I Love a Mystery!!

I started doing mystery quilts in 2012 when I came across Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville.com website. She does one every year between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, giving us a new clue each Friday starting the day after Thanksgiving.  In 2013, she also had one published in the Quiltmaker magazine.  Here is a collage of these quilts.

In December 2014 I came across Love Bug Studios, Designer Ebony Love.  She had planned a mystery quilt called English Manor to be done in conjunction with the PBS series "Downton Abbey" beginning in January 2015.  Clues were received weekly on Sunday morning before that week's episode aired on Sunday evening.

In January 2015, I came across Scrapitude Quilts.  Charlotte Hawkes is the designer on this blog.  She gave us clues once a month on the second Tuesday evening in conjuction with doing one with her local guild.  She did her third one this year. I missed the first one.  Scraps in a Box was in 5 parts and Scrappy Stars Around the Corner was in 4 parts.   Here are my two Scrapitude mystery quilts.

Youth Quilts

Still having great fun making quilts for the foster teens at King's Home.  Keeps my creative juices flowing and my stash under control! Such a great "excuse" to keep doing what I love doing!!!  (I haven't figured out yet how to make these pictures line up the way I want them to....sorry they are all over the place.)

 Several are made from leftover units from other quilts.  Some are jelly roll quilts made from strips cut from my stash as I was sorting and re-organizing fabrics to move to my new sewing/quilting room.  Most are approximately 56 x 72  lap quilts.

I have quilted 8 of these since moving into my new room, which I did during the last week of December.   Agnes Poole, the  coordinator to whom I send them, has graciously agreed to add the binding and hem and get them completed.