2012 new years eve mystery quilt

yippee its new years eve mystery quilt time again!!  i am doing one from Delaware quilts.

my fabric is chosen - a variety of pinks, the finished quilt will hopefully be used to raise funds for breast cancer research...

the strips are cut...

and i am ready to sew when the rest of the clues are posted!

done!

the binding is finally on my Nancy-Rose mystery quilt and i LOVE it!  more info on the quilt is here, also here and the quilting was done by the lovely Dawn

it is currently on the couch, ready for snuggling on cold winter evenings

Newly finished quilt tops (aka why i love annual leave!)

lime/aqua kaleidoscope quilt (from a class at Ballarat Patchwork)

front (in the glare of day!)

(with flash)

back - made from left over fabric from the front

(i don't know why the photo has loaded sideways but blogger wont let me change it)

"Jeanne's Diamonds", Christmas mystery quilt (apocketfullofmysteries)

front

back - made from leftovers from the front of the quilt

 

it's mystery time again

yippee, it's mystery quilt time again!

Dorothy at apocketfullofmysteries is hosting a Christmas mystery -  i have chosen my fabrics but i probably wont have time to start cutting till boxing day

Ann at fabricaholicsanonymous is hosting her annual New Years Eve mystery - again i have my fabric chosen but wont be able to start cutting till after Christmas

Edited... i changed my mind on a couple of colors so i have updated the photos

 

Done!

binding and label are on and this quilt is FINISHED....

quilted by Dawn 

 

some paper piecing fun

Paper Panache are hosting a fun Fairy Quilt Godmother sew along.  just go to this page, enter your email address, answer a few questions and you will be sent a link to your own personalised fairy godmother.

my fairy quilt godmother is called... Pillobella.  i have no idea what she looks like yet!  i have saved the pattern (but not looked at it), hopefully i will find some motivation on Saturday and start sewing her.

if i get her finished before the middle of August i can enter her into the Fairy Quilt Godmother pageant

edited to add - OMG there are some tiny shreds of fabric in this design, so i don't think i will be sewing it any time soon, it is just too scary!! 

NYE mystery - backing

and here is the back for my quilt.

i wanted to finish up some of these fabrics (so i didn't have to put them back in the draw!) i also used up a couple of extra blocks that i made.  the only fabric that is going back in the draw is about 1m of the white dot

i tried going outside to get a nice photo, but our cloudy day is refusing to let me take a nice photo

NYE mystery - quilt top

the top is all together, the binding is ready and i am in the process of making the back.  i like to get the binding and backing ready so that when i bag this quilt up (to go in my "quilting" pile) it is all ready to go - all i need to add is wadding and thread... this helps to stop me procrastinating! 

i add a row to the top and bottom of the quilt to finish off the pattern and to make it rectangular.   i decided against adding a row to each of the sides because i didn't want the quilt to be too big (and it would have been wider than the fabrics that i want to use as the backing (i will post a photo of the backing later today)

let me apologise in advance for my poor photography skills - the quilt is bright and cheerful in person (not as drab as the photo makes it seem) and the yellow fabric has glitter in it.

NYE mystery - blocks finished

all 9 of my blocks are done, aren't they cute?? now i just need to assemble them into a top (it will be baby quilt size)

NYE mystery - clue #7

NYE mystery - clue #6

it's looking cute!!

NYE mystery - clue #4

NYE mystery - clue #3

NYE mystery - clue #2

NYE mystery - clue #1

another day, another mystery!! this time it is from Ann at fabricaholicsanonymous.  i posted my fabric choices here

clue #1 is finished:

apocketfulofmysteries - clue #17

all done... it has been finished for hours, but i took a while to post the photo!  the color combination is lovely and i am happy with how the finished top is looking - even if it isn't my normal color choices

  

and my little quilt helper in the corner of the photo!

i decided to put this quilt on the couch to take a photo, when i stood back i realised that this quilt will be perfect on my couch in the lounge room.  the walls are a very pale khaki color and the couch is a medium green - very similar to the colors in the quilt

apocketfulofmysteries - clue #11 and #12

four block D's and 12 block E's

and that is the last of the blocks!! next step it to assemble this into a top

apocketfulofmysteries - clue #13

four block F's.... my last clue for tonight, because i am off to bed

apocketfulofmysteries - clue #14, #15, #16

and yes, i am doing these last few clues in the wrong order!

one block G, one block I and three block H's

apocketfulofmysteries - clue #8, #9, #10

one block A, three block B's and one block C