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Category Archives: 2011 Mystery Quilt

Goals for the Week of May 5, 2025

May 5, 2025 7:23 am ⋅

Last week’s goals

  • Bind these 3 quilts: Blooming 9-Patch, Illusions, and the 2011 Mystery Quilt. – DONE

  • Assemble, quilt and bind 2 more President’s Challenge quilts – DONE

    • Make a charm tote bag.  – DONE

 

 

So what’s on my list for this week?

  • Make the rest of the Lemoyne Stars for the Compass Lone Star quilt.

  • Find something to use for my Leader/Ender Project — I’m thinking it will be my Rainbow Charm Swap.

  • Clear the tables AGAIN and go through at least 1 of the DOOM bags.

I took my main machine to the Sit-n-Sew and when I got back I thought I would clean it since I’ve been sewing so much.  This is the accumulation after just 2 weeks.

That led to resuming the deep clean of the quilt studio that I started several months ago. It always looks worse before it gets better.

But I wiped down the window sills, baseboards and swept behind and under the middle table and sewing table and circled back and swept behind the other table as well.

But I was eager to get the bindings on the two challenge quilts, so nearly everything on the sewing table got swept off into those 2 bags sitting on the floor next to the broom — aka DOOM bags — Didn’t Organize Only Moved.

 

Posted in: 2011 Mystery Quilt, Blooming 9-patch, Charm Tote, Compass Star, Dragonfly Garden, goals, Illusions, Rainbow Challenge

What I’m Working on Wednesday – 4/30/25

April 30, 2025 11:52 pm ⋅

I set off this week with the goal to get 5 quilts bound. A lofty goal, but I machine bind, so completely doable.  It’s only Wednesday and all 5 of the quilts are bound!  I typically do a flange binding, but chose to bind the President’s Challenge (top left) quilt with the same fabric as the backing and the 2011 Mystery Quilt (bottom right) I had cut my binding when I finished the top 14 years ago and decided to not put the flange on.  I still stitched the binding to the back and brought it to the front, but it was hard to see.

I designed this quilt as a retreat mystery quilt back in 2011. My smaller one I finished in time to hang in the 2019 Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival.  It was done in just 3 fabrics and can be seen HERE.

  • Started: 3/15/2011
  • Finished: 4/30/2025
  • Size: 59″x 74″
  • Calista Stars E2E, increased to 15″ tall
  • Military Gold 40 wt Glide

 

Posted in: 2011 Mystery Quilt, binding, designwall

What I’m Working on Wednesday – 4/23/2025

April 23, 2025 9:31 am ⋅

Last night I made a little progress on the Blooming 9-Patch.  When I originally sewed the strips for the most recent 9-patches my seam allowance was off and I had to fix it.  I was also distracted by the long arm. I thought I’d put a quilt on the frame and while it was stitching I’d be piecing.

I opted for gold thread – specifically Military Gold from Glide on this scrappy red, white and blue quilt.  It’s about 60″ wide and the E2E design I picked stitched quickly, so I didn’t have much time between passes.

The gold thread makes the quilting stand out.  This E2E design is Calista Stars from My Creative Stitches.  It is currently on sale for $5.

The quilt top was finished in April 2011. It was a mystery quilt I wrote for a retreat I attended. It’s been sitting in the box of quilt tops — with the backing and binding strips cut – since then.   I wonder how long it will take me to bind it?  I’ve got 2 more quilts that need binding.

I got the gold paint on the back of my backsplash.

I need to clean up the edges, but it is ready to be installed when the kitchen gets that far.

Posted in: 2011 Mystery Quilt, Blooming 9-patch, House

Twin Mystery Top Finished

April 15, 2011 8:51 pm ⋅

I really should have re-hung the quilt and waited for better light, but I’ve got a mini Ohio Stars quilt to make this weekend.

Posted in: 2011 Mystery Quilt, mystery quilts

Mystery Quilt Revealed

April 12, 2011 8:55 am ⋅

This past weekend I attended the 10th Anniversary Kaye-Woods-Quilting-Friends (Yahoo! Group)  retreat at Camp Beth Eden in Conway, Missouri.  This was my 7th year.  I had a great time, but I’m exhausted!  One of the activities which you can participate in is a mystery quilt.

