Oh, the terrors of mystery quilts!

The new issue of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine arrived today.  It contained the final installment of their mystery quilt, so as soon as possible after dinner I scrambled into the sewing room, pushed back the rows of the diamond log cabin and laid out all the pieces.  I was on pins and needles whether it would work in my fabric choices.

There were a couple of surprises.  The yellows aren't as prominent as I thought they would be.  True, there will be an outside border of the yellow print and there's yellow in the center but it doesn't really shine out.  The blues are a lot brighter than I figured and it makes the quilt darker.  I guess it's OK. 

This is a smaller quilt, 74 inches square, and I'm debating whether to try to add another border and enlarge it or just let it be what it is.  I can put it on the foot of the bed or over the back of the couch.      

This quilt was a lot of work and I'm kind of on the fence about it.  What do you think?  I'll post an actual picture when it's completed but I have to box it up and finish that diamond log cabin first.  The primary reason I wanted to take a picture was that with  all the color substitutions I did I had a hard time correlating it with the instructions and figuring out how it went together.

Quiltmaker magazine mystery quilt

Here's a photo of the Quiltmaker mystery quilt.  I added the peach border and changed out the star centers from the fabric used on the points to that of the border.  It's OK, but I wouldn't have set out to make it.

QNM mystery quilt

Anyone doing the Quilter's Newsletter Magazine mystery? I just decided to pick it up halfway through and am catching up on the blocks. In truth, it didn't look very interesting until the third installment, but when I saw that block I got the mystery quilt fever again. My colors are very different from theirs - hope it works.

I have made all 8 of the block at top left and all of the ones on the bottom row - 10, 8, 4 and 4, respectively. I still have 32 of the one on the top right to finish. We've also cut some strips - for the border and some others, use unspecified. I have to admit that they have me stumped on this pattern. The top left one finishes at 7", the top right one at 4 1/2" and the bottom ones at 3 1/2". How they fit together I have no clue.

Trust and believe - the mystery quilter's mantra.

QOV mystery

Here's a look at my last finish - it's the Quilts of Valor mystery #10. Pardon the terrible picture - the quilt's wider than my curtain rod display system so I thumbtacked it to the door facings.