Indigo Way- The Mystery Quilt is Not A Mystery Anymore

 So, here's a link here to the previous posts about this mystery quilt. 

It was a ton of pieces, like they always are. 

And some unique piecing too!

And a lot of these!!!

And here is the quilting that I had done by my longarmer, Deb at Happiness by Design. Here's her Link

Here's the backside, I had to piece it with a solid strip down one side. I love the print fabric, but that's all there was of it. 

And TA-DA here's the front.

It's growing on me. 

I love the colors, and I usually like the busy-ness of A Bonnie K. Hunter quilt, but this one is a little more complicated to me.

And it is a pretty good size, about 90"X90". Glad this one is done!

Finishes and It's Mystery Time!

Here it is all finished. It's been a little cloudy the last few days, but these pictures are closer to actual color I think.

Nice even scrappy binding, I love that nice even stitching! And loopy loop quilting.

And good looking corners too! Sometimes things just work out well.

I also got a few more masks made up. A friend of my Mom's who lives in the heart of Cyclone Country, is a huge Hawkeye fan, so I made a few more Hawk masks for her to send to her friend. 

And a special mask for Mom too.  I got this Bernina Fabric in FLA when we were on vacation last February.

I've started using This Pattern  for this batch of masks. I like the extra nose piece. To me they are comfortable and fit better so my glasses don't fog up as badly. I made these masks with the nose wire in them this time too. Really it is a better fit with the wire.

And I saw this Holiday Hawkeye fabric and knew it would be  loved, so I made a few of them to mail off too! 

And it's getting to be that time, yes, Mystery Quilt Time. If you follow Bonnie K. Hunter-she's a very popular quilter-you'll know that she creates a special mystery quilt every year and you just have to go to her blog, HERE  to quilt along. She published the inspiration and the colors on Halloween and the 1st clue (or step) is coming up on the day after thanksgiving (Black Friday). This year it's called Grassy Creek. 

Last year was Frolic...here's my Frolic Quilt from last year......

I switched up a few colors from her choices. 

I love the look of this quilt and but was such a different assembly method, I hope this year's will be a little bit easier!

And here's her inspiration and color choices for this year....Photo from https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2020/10/grassy-creek-quiltville-mystery.html

And so the mystery begins! Photo from https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2020/10/grassy-creek-quiltville-mystery.html

Here are my fabric choices...I'm attempting something different, because I really don't have any red or orange in my stash and not much gold either! I started out with this-all from my stash...but it kind of seemed not good. Ringo, likes it though! I'd need to go scrappy on the grays, because I don't have enough. The Mystery quilt is always scrappy-that's kind of what they're famous for, but I'm going with yardage this year!

So then I took out the aqua solid color and put in a more subtle teal color and then I purchased one gray instead of multiple scrappy gray.... . I like it a lot better. I tried to not buy any fabric for this quilt, really I did! SO Mine will look quite a lot different! I'll keep you posted! 

Frolic is DONE!

 So back in November I started the Frolic Mystery Quilt Along from over on Bonnie K Hunter's Quiltville Blog..

The mystery quilt comes along every year in November and Bonnie K Hunter is famous for her use of scraps, scrapiness, and these mystery quilts.

 SO, I'd been collecting the instructions as they came out every week or so, but I kept having things come up while I was trying to get it all cut and sorted and up to speed!

We went on vacation....

 and I had to stop and make a couple of other more pressing quilts.....

 And the holidays came and went....but NOW IT'S TIME!

Look at this...the blocks are set on point, so there were a bunch of setting triangles to make.

 Look at the mess of seams!! Nothing seems to want to play together nicely at all.

 And the borders! OH my goodness-sooo many pieces!!!!!

 I just went my own way with the border...I had so many extra pieces!! The Designer said there would be extras, because she thought it was the best way to make the directions work for a mystery quilt. Booooo!

Anyways, I got the border done and the top is complete!!!! This thing is huge!

 And so it sat around for awhile, waiting for a day warm enough to spray baste it outdoors with my garage door method. Finally Saturday was the day!!!!

 Look at the size of this beast!

 I am loving it a lot. I struggled with a little breeze, I struggled with the spray can that wouldn't spray and the can whose nozzle fell of...GRRRRR. I was so frustrated!

 But look, one whole day meandering around with lovely purple variegated thread and she's done!!

 It finished at about 92" square.

 It went through my Babylock  fine, not too much struggle.

 I couldn't find a place high enough to hang it up, so the ground was pretty dry here!

 Love this backing fabric I got at Hobby Lobby for only $3 a yard! I needed 6 yards so that was a total steal!

 I'm glad this one is done!

Here's the original made by Bonnie K Hunter. You can see all the ones folks made by visiting her blog, facebook anmd Intsagram pages.

I'm just glad to get this one in the wash and decide where to put it!