Romans 8:24 Trust and wait for what is still unseen.
Well, have you been wondering what The Mystery Quilt is looking like? Are you excited to see it? Do you have a vision in your mind of what you think it looks like? Have you been on Pins & Needles waiting for the mystery to be revealed?
After pressing, cutting strips and sewing the strip sets together, I was ready to put the sub-strips together.
In the last blog post, I left readers hanging off the sewing cliff, or off the cutting board, about here, with my piles of strip sets ready to cut diagonally. For the cuts, one pile had to have the magenta strip on the left, and the other the magenta strip on the right. I would basically be cutting a ‘goose.’
Oops!! Somehow two (of the twenty) strip sets from this pile were upside down. I didn’t even notice it when I was cutting. The magenta should have been on the left here. I decided, in typical Jeanne quintessential quilting fashion, I would just sew the corners back on with an 1/8” seam and flip it for the cut. There would be an oddball seam, but it’s a quilt, there’s going to be small pieces of fabric stitched together. And really, I don’t think many people will even notice.
The ‘white goose’ added. I used my own terminology so not to mix up the pattern.
The yellow strip is the ‘A’ Block. Ready to press and add a ‘gray goose’ on the opposite side.
The first ‘A’ square. Nine more to go. I’m beginning to see a pattern!!
The ‘B’ square is ‘the same but different,’ as the ‘A’ square. I identify it by its orange strip.
The ‘B’ square. Also nine more. Or ten each of ‘A’ and ‘B’ squares.
The directions had you assemble one block; a gray goose, a white goose and five strips in the middle; at a time. I streamlined the process a little by sewing all the ‘center fives’ first, then attaching a goose to each side. It also helped with the bulk, the finished square was pretty big compared to most quilt squares. It’s about 18.5” to allow for trimming and squaring, the final size is 17.5” square.
Romans 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Because the squares were so big, they didn’t fit on my cutting board for an accurate cut. I decided to chance it and square up for the 17.5” square by folding the square in half and centering it. Then cut on my 1/4” line on each end of my 18”cutting board.
On the top corners I would check to make sure the strips were lined up.
Instead of off like this.
After trimming the first two sides, I re-folded, centered and trimmed the other two sides. I wouldn’t recommend squaring up this way if you haven’t sewn much because it’s easy for the block to go askew. Then you would keep trimming and lose the needed measurements, making all your squares different sizes.
An ‘A’ and a ‘B’ square lined up ready to sew. I’m loving it!!
The Mystery Quilt went together extremely fast. I’m sure it took me longer to shop for all the right fabrics than it did to cut strips and sew. It’s amazing how just two squares turned a different way in the row changed the look and created the pattern.
The Mystery Quilt top is finished!! One of the quilting bloggers I follow always posts pictures of her quilts outside. I thought it might be nice to display The Mystery Quilt on my rake!! I love it!!
I just need to decide on a color for the back. This pattern doesn’t have a border, but it called for a lot more fabric than needed so I could put one on. I’ll think about it.
It’s called “Woven Together.” Does it come close to what you envisioned for the Mystery Quilt?
I found the pattern in one of my old magazines, American Patchwork & Quilting, June 2018, #152, Woven Together.
Luke 12:55 And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘It will be a hot day,’ and it turns out that way.
Caught a little wind.
A little bigger breeze and a little sunset sneaking in.
Psalm 66:16 Come and hear, all you who fear God; let me tell you what He has done for me.
My sunflowers are looking great!!
Coronavirus update.
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