The joy, elation and satisfaction of finishing one of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilts is just great. I whine so much in the middle, I'm not sure I deserve to be so happy, but I am! Yeh! shouting from the mountain tops, or at least from the top of our stairs.
All I can say to someone considering doing the mystery quilt next fall is, don't miss out. It stretches you into new skills, leads you to the assembling line method of getting lots of cute building blocks done, uses up stash that is left lingering on the shelves, and encourages the blending of colors that I know, for myself, I never would have dreamed of.
Thanks Bonnie for being the wonderful teacher and encourager that you are.
Now for pics of mine. It ended up 96" X 96" quilted. I did a really small stipple allover, with a mountain mist "New" 1/8" poly batting. It was nice and airy and soft and flat. I love how it gave the quilt that neat old fashion flat look without the heavy weight of cotton for such a large quilt. I used a wide back gray flannel from Joann's. And even with the flannel the poly batting helped to make the quilt not weigh a ton and crush me or its future user! My gray, lime green and white tone on tone were one fabrics, and the turquoise and purples were scrappy. I used up big chunks of stash which was my biggest goal. The binding is a couple of pieces of turquoise blue batiks, cut on the bias because I curved my corners so the quilt wouldn't hit the floor on the corners. I used this method of getting a lot of bias binding out of the cut piece.
Quilting Nanny: bias-binding-tutorial . This great gal based her tutorial on another wonder gal, Shelley's excellent instructions!
bias tape tutorial with all the info you need . It worked so well I don't think I will go back to straight of grain bindings.
