

This was my last fabric selection but I might need more advice. Yours are all in the same color range and mine are not so that might be a problem. I'm still not sure about the purple fabric.

2 purples and 2 greens blend in a bit, I would add some orange/pumpkin - just my thoughts

Originally Posted by Anael

This was my last fabric selection but I might need more advice. Yours are all in the same color range and mine are not so that might be a problem. I'm still not sure about the purple fabric.

Originally Posted by Anael

This was my last fabric selection but I might need more advice. I'm still not sure about the purple fabric.

Hi Anael, I've been looking at your line up...I think what we need to look at are fabrics 4, 5 and 8.

In the Border Creek line up ( http://www.bordercreekstation.com/mysteryquilt.html ) these 3 are looking very similar, with just a bit of difference. In that muted green look. If you look at mine they are all browns. Mine are small patterned in browns with 8 being darker. If you look at Krista's they are very similar as well. Her three have a bit of a colour variation but the patterning is similar.

Your three go together but are not similar. #4 is a brown with a large busy pattern in purples. Your #5 is brown with a less busy patterning and not much colour variation, and then your #8 is dark purple. They go together on their own and would make a great quilt but I think what is making you rethink is that the 3 are too different.

Does that make sense?

The hints say that 4 and 5 can be the same fabric if you like, which cuts down the stress of choosing...and 8 is just a bit stronger. These 3 fabrics make the quilt the colour it will be...so if you are looking at a purple quilt...you can leave 8 and change out 4 and 5 to something similar, with a bit of a print, just a bit lighter.

Does that help (I have lost my question marks for some reason when typing this)

I'm doing this one, too. Here are my fabrics. Sherri was at my local quilt store while I was shopping, and gave her blessing on the choices She did suggest my fabric 7 (green) might be too much, so I bought enough of #1 on her suggestion, to use for inner border if I decide it needs to be calmer.
I understand that 1,2,3 are all background colours. 6 is your "pop" of colour. 7 is an inner border

My biggest issue with mysteries is picking colours - so I told the shop owner I'd only participate if she helped me pick. Here's hoping I like the end result - so far, the first piecing is feeling a little dull in my colour choices (but I did tell her I wanted fall colours).

I am looking forward to seeing how these gorgeous fabrics end up.

Please remember progress piccies.

I just noticed - some are a month behind I got step number 2 last weekend but the original poster just received #1, so I will try to avoid posting any pics for fear of spoiling the mystery for others.