catrancher

I just finished this quilt top today. It was from a 3-part mystery quilt series from American Quilter magazine, the third part of which was just published. The magazine title was "Beyond the Block Mystery Quilt," based on the Beyond the Block book where you can see more quilts like this.

It was to be a challenge quilt for my guild, but then I grew disenchanted with my guild and stopped going to meetings. The challenge was to make a quilt from a children's book title, and it should also be from one technique that we hadn't tried before. Mystery quilts were new to me, and so I decided on this one. My focus fabric was floral, and so I chose The Secret Garden as my book title, thus the name. It has 12 different fabrics.

This was definitely the most challenging quilt I've made (my 30th). The blocks were all strangely shaped, and there was a lot of trimming to fit involved. It got very confusing. Still, it came out okay. Just a few puckers and a little cheating, and it all came together. I think I'll free motion quilt it, but I haven't decided yet. I still need to decide on a back for it.

amma

Beautiful! I love the bright colors :D:D:D

Kathy-Pgh

Love it! was thinking of trying it and you have inspired me to make it too.

Cyn

Very pretty!

mequilter

Very pretty, I love the bright, cheery look to it!

erstan947

I love your quilt. It's so fresh and bright!:)

T-Bones mom

Wow, that is amazing. You did an awesome job on it.

bjnicholson

That is beautiful! I love the colors and the design :thumbup:

Jingle

Very pretty and bright. You did a great job.

lalaland

That is one of the most interesting (and challenging looking) quilts I've seen, I really like it!