Grand Illusion - Bonnie Hunter's Mystery Quilt 2014
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Michelleoc--I am leaning towards using a navy in place of black. I love the yellow, teal, green and pink but do not like to use black. I wont really decided until I see some of the pieces come together to get a better idea of the block design. If the design didn't call for black, I would be happy to follow along as a mystery but I'm not comfortable with forging ahead with black.
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I popped into this thread and now I want to give it a try! But....I don't really understand what a Mystery Quilt is? Can someone point me to or give me a good description? I did read through the intro on Bonnie Hunter's site and, since it was on the way from picking up my DD from school, stopped at a Lowe's for the colour chips.
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I popped into this thread and now I want to give it a try! But....I don't really understand what a Mystery Quilt is? Can someone point me to or give me a good description? I did read through the intro on Bonnie Hunter's site and, since it was on the way from picking up my DD from school, stopped at a Lowe's for the colour chips.
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This will take you to images of past mystery quilts. They look challenging!
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Gosh, those are quite intricate! I may not be up for this...but I guess I won't know until I try.
With regard to fabrics, the ones I've seen in this thread are all scrappy. Does anyone think using Kona solids for the six colours would work out? I'm leaning in that direction, as my stash is light on these colours.
With regard to fabrics, the ones I've seen in this thread are all scrappy. Does anyone think using Kona solids for the six colours would work out? I'm leaning in that direction, as my stash is light on these colours.
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miss_sonja - Bonnie give very clear explanations on how to do each step of her Mystery quilts. She will say - cut so many squares out of this fabric and so many squares out of that fabric and sew them together. That kind of thing and that will be all you do for one week. Then another week she will have you cut triangles out of two other fabrics and sew them together. It is not until you have all these small sections done that you start sewing things together. It is all done step by step, and when you get to the last week it is amazing what you have accomplished. I know you will learn a lot and really enjoy the process, at least I do!
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Gosh, those are quite intricate! I may not be up for this...but I guess I won't know until I try.
With regard to fabrics, the ones I've seen in this thread are all scrappy. Does anyone think using Kona solids for the six colours would work out? I'm leaning in that direction, as my stash is light on these colours.
With regard to fabrics, the ones I've seen in this thread are all scrappy. Does anyone think using Kona solids for the six colours would work out? I'm leaning in that direction, as my stash is light on these colours.
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miss_sonja: come on, join in. I've never done a mystery quilt either. Her quilts do look very challenging but I'm looking at it as learning new skills. As for using solids, I think that would be really nice. It makes me think of the peacefulness of Amish quilts.
So, to those of you that have done MQ before, any tips for us newbies?
So, to those of you that have done MQ before, any tips for us newbies?
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I think there are going to be a lot of us first-timers this year. I'm also going to do it--a first time mystery quilt. I've never done mystery quilts before because I always wanted to know what pattern I was doing before I started.
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