Mystery Quilts - have you done any ?
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All have been asking for information on the next mystery adventure. I have just posted a thread in 'blocks of the month' but you can follow this link to the thread. Make sure you book mark.
Blue Sky's Mystery Adventure
Blue Sky's Mystery Adventure
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I love mystery quilts. It helps to view prior mysteries by the designer to see if it is your style. Here's a couple of my early ones.
Waterfall
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Star Quilt
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Waterfall
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Star Quilt
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Cat owned those are both great - but the second one is my favorite Was it very hard ? How many parts were involved ? And lastly- I never thought to look at previous Mysteries to check out the style , Thanks for the tip
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I'm doing my first now. I'm not ordinarily a fan of mystery quilts - I'm not even a fan of quilts made with a specific pattern, I like to make (or re-design) my own.
But this one caught my eye because some of the ladies had already started it so I had an opportunity to get the general idea - it's a sampler quilt and I always wanted to do a sampler of different blocks. I also had a lot of scraps, and a ton of white on cream for the background so it was a perfect opportunity.
A bunch of us are doing here on QB it's called "Just Take 2" and you can find the thread if you do a search on that.
The Mystery BOM is for the most part free. They deliver blocks twice a month on two different websites (once at the first, and once at the 15th). But it's only free for 30 days after it's first posted, after that I think you have to pay $2.00 or something. It started Jan 1 - so the first and second sets of blocks are no longer free.
It's fun. but like I said, I wouldn't have done it if all the stars didn't align just right
But this one caught my eye because some of the ladies had already started it so I had an opportunity to get the general idea - it's a sampler quilt and I always wanted to do a sampler of different blocks. I also had a lot of scraps, and a ton of white on cream for the background so it was a perfect opportunity.
A bunch of us are doing here on QB it's called "Just Take 2" and you can find the thread if you do a search on that.
The Mystery BOM is for the most part free. They deliver blocks twice a month on two different websites (once at the first, and once at the 15th). But it's only free for 30 days after it's first posted, after that I think you have to pay $2.00 or something. It started Jan 1 - so the first and second sets of blocks are no longer free.
It's fun. but like I said, I wouldn't have done it if all the stars didn't align just right
#39
Our Quilts of Valor group started one right before Thanksgiving. We chose our own colors and did all the cutting. Then DH and I left town until after the 1st of Jan. to be with the children's families for the holidays. They were supposed to email me the directions but I didn't get instructions while I was gone. When I returned they explained that they had found some discrepancies in the instructions and didn't want me struggling with them all by myself so they waited until I returned to straighten them out. As I work on it I realize it wasn't so much the directions as it is the fact that there are just so dang many pieces and seams in this quilt that it is a PIA to square up the HST and the ironing is a nightmare. It will be pretty when I finish it but right now it is daunting to just get it pieced together. I hope to have it finished by the end of the week and will post a picture of it when I do.
I really like the 4 Super Bowl Quilts you all posted. Wish that had been the quilt I am working on. This one may put me off of mystery quilts permanently.
I really like the 4 Super Bowl Quilts you all posted. Wish that had been the quilt I am working on. This one may put me off of mystery quilts permanently.
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