Ooh, yes…love the fabrics your mother pulled together for this mystery Visalia. Looking forward to seeing how your quilt stitches up.

I haven’t pulled any fabrics together yet as I am on a tight schedule to finish a tshirt quilt for my son in California. He is a firefighter and I have been storing his tshirts for a couple of years and thought it would make a nice Christmas gift.

Cool fabrics, Vadalia. Your mom has a good eye!

Vadalia, great fabric selection.

I will start fabric selection next week.

Thank you all for your kind words, my mom relays her thanks as well.

Boy, my desire for December to NOT fly by like October & November seemed to sure is at war with my desire to get that Dec 25th Step 2 :D

Wishing you all good luck with your fabrics!

Part 2 is up on the Merry Mayhem website so I printed it this morning. I’m not sure if I am supposed to post the link here or not so I will leave it up to our thread host Vadalia.

I have some unfinished wrapping to do this morning then DH and I will open our stocking gifts from one another. We have a few misfit friends coming for a prime rib dinner at 1 o’clock so I should have a few minutes to spare in my sewing room. 🤗

Merry Christmas everyone.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness, jmoore! I don't think there's any problem with posting the link as it's the same one I posted in the beginning (she just updates that one page) So a reminder link doesn't hurt anyone, is my stance :)

https://www.merrymayhem.com/new-years-day-mystery-quilt

This step sees us making HSTs, not surprising. What is a little surprising to me is that, if I've done my math right, we've arrived at the final block size length-wise but still have another inch to trim off the width. I'm somewhat a newbie quilter so I'm curious as to what all blocks you can make with HST that cuts down on the width but not the length. Maybe a modified form of half rectangle triangle is the only one I can think of- any others?

Vadalia, my guess on pattern is for the 1/2 squares pattern = is an up and down design, like a zig zag type. Tomorrow I will dig out fabric from scraps, then cut, mark and start sewing the 1/2 squares. I thinking on very scrappy. I have lots of fabric that could work for this mystery.

only 6 more days before the mystery begins.

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope it is as magical and religious as you envisioned.

Merry Christmas everyone! Have a safe and happy holiday.

Finished my 64 HSTs yesterday afternoon…I am using a Layer Cake called Songbook (by Moda) along with additional fabric from the collection that I have been lamenting on how to use. I am doing the QOV size.

Pretty fabrics, JMoore.
Yesterday I made mine. I need to trim them down today. It's raining, a good day to sew. I'd rather see snow.