A mystery quilt is where you are told how much fabric you need, then are given the cutting and sewing instructions, but not told how what you are making.  Hopefully the instructions are written clear enough that there are no frustrations and in the end you have a finished quilt top which looks like the original when it is revealed.

I wrote this years mystery quilt.  My friend Mary over at Quiltn’ Gramdma’s Blog tested the pattern for me.  After the pattern was tweaked, Terri who wasn’t able to make it to the retreat offered to post the patterns to the list for anyone who wanted to participate, but couldn’t make the trip either.  She also tested the pattern for me.  This is her quilt.

This year we had six ladies complete their quilt tops.

More about the retreat and the shopping I did later.  I’ve got to straighten up my sewing room so I can unpack.

Posted in: 2011 Mystery Quilt, mystery quilts

Must Have Lost My Mind

March 16, 2011 11:44 pm ⋅

I started off the year with a bang, but here we are a bit over 10 weeks into the new year and I have 3 quilts completely cut out — 2 with the borders!  This is cannot be good for the UFO count.  To further illustrate that I’ve lost my mind, I’m planning on taking all 3 of them with me this weekend to a sew-in.

The bag on the left is Bonnie Hunter’s Fun With Bricks.  This started innocently enough as a leader/ender project in January.  The bag on the right is the Dragonfly quilt.  The middle is a red, white & blue scrappy twin size version of the Mystery Quilt I wrote for the April retreat.

Add to this that my husband has just convinced me that I need to quilt and bind six quilts before the end of June and now I know I have lost my mind. This does not include anything which is on my UFO list or any other project I want to finish sooner than later.  At least four of the quilts are completed tops.

Here they are:

Pattern - BQ2

Quilt #1 – 54 x 70.  I have enough fabric to make a second identical quilt and bind them both in the purple.  I may use the fabric to make the backing.  No idea on the thread color or quilting motif.

Pattern Old Tobacco Road

Quilt # 2 – 70 x 100  When I started the quilt in Purple, Green & Yellow, I was thinking “Mardi Gras” and purchased either 1/2 yard or yard of Mardi Gras frogs.  I may look for some more Mardi Gras fabric for the back.  The purple binding is made and tucked in with the quilt and frogs.

 

Pattern Victoria's Rose

Quilt # 3 – 68 x 86.  I have a  piece of the border fabric left in the stash.  The floral, pink and green fabrics, along with a stripe and a small floral print were part of a bundle.  I found more of the floral on-line, but don’t think I there is enough for the backing.  My spreadsheet says I have ‘binding fabric’.

Oh, my.  I just thought of something.  I really want pillow cases to go with each of these quilts.  Have I mentioned I’ve lost my mind?

 

Pattern - The Chain Event

Quilt #4 – 74 x 88.   I thought I had backing fabric for this quilt top, but when I inventoried my quilts tops and UFOs last year, I discovered I only had binding fabric.

 

Pattern - Disappearing 9-patch Variation

Quilt # 5 – 60 x 76. It’s a variation because I’m not making 9-patches and I’ve changed the size of the pieces.  It just worked better for the size quilt I wanted to make.  Fortunately I have the backing fabric – a great dragonfly print I found on-line and the binding has been cut, just not made.  So, if I finish piecing the top this weekend, this will be the first quilt I get done.

 

Pattern - Crossword Puzzle

Quilt # 6 – size unknown.  The size is unknown because this is still a work in progress.  I have about 1/2 of the letters made.  This one is going to the April quilt retreat.

I think my husband wanted to suggest a 7th quilt, but quickly left the room before I could throw something at him. Good thing I put the following qualifier in my UFO Challenge rules:

There will be occasions when a quilt will need to get moved to the top of the line regardless of the # pulled for the month. In those instances, I’ll either swap the #s if they are on this list, or if the quilt doesn’t have an assigned #, but is on either tab as of January 1, 2011, I’ll substitute it for the current # drawn. After all the goal is to get quilts off the UFO list.

Posted in: 2011 Mystery Quilt, BQ2, crossword, Dragonflies, Fun with Bricks, OTR, The Chain Event, UFO Challenge 2011, Victoria's Rose

Mystery Quilt Top Done

January 20, 2011 11:27 pm ⋅

Just a peek.  Over the last couple of nights I’ve been working on a baby quilt that I’m writing a pattern for.  It will be the retreat mystery quilt in April, so I can’t show it until then.  Now off to type up the instructions.

Posted in: 2011 Mystery Quilt