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I've mentioned the Mystery Quilt that I've developed for my quilt club, Country School Quilters. We make these quilts for our local veteran's hospital and they are all delivered on Christmas Eve to veteran's that are hospitalized over the holidays. We, and a few other groups, make as many as we can  but never have enough for everyone. The recipients are veterans from all wars. Last year there was even one there from WWII! The veterans are so appreciative of these quilts and we received some really lovely notes from them.

I know that a lot ...

It's time for the new instructions for the Back to Square One quilt. Go over to Patchwork Times and get the new instructions. If you enjoyed April you will really enjoy May! Be sure to share a link to your progress for April so that you will be entered in the drawing for some free hand dyed fabric!

If you are using my Emerald Isle kit you are making 20 Economy Blocks like these.

Michele showed her Easy Street at guild yesterday.  Here it is.

Here is mine – sorry about the bad photo of Michele’s.

Melinda

 Well, here they are...the units and blocks from Lazy Sunday, Part 2!  I'm using a mix of batiks and mottled/blender fabrics for the colored piecing.  For the lights, I just pulled anything with a white background, no beige/off-whites in this one, therefore it's looking very BRIGHT!  The grunge photos are muting it down (if you can believe that)!

I've been working for a few weeks on a design for my next veteran's quilt/QOV project. After about 20 iterations I've finally settled on the design and then I decided to make it a mystery quilt.

My quilt club makes the veteran's quilts and we have a new blog.  I decided to post the mystery clues on the Country School blog to get our members using the new blog. But anyone is welcome to participate. You can get information on the mystery project here. Our veteran's quilts are generally 48" x 60" and that ...

The Red Quilt

Finally, finally, I finished the red quilt. It was the mystery quilt Connecting Threads had on their site in March. I told you about it on March 18^th and again on March 25^th. I’ve mentioned it since then, promising photos when I finished. Here are the promised photos.

I used four spools of red thread for the quilting and started on a fifth spool. I need to remember to have way more thread than I think I’ll need when I start. The spools were all from my collection of thread, all slightly different ...

i love getting treats in the mail. it’s christmas. most of the time, though, it’s not in december. do you want to see what arrived today? a fat quarter bundle from connecting threads from their collection Soaked. it’s so pretty! i’d open and show you but then i’d have to put together again. it just wouldn’t be the same. not to mention it’s fun opening [...]

and it’s clue day. plus my work load is one small quilt. then i’ll get so sew something of my own today. and i’ve got some news. first things first… clue has been posted. if you still want to join us there’s plenty of time and it’s never too late. click on ‘shop’ above or go to my etsy shop (if you are using a [...]

What does a picture of an empty box have to do with a finish? Well, Saturday morning this box was full of the finished blocks from the mystery. By Saturday night, this is what the box looked like – empty. All the blocks were out of the box and sewn into rows. Sunday the rows were sewn together.

And now? Now, the centre of my quilt top from the Case of the Secret Garden mystery quilt is done. I’ve decided to call it The Walled Garden. Right now it’s 48″ square but it’s going to have a border ...

you know it’s coming…right? april 12th. there’s a mad scramble throughout the quilt world. i can hear the gasps and quilters wonder if they have enough fabric. my friend debbie is using the glamping fabric by mary jane butters for moda. it’s so cute!! so, the campers and the red gingham is her dark. the yellow is her medium. and the white with red circles [...]

That’s what I was doing last night. Stitching all the little quarter circles on to the arcs. That part is now done for all the blocks. Then it was on to adding the large corners to each arc. This stack of blocks includes those done previously as well as a quarter of the ones from the clue a week ago.

And this is the stack that I am determined to finish before the weekend is over. All they need is to have the large corner added which is relatively quick to stitch. It’s curved piecing, so I’m ...

I wish it was my quilt top finished that’s the reveal, but it’s not. That said, I am really, really excited about this quilt now! When the last clue in the Case of the Secret Garden mystery quilt was released yesterday and I saw the final layout, I immediately fell in love with it.

With Linda Franz’ permission, I copied this illustration from her blog, All About Inklingo, to show how pretty this quilt top will be when finished! I admit to having some doubts at points through the mystery, but now I’m 100 per cent sure ...

I’m disappointed in myself this morning. All last week I sewed at home with the goal of having my mystery quilt finished in time to post photos on the blog today. I didn’t make it.

On Monday I assembled the blocks.

Monday evening

Tuesday, I put the top together.

Tuesday evening

Wednesday is when things started slowing down. I wanted my quilt to be larger. I had more fabric so I decided to add borders. I wanted to increase the size by about 30 inches so it could a bed-size quilt. But just plain borders would not be ...