What an excellent way to spend a Saturday. I am always elated when I get to spend my day dedicated to sewing. Even better when you get to do this in the company of others.
Our Mystery quilt day went from 9AM- 5PM. The MQ was put on by one of our local guilds and was held at our local town museum. For those who joined us from the city some were shocked we even had a museum ha ha. Honestly whats a hometown without a little museum =D
I can sum up the day into a few words ... Laughter ... Coffee ... and Surprise.
B all set up and ready to put the pedal to the metal!
Me putting the finishing touches on my set up.
I think I brought my entire sewing room with me!
Mom and C attentively listening to the 1st set of instructions.
We had 11 great ladies creating quilts and 5 eager pressers.
AND WERE OFF ... LISTENING TO THE HUM OF THE MACHINES
Okay so we all figured there would be some sort of 4 patch... but the colour combination?
This wasn't entirely what I expected. I assumed 2 Blue & 2 Orange
Back to the drawing board to come up with a new guess.
FIRST BLOCKS
The Youngest
(mine)
B's
(♥ the colours)
Quilting Momma's
(what an impact)
Sashing, Sashing and more Sashing
All the ladies sewing away, trying to get their sashing done.
I felt like we were in a race. This was one of the last steps before we got to lay out the pattern.
We were so close to reaching the precipice of completion.
The anticipation was really building now.
We made it ... the final blocks were getting chain pieced together !!!
NOW TO LAYOUT THE QUILT
I have to say right now, the 4 of us ladies tried to guess the pattern based off of the cutting instructions and all of us were 100% wrong!!! This was truly a surprise.
That border ... WOW
"Simply Cool" by Pleasant Valley Creations
...
Mystery Quilt Pattern
We got to see the finished quilt up close.
This was Michelle's quilt, she was one of the organizers of the MQ!
MYSTERY QUILT REVEAL
The Youngest
Quilting Momma's
C's
I had a blast creating this Mystery Quilt. I am overjoyed that I was able to participate and cannot thank the Guild enough for putting on this event.
What a huge amount of work it is for them; planning, organizing, PRESSING!
The amount of pressing is unfathomable, there is no way we could have gotten anywhere close to finishing without those pressers. THANK YOU...THANK YOU...THANK YOU
My husband even told me when I got home that this was one of his favourite quilts I have made.
Kudos ladies, we have another winner of quilt on our hands.
Until Next Time
- They Youngest-
