paintmejudy

And here we go, ready or not!

FIVE-COLOR QUILT
Cut one WOF strip each of A, B, C, and D fabrics, each measuring 4-½” wide. Cut 12 pieces measuring 2-½” x 4-½” from EACH of the four A B C and D fabrics.

Arrange 12 of the strips in a color placement pleasing to you. Colors do not have to be in order of ABCD, but it would be best to use your background color in one of the inside positions. (My background is in the #3 position) Piece together along the 4-½” side using Ό” seams.

Picture, top to bottom shows:
the 8 extra background pieces
12 strips sewn together
the 2 background pieces sewn to each end of the strip made from the 12 pieces

Now you will need an additional eight rectangles of the background fabric measuring 2-½” x 4-½” wide. (You should have already cut and set aside 4 of these from the step 3 - I had you cut eight pieces when you only needed four.)

Sew one of these background rectangles to each side of the 12-piece strip you just made. Press.
Make three more identical sections like this, for a a total of 4 strips each having 14 rectangles.


SCRAPPY Option:
So sorry -- I forgot to take a picture of this step before I sewed it into the quilt top. I think you can see what I did by looking at the picture

Using scraps:
Cut 48 pieces 2-½” x 4-½” of your scraps. Cut eight 2-½” x 4-½” of the background color.

Lay out 12 of the scrappy rectangles in a manner pleasing to your eye, . Sew along the 4-½” side with Ό” seams. At each end of this strip, place a background rectangle. Press. You will have 14 pieces in this section.

Make three more sections like this, mixing up the order of your strip placement to avoid duplicate fabric placement. Make it random.

Using charm squares:
Take the leftover charms and cut to 2-½” wide, sew 12 strips together along the 5" side, press and trim the strip to 4-½” wide. If you don’t have enough of the charm packs left, cut 2-½” x 5” pieces from scrap. Press, then trim this piece to 4-½” wide. (Easier to cut the strip to correct width than to have to trim all your individual little charm squares)

Cut 8 background fabric pieces measuring 2-½” x 4-½”. Add a background rectangle to each end and press. You will have 14 pieces of 2-½ x 4-½” pieces sewn together. Make three more identical strips of these sections.

paintmejudy

Yes, coopah, we also ate it as a dessert. And I seem to remember, sometimes I put it over vanilla ice cream. Stewed rhubarb sounds a bit on the strange side, doesn't it? But that's what we called it, too. My mother-in-law was the one who taught me how to make it, so it is a really old dessert - she was born in 1905.

haylillan

thanks Judy, now off to vist daughter for the day

Cindy60545

got it! will post pic in a little while.

SunlitenSmiles

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thanks Judy would hug you but I am holding my rotary cutter

glad you are feeling better and stronger !

yayaquilts

Where is everyone?!?!

Did you all fall asleep in the club car after eating all those goodies!?!?!?! Guess I am the only one copying step 4--of course, most of you are way ahead of me, as I haven't actually started working on this Mystery quilt! (no one had posted when I started my reply! Glad to see a few of you are awake afterall!!!)

I haven't been able to do a lot of sewing lately do to recovering from some surgery--but feeling pretty good so should be able to get b ack in the swing of quilting soon-much to my hubby's dismay!! He just doesn't get my love of sewing and quilting and fabrics!!

I still need to put the border on the last Mystery Train quilt and then finish; sandwich and quilt my quilt for the Quilter's Swap; finish several boom blocks; sew all the steps for the QCA's MQ6-I've just started step 1 on this one!: finish a "maxi" ruffled skirt for my DGD; and........my list is so long! I will make this one, too, though, as I just loved the last one and have no doubt this new one will be so cute! Hope to get some sewing in this weekend.

coopah

Yaya, we're all in the sewing car(s). See you there ASAP.
Judy, my gram was born in 1903, so stewed rhubarb for dessert must have been a thing back then, although she made it until her death in 1977. Did you ever have date pudding for dessert? Oh, man. She made that about once a year...served with whipped cream, but I digress.
Stepfanib, the coral leans more toward the pink than the red, but has more orange than pink. Found it at JoAnne's...it's way closer than my LQS, so sometimes have to shop there.
Everyone: I just so enjoy this train ride and seeing what everyone is creating!

Havplenty

judy i luv your purple cutting mat. who is it made by? also glad you are feeling better.

i luv the pics of everyone's progress. i have so many posts to catch up on. rhubarb lemonade. gotta try that recipe. now to just find the post again.

mary

babyfireo4

Yay! Can't wait to get these sewn up. I still need to sew step #3 but I should be able to get that and this one done on monday Payton's all better and we have a weekend of birthday parties to go to.

I'm dropping of some chocolate chip cookies in the dining car.

SunlitenSmiles

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wow.....the cutting was fast ....... but this pleasing arrangement thingy......oh, my this may take all week....changed it a million times already......this is like "quilt as desired" wowie, kazowie ...... what fun !!!!!!

cannot help making 'how it is going to all go together' guesses now ....... ok, that is not helping ....just changed the order again.

this is going to take me all week, I can see that now.