Welcome Aboard the Mystery Quilt Train - Never Too Late to Join the Ride!
 

　　Welcome to the Quilting Board’s Mystery Quilt, designed for all levels of quilting abilities, from novice to expert. Enjoy the journey over the next two months!

Your square will work well with a scrappy look, or with themed colors, or with a monochromatic scheme. You will be guided along your mystery tour toward making a 28” square. At this point you can decide if you want to add borders to complete this as a wall hanging (34”) or perhaps a crib quilt (40“ square). If you wish, you can make four or six or these 28” sections, and make a lap quilt. Naturally, you will need four times or six times the fabric for a larger quilt.

The 28” square will be completed in five lessons, the first lesson being posted below, and the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP], 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] , 4[SUP]th[/SUP] and 5[SUP]th[/SUP] sets of directions will be added to this thread every two weeks on 3/5, 3/19, 4/2 and 4/16. If you wish to go slower, no problem -- take your time, there are no Quilt Police to say you have to do this in two-week intervals. We all would love to see your pictures posted as you chose your fabrics and the mystery unravels.I have chosen the fabrics shown in the picture at the bottom of this posting. I picked the blue and orange floral first, then picked 4 fabrics to coordinate with it. The bright orange (color F - the little piece of paper didn't show in the photo) will be a dominant color and will show prominently in the quilt If asked, I will try and help you choose without giving away the mystery.

Fabric requirements listed below are to make a 28” square. You will need additional fabric for borders if you want to complete as a wall hanging or crib quilt -- I would figure on ¼ yard more for the wall hanging, and ½“ yard for a crib quilt plus binding.

Yes, there are 6 colors in this quilt, but not large amounts of each. I think you will be pleased with the results. Make sure your printed fabric measures 42 across -- some unprinted selvedges are getting wider these days, and you will need this width of printed material. (Or an additional WOF if you will need to cut an additional piece)

CHOOSE YOUR FABRICS
Color A ½ yard
Color B C D E and F -- ¼ yard of each

CUTTINGColor A - cut one WOF (width of fabric) 2-½” wide and three WOF 3-¼” wideColor B C D and E - cut one WOF 2-½” wide of EACH of the four fabricsColor F - cut four pieces that measure 4-½” x 9-½”. Cut two WOF that measure 1-½” wide

Bookmark this page and check back thread on March 5[SUP]th[/SUP] for Lesson 2. Welcome aboard the Mystery Tour Train.

(approved by Patrice 2-20-2012)

Thank you for doing this Judy. I am in. Sounds like fun. I love mysteries.

Welcome aboard! Can't wait to see your fabrics when you have them picked out.

I "might" join this Mystery.

Could you please clarify ....

About the colours ... Do you have guidance, such as lights/darks/mediums/brights/blenders/prints etc.
or just choose 6 fabrics that go together?

I also noted that you said F is a dominant ... yet that A is the one we need 1/2 yard.

Thank you!

Here are the fabrics I am thinking. A thru F, left to right. Are these OK?

Oh this sounds great & I want to participate, too!! :D I will go & check my fabric's to see if I can come up with six that go together. Can't wait for the next lesson to get started!! Thank you for putting this together Judy.
:D :D :D :D

This looks fun. I will check to see what will work for this. By responding will the thread come to my mailbox? I forget how to join unless I just look for it.

QuiltE - I just picked a print I liked and found 4 fabrics to go with it. The F color is most dominent if it is a dark or a bright because it will be in the center of the quilt.

Florence, your colors are perfect!

Sulabug, nice to see you again - been a while. Welcome.

It depends on your settings. This is what I do.
1. Go to Thread Tools above the first post.
2. On the Dropdown menu I choose Subscribe to this Thread.
3. On the next page, go to Notification Type.
4. I choose Instant Notification by email.
5. Click Add Subscription.

Thanks for the info ... one more simple question ... should A be a print?

Sounds like fun, I'm in. Now off to pick fabrics :-)

I don't need another project but this looks like fun. I'm going to check on fabrics. :)

I've selected my fabrics. Do you think these will be OK?

Paula, love your fabrics!

Your choice - anything goes that you like. And this is where the mysery comes in! It becomes a surprise.

They look great!

This looks like fun! I'm going to check my stash and see what I can come up with. Thanks for doing this mystery!

I think I might like to do this... am adding thread in case I decide to...
Thanks

Thanks for the further info ... I'll look thru my stash!

This looks like so much fun! I am looking forward to participating and seeing what the end result is!

I am willing to give this a try. Am also doing a mystery quilt with my quilt guild that includes applique'.

me too, finding fabric

This looks like it could be really fun, I will have to look through my stash to see what I have!!!

I'm going to try this n look thru my stash today.

Searching my stash then off to shop for whatever I need to get this going. It sounds like fun and something I need to get me motivated. Thanks bunches for doing this.

Welcome to all of you who posted in the last 12 hours! This will be great, and so much fun to see all the different fabric choices people will be making..

OK, going thru my fabrics now, Thanks!

Some please tell "Emsunfire" these fabrics will not work so she has to send them to me.

I have my fabrics cut and will post a pic as soon as I figure out the camera my DH bought me this weekend. Or should I say if I figure it out. Emsunfire, send those pretty fabrics to rainagade. You think that will work?

I doubt it. lol

Emsunfire, those fabrics will not work at all, you must send them to rainagade. She is need of them so you have to pick others. I am sure if you contact her by pm, she will give you her address.

Ok, paintmejudy, you said that we can use our scraps. So how do I go about using my scraps for this? I want to make the lap size. I have enough of a red leaf on black print fabric, and would pick out of my scraps reds, oranges, blues, and whatever else in the medium tones to coordinate, but if they are scraps, how best to do this?

Would it work as a scrappy, or should I pick coordinating fabrics,you know the ones I bought to use, but instead get it out carress it put it back in the bin{the ones I just can't cut]

I'm in. This will be my first mystery quilt!

I am in. I haven't done anything on this board for a while. Sounds like fun.

OK, I think I may have figured the camera out enough to take a pic and post it but that is about it. Here is the the product of clue #1.

OMG everyone is wey ahead of me!!!!!! I'm in, I'm in, Just let me get my fabric and I'll be right back. Oh Thanks Judy for doing this. It sounds REALLY FUN!!! be right back

I just figured something out. When I buy fabric because I love it then can't figure out what to do with it....I make a mystery quilt! this one will be my 3rd...decision made for me! I will shop my stash tonight and post a pic tomorrow!

Thank you Judy for doing this fun thing!

My fabric choices
 

Will these work Judy??? A through F in order.................................I hope so cause I'm going to cut them right now. See ya on March 5th..... can't wait..

I wanna play :) will look at my stash and see which fabrics speak to me .. lol "Ya know some of them FQ's are so disrespectful..they actually scream at me... and say "IS IT MY TURN YET?" Ha-ha looking forward to the fun. Thanks Judy for putting this Mystery Train together. :)