Mystery Quilt-A-Longs
01-04-2016, 06:23 AM
#11
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Originally Posted by sewbizgirl
Not a really impressive "looker", but fun and will make a good kid's donation quilt. I always appreciate the work people put into giving us these fun mystery QALs.
01-04-2016, 09:34 AM
#12
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Here are some of my mystery tops from New Year's this year.
Quiltbug.com. This one needs a couple of borders to make it the right size. It will either be a 2" and a 5" border, or 2", 1", 4", I haven't decided yet. I have lots of this line of fabric, so plenty of choice for borders.
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quilting.about.com. I love this one. She gave several setting options, and I picked this because I had the right number of blocks, and it made the size I wanted
Working on the setting triangles on my own, because hers were just plain squares. I was a little disappointed in the instructions, which never said exactly how many pieces you needed - so I have lots of odds and ends left over, since 30 was the goal and I made 20 blocks but cut some units for 30 following the direction. But as I said, LOVE the end result. More intricate than most 1-day mysteries, but it was completely do-able, with no pre-cutting.
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This quilt came from a yahoo group I belong to. It's a mystery that's available on the web (can't recall the author - Cathy something). Lots of fun, and another donation quilt for me. I left the borders off, or it would have been too big for the group it's going to.
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And this one - I cut strips for 2 of the above mystery, but didn't like what it did with the background for a single fabric. So I mixed it up, used as many of the bits as I could and came up with this quilt.
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I also worked on Merry Mayhem's mystery, but only got 1 block done so far so no pictures of that one. And of course I'm working on Bonnie's mystery - I was completely caught up until the reveal. Will get back to it soon.
Quiltbug.com. This one needs a couple of borders to make it the right size. It will either be a 2" and a 5" border, or 2", 1", 4", I haven't decided yet. I have lots of this line of fabric, so plenty of choice for borders.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]539389[/ATTACH]
quilting.about.com. I love this one. She gave several setting options, and I picked this because I had the right number of blocks, and it made the size I wanted
Working on the setting triangles on my own, because hers were just plain squares. I was a little disappointed in the instructions, which never said exactly how many pieces you needed - so I have lots of odds and ends left over, since 30 was the goal and I made 20 blocks but cut some units for 30 following the direction. But as I said, LOVE the end result. More intricate than most 1-day mysteries, but it was completely do-able, with no pre-cutting.[ATTACH=CONFIG]539390[/ATTACH]
This quilt came from a yahoo group I belong to. It's a mystery that's available on the web (can't recall the author - Cathy something). Lots of fun, and another donation quilt for me. I left the borders off, or it would have been too big for the group it's going to.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]539391[/ATTACH]
And this one - I cut strips for 2 of the above mystery, but didn't like what it did with the background for a single fabric. So I mixed it up, used as many of the bits as I could and came up with this quilt.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]539392[/ATTACH]
I also worked on Merry Mayhem's mystery, but only got 1 block done so far so no pictures of that one. And of course I'm working on Bonnie's mystery - I was completely caught up until the reveal. Will get back to it soon.
01-04-2016, 01:52 PM
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Those are great, Krista! Wow, you are so productive.... All the ones you showed are cute, but I really like the one you made up yourself (the last one) the best! Thanks for sharing your 'mysteries'.
01-05-2016, 04:28 AM
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Location: Boothbay Maine
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I have only had time to participate in BH's Allietare... since I work full-time I am limited on the amount of time I get to spend in my sewing room. As it is, I am desperately trying to catch up but have just completed Part 3 and now ready to work on Part 4 this evening. I would like to get this one completed before PaintmeJudy starts one of her Mystery Trains (hopefully in February). I always enjoy those too!
01-05-2016, 06:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: USA
Posts: 322
So cute!
I'm working on the Merry Mayhem's QAL, and enjoying it. I did one a few years a go and was impressed with how clear and easy the directions were. I had a wee bit of ripping out to do that time, but it was due to pilot error, and not the directions.
Blessings,
Lisa
I'm working on the Merry Mayhem's QAL, and enjoying it. I did one a few years a go and was impressed with how clear and easy the directions were. I had a wee bit of ripping out to do that time, but it was due to pilot error, and not the directions.
Blessings,
Lisa
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