The mystery quilt used traditional blocks but teaches you how to use the newest technique for assembling your pieces and cutting them with minimum waste of fabric. All throughout the 12 blocks, you learned new designs, some are repeated in other blocks, but for the most part, you have lots of different ones to try out. The blog makes it fun and interesting and to see other quilters struggled where you struggled or others perfecting their quilting with a touch of creativity.
On the right side: Fabric from my stash.
It was nice to see my first blocks in both selections. After the fact I had purchased all the fabrics required by the pattern, I realized that I could have simply dig through my stash and save money for something else.*laugh*
The selecting thread can be simple or difficult if we have too many choices. I used Isacord thread. Before quilting my first blocks, I tested the thread of my choices on a smaller piece of the same fabric.
Chain sewing is one of my favourite way to get the most of my sewing time. The pattern had a lot of flying geese and figured out how NOT to sew over my points. Easy enough you think, but I got a problem with that one until I figured what I was doing wrong. When you sew your 1/4 " seams, make sure the point is NOT in it. Do not sew over the point or before it. Otherwise, your point is gone in the seam allowance. Another trick, I sew the allowance on the point side, so I know exactly where it is.
There is many cheap ways you can make a lightbox. If you don't have room to store such a box, maybe something like this would be good enough.
My husband found this light kit at Costco. The glass is from an old coffee table. Very thick and large enough for a 15" x15" block.
It looking good.
Original
From my stash
Another successful year of fun!
Quilter4Him
