Tag: mystery quilts

I finally got all of my string blocks de-papered, and began piecing them together. I’ve got three of them attached to the quilt now, with one to go. Once that’s done, I need to stay-stitch around the quilt to stabilize all of those bias edges. I think this is going to look just the way… Continue reading String pieced border

Over the past couple of weekends I’ve really focused on Grassy Creek. I finished making sashing strips. And I finished making the completer pieces. And then I spent a lot of time working on putting them all together. On Sunday I set up my Juki, which up until this point I’ve only used for free… Continue reading So close to a finish

Building on the 7a section of the mystery instructions, this part was bigger nine-patches with 7a at the center. I’m not sure why it seemed to take so long when in reality, it was only two weeks. I’m hoping to get back in and work on the next section this week and finish it up.… Continue reading Grassy Creek 7b

While Amy Beth was over today working on her quilt (her rows are all put together, so next come borders, woohoo!), I worked on Grassy Creek. I got all of what I’m calling Part 7a finished, and now I’m working on Part 7b. I had to call it a day when I turned one of… Continue reading Part 7a, done

Part 7 is the end of this mystery, where all is revealed. There is a lot going on, and I’ve only just begun to piece things together. It’s kind of like a block within a block (with sashings, not yet shown), so I laid out some of the pieces once I had a little bit… Continue reading A Grassy Creek block