It's a Mysterious Finish!

 I guess I don't need to name a quilt I'm donating. 

This is the result of a magical mystery quilt along with Libby who blogs at Life on the Hill. 

48 x 48

This is a Hands2Help Quilty Hug for Happy Chemo

I used up some old floral bits and pieces and chunky scraps  - a lot of them daisies - and had some fun doing it. 

There were several ways to layout the mystery blocks. I chose fields and furrows. 

 I quilted it on my DSM with some very free form daisies. 

The backing and binding are full of roses. 

And those scraps were sure put to good use. 

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I'm Not Usually a Play-Arounder

I don't usually play around much with bits and pieces but since I don't have anything better to do I thought I would try my hand at guessing a mystery. 

Libby's Magical Mystery. 

All the clues have been revealed.  

We are supposed to end up with two each of  two different eight inch blocks from each set of fat quarters. 

So here's my guess at the two blocks. 

Not very imaginative, I know. 

And some other guesses??

You will have to see Libby's post today. 

Magical Mystery Quilt Along

Libby of Life on the Hill has been hosting a Magical Mystery Quilt Along

With 2 FQs we are supposed to end up with four 8 inch blocks - two each of two different blocks. 

I'm doing the mystery x 9, am using scraps and will make a donation quilt.

Clue #4  

 Clue #3 

Clue #2

Clue #1 was fabric requirements. 

And in other news...we had some beautiful large snowflakes on St. Patrick's Day followed by crocus popping up everywhere yesterday. 

Mystery! Intrigue! Suspense!

 Clue 1 - Sixteen Stars in dark blue and white

The Patriot Mystery 

I have challenged myself to use my holiday fabrics this year and patriotic fabrics celebrating the Fourth of July, Veteran's Day and Memorial Day is included in that Holiday Cheer Challenge.    In addition I've been going through boxes, bins and bags of fabric and I am trying to clear some older fabrics and larger scraps out and use them up.   In that process I found a bunch of small muslin pieces and lots of bits and pieces of  dark blue fabrics just right for these stars.   Clue 2 uses red and white strings. How fortunate that I have some white strings left over and unused after I made those two pink and white string quilts last week.  So on to clue 2. 

Clue 2 - Rail Units for Magical Mystery

Clue 1 was fabric requirements and cutting. Remember I said I had a lot of bits and pieces of blue fabrics I wanted to use up? Some of these pieces are pretty old. (I guess that makes them "old lady florals" ? ) A couple of the pieces were left over from backings or borders of quilts gone by so I had to do a little creative cutting. 

I'm making 8 sets but think I'll add one more for a total of 36 blocks. In a 5 x 7 setting that would be a nice size for a donation quilt 40 x 56. 

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