2009 New Year's Day Mystery Quilt
Monday December 29, 2008
It's time for a preview of the 2009 New Year's Day Mystery Quilt. Not too much of a look, but fabric requirements and suggestions -- enough to help you begin to sort through your stash. The 2009 quilt is quite a bit smaller than last year's mystery, but not so small that you'll have to deal with itsy pieces of fabric. Watch for a few cutting updates on Tuesday, and maybe a few sewing instructions on Wednesday. Full instructions will get underway at about 9 a.m. eastern time on Thursday.
Comments
Wow! This looks like so much fun. Can hardly wait to raid my stash, better run. THANKS!!!
This should be fun. I have my fabrics all picked out and can’t wait for the next clue!!!
OK, I am all ready I have my pieces cut out. The excitment is killing me. Happy New Year.
P.S. I sure enjoy your e-mails. It is very insperational. I won a prize at the country fair with one of your baby quilt patterns. I don’t know how to send pictures or I would. But, thank you very much.
Barbara Morris
Can’t wait to start. I thought we would start getting the instruction at 10am eastern time. It is 10:21am mountain time and no instructions post yet. Are they going to be posted and emailed to us? Thanks and Happy New Year
Hi, I’ve been adding instructions all morning. They are all in the original document, linked at the top of this page. It’s a step by step document, with new steps revealed on each page.
I also have been searching since 8am for the instructions. It’s now almost 1:00.I wish I had known where to look for them. Merry
I’m sorry for the misunderstanding, they are always in the document that I promote in the newsletters leading up to mystery events.
No. My fault. I am new here and didn’t know where to look. Next year, I will. Thanks Merry
Janet. Thanks so much for this great wall hanging. I finally got it finished early Friday morning. Didnt’ actually get started until about 3:30 pm NYDay. Was waiting on my friend to join me. We had a great time. As soon as I figure out how to send the photo I will. What a great way to start the New Year.
Thanks for a great day of sewing. If I make this again, I will make one adjustment. Instead of cutting/sewing the side strips to the four flying geese, I will cut 20 1/2 inch strips and sew them to 16 flying geese for each border. I had a dickens of a time getting those corners to match. And one word of advice/reminder when printing the flying geese foundation template, be sure to check the box on the printer screen that says “none” for adjusting the size to fit printer margins.
Marjorie
I thought about including instructions for long sashing pieces against those units, instead of individual strips. But decided that, after the first day, most people will treat it as a regular pattern, not a mystery, and I suspect that many will use a scrappy assortment of strips instead of one color.
I hope everyone who made the quilt will send me a photo — I have a few.
I finished the wall hanging about 6:30 pm central time NY day. It was a lot of fun. I haven’t got it quilted yet, but will try to get that done this weekend. I will send a pic of the wall hanging to you. Thanks for doing this. I did the 2008 mystery quilt also, and added a few extra borders but have not got it quilted yet.