You can still do the mystery. Bonnie gives instructions for her method but says the important thing is to get the correct sized units. You can use whatever method works best for you.

Got my paint chips and realize I need some fabric! Found the right color for the yellow/gold and went ahead and got one black for the entire quilt--just did not have enough. Dug through my stash and came up with about 1/2 the pink and little over 1/2 the turquoise/teal. Figure I have plenty of green as I gathered lots for my Celtic Solstice--which is only about 1/2 done! So in next 4 weeks I plan to work on that since I finished most Christmas presents (still a tree skirt for DD)today. When it comes to quilting I'm so ADD!

I dug out my unfinished CS this week, too. The big challenge is figuring out how many more pieces to cut to finish up my units. I had made myself notes but managed to misplace them. But I'm off to a pretty good start. (Or finish depending on how you look at it.) Still having trouble with those darn chevrons though.

My friend is doing this quilt. I thought it was very interesting to use paint chip samples to pick out your fabrics.

I bought the yellow I really like for this quilt. And it's on clearance at Missouri Star Quilt, yeah!

https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop...yellow-yardage

This is the first time that I will be doing a MQ. I've decided to go with all solid colors. I hope it comes out OK. I purchased my fabrics from CT.

That's good to know! I think I've made almost 20 quilts, but I've never ever done a triangle. Well other than the 2 in the wall hanging in my avatar! Do you think I'll be up over my head?? Maybe I'll make a half size?

That should be very interesting! An Amish version of BH's mystery quilt. I hope you post pictures!


Jane

I don't think you'll be in over your head at all. I think you will have conquered how to do triangles by the time you finish. I feel like I made a hundred million chevrons last year! By the time I finished CS I was matching points more precisely and felt more confident about my skills. It forced me into "practice, practice, practice" mode.

Thanks, Nilla! I'll try and see if I can keep up and see if I can do a learn traingles once and for all!

Lots of us make half size.

mine is planned to be half size......that is actually the size I need for guild charity 44X44 will be perfect.

Please give me an honest assessment of my color choices. I'm pretty short on a few colors. http://www.quiltingboard.com/attachm...d=496407&stc=1

I hope to make this mystery quilt- it will be my first, but not my first Bonnie hunter quilt!

I want to make this from my not-so-huge stash, and i want to use Christmas fabrics....I will use gold for the yellow constant, reds for the pink, greens for the greens, black and white neutrals.....but i am stumped with a color substitute for the teals....any thoughts? Royal blues, purples??? I have purple in my stash, but not much of any color of blue....

I'll do that-- thanks Jeanie! Are the darker greens okay? They seem a lot darker than the others. Truth be told I have a lot more darker/ hunter greens than anything else in my stash.

By the way the striped fabric in the center of the greens came from Joanne's. Leftover from my daughters bed quilt I made.

I am sure it will make a lovely Christmas quilt. I would stay away from a blue as it may turn out kind of patriotic depending on your shade of red and blue you choose. I think a purple would work, if you stay towards the red violet. Cannot remember what the yardage is for that but you may want to make that the color that uses the least yardage to keep it not so much impact.

Ahhhh....never thought of the red, white and blue factor! Thank you! :)

a second green might work if there is enough contrast or/and pattern difference between the greens

Maybe if one was pine needles and the other tone on tone stars, sleighs, toys, ornaments.....

Maybe a white on white fabric for the Christmas color question

I'm just a little confused about something from Bonnie's blog where she was showing black and white. She said don't choose a black with much white in it, but underneath that was a picture of mostly whites with black. And then that picture was followed with neutrals.

So does this quilt have blacks,neutrals, and white-n-blacks?

The black with some white she is calling black. 2 1/4 yds total

The white with some black she is calling neutral.
The other lights she is calling neutrals also.
Neutrals Both white with black and other lights 3 yards total.
HTH

Thanks for clarifying.

I personally think the teals would be stunning in a Christmas Quilt.. Anything goes now for Christmas Colors. I found some fun fabric years ago with hot pink, teal and gold. It was a cartoon Santa driving a turquoise 1957 Chevy Convertible. go figure ! Made a darling quilt for my grandson. He still loves it after 8 years.....

I ordered a yellow/gold fabric and it is a lot more gold than I expected, so my colours will be much deeper/richer than Bonnie's. But I need to use fabrics from my stash. I'm not too keen on the B/W, but it is the only piece I have that is large enough. But what I'm really wondering about is the pink. I have two options: a medium pink with a large tone on tone pattern that should provide "movement" in the quilt (something Bonnie tends to emphasize). Or a rose that has a smaller print. Which do you think goes better?

http://www.quiltingboard.com/attachm...d=496526&stc=1

http://www.quiltingboard.com/attachm...d=496527&stc=1

I like the darker rose, too. Plus it adds some variety of scale since your green and blue are both medium scale.

Having just been at the Grand Hotel a couple of weeks ago (and loved it!), and ignoring the fact that I'm trying to get my UFO list down to one page by the end of 2014, and also ignoring the fact that I already have one page of PIGs to do, I think I'm going to try this one. The CS quilt pictures that I've seen people post from last year's MQ are beautiful. I've never made a MQ before and her quilts look a lot more challenging than anything I've done before, so we'll see how it goes. If I can get my printer to work, I'm going to print out instructions today and head to Lowe's. Of course I was at Rosie's last week, before I even knew about this, so I'm going stash diving. As this quilt gets started, will people post on this thread, or will it be moved to another section? I want to see what everyone is doing.

Well I am on the fence - do I really need to start another quilt before I finish the "never ending quilt" that I promised myself was going to get DONE and out of my sewing room and mind this year. But oh how I want to try one of BH MQ. I have the clues for Easy St. and Celtic Sol., do I just save the clues again? Also we bought a motorhome and I cannot handle the spread, want to make a quilt for that. Of course the colors BH has picked would not go. I don't think the motorhome has enough color variation to substitute.

I love reading everyone's comments and hoping to remember what page I am on,lol. Happy quilting ladies and so looking forward to reading and seeing more.

If you're logged on, after you click on the thread you should see View First Unread in the center of the screen just below the title. Click on that and it will take you right to where you left off.

Thanks quiltsrfun! Never saw that before! ;)

Thanks for the input -- the rose it is. I don't really care for pink anyway.

Judging from the last two years, on-going discussions will remain on this thread. Best to subscribe to it, as this "Main" section moves really fast and the threads move to the next page or two very quickly.

Not sure how to subscribe to this thread so here I post my yellow, turquoise, and 1 neutral. I have never done a mystery quilt so this will be number 1. I had to buy 1/4 yards as I have no stash. Now only have to select and purchase the pinks, greens, neutrals, and blacks.
using the paint chips was fun. I think I will use this method again. Lol

Belfrybat ... I also like the darker rose/pink. I think it balances out the other fabrics a bit better.

I think I would keep the teals in there. Royal blue woule be too dark. On the cards she picked teal in the lighter tones...

I wasn't familiar w/ her quilting style, so I googled her quilts, and my those are some busy quilts. I will be in the peanut gallery waiting to see your progress.

Went to another Lowes today and got the cards I was missing. Also picked up a couple extra sets so if there's anyone who can't get to Lowes just send me a PM & I be glad to mail you a set.

I am going off the reservation as usual. I've decided on a neutral palette. I am going to use blk & white per Bonnie and gray as my blue, red as my pink, and maybe a med tan/browns. Just want something different and I do love neutrals.