I am a mystery quilt junkie! Where many do not like doing a mystery, I receive great satisfaction from them. To date I have done 20 mystery quilts. I love reading a good book but I can’t wait for the ending. I always read the last chapter right after the first. I need to know how it ends. With mystery quilts I don’t seem to have this problem. I love watching the quilt top unfold into a finished pattern. I like seeing how my color choices come together. Very seldom do I buy fabric specifically for a mystery quilt. I usually pull from my stash. This makes me use up some of the large quantities of fabric I have already purchased. Only once have I ever ripped out and replaced the fabric. I have found that these quilts make great charity quilts. When you need a gift they are easier to part with. So, the next few days I am going to share a few of my mystery quilts. The good, the bad and the downright ugly! I think I will start out with what I consider the good so that you will tune back in tomorrow.
This blue and white 4 block is one of my all-time favorite quilts. It is one of the few mysteries I actually went out and purchased fabric for. It was in a quilt magazine that at the time was published quarterly. This made it slow going. I have a passion for both 2 color and 4 block quilts. I was absolutely thrilled with the results.
I really liked the Bow-tie mystery results also. We did this at a guild retreat. At the time I was not overjoyed with my choice of green background, but this quilt has grown on me. I use it in our living room as a throw (it is actually a queen size). I purchased the border fabric after the center was pieced together. It helped pull it all together.
Tune in tomorrow and I will show you one of those “what was I thinking?” quilts.
9 comments:
I think the green background on your bow tie quilt looks quite charming. I look forward to seeing more mysteries unfold.
Kairle
fun- I have done a few mystery quilts...but lost interest over recent years-I have a friend that is a mystery quilt junkie too!
the blue and white one would be my favorite too..it came out gorgeous!
Love your two mystery quilts.
I would love to make that blue and white quilt, as I love 4 block quilts too! also love graphic quilts and this one sure is graphic. do you remember what magazine it was in, I just may have it.
Really great mystery quilts Laura, love your white trash puppy too!! Such a cutie!
I've not had very good luck with mysteries. The ones I've made would have been better left unsolved, I think..LOL. But the two you have shown today are great!!
Yeah, the blue and white quilt is a stunner - very graphic. Is it on display? I love some of the old two color quilts too: blue and white or red and white.
Beautiful quilts..especially the blue one. I'd be pleased with that too! Can't wait to see more...
Thanks for the mystery quilt show!
I love your bow tie mystery!
Yup I'm always scared of mysteries, but I do do them! But I LOVE the blue and white one! WOW! That one is ME!
Wow, I love both of them. I've never done a mystery before. I tend to like to have all my instructions at one time. Even the Quilt for an Hour patterns that Judy does - I do after she's done posting them.
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