Mystery Clue of the Month through PatchworkTimes.com
Beginning January 2014 – December 2014
Finished at 78″ x 97″.
Finished quilted and bound – 2/20/2016
Tell It To The Stars
Finished and Bound
2/20/2016
See Judy’s Description on her site for complete details.
Fabric is 100% cotton hand dyed from Vicki Welsh.
Forest Canopy Fabric
from Vicki Welsh
Arrived 1/9/14
I started this mystery quilt because I loved the mystery quilt-a-longs with Bonnie Hunter. But Bonnie’s is too fast and too many little pieces and in the worst time of year for me that I just end up with UFO after UFO each year. I felt that Judy’s monthly Mystery Quilt was doable each month and smaller. Plus I was able to purchase fabric. When this project was getting started I didn’t have time to choose fabric.
JANUARY, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
Finished
1/11/2014
FEBRUARY, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
2 finished blocks
2/2/14
Tell It To The Stars
Blocks 1 and 2 together
February 2, 2014
MARCH, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
3/17/14
APRIL, 2014
April Block
4/2/2014
Tell It To The Stars
Design Wall
4/2/14
May, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
May Block
5/4/2014
June, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
June Block
7/19/2014
July, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
July Block
7/19/2014
August, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
August
08/01/2014
September, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
September Clue
Design Wall
9/8/14
October, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
October 5, 2014
November, 2014
Tell It To The Stars
1 block from the November Clue
11/2/14
Tell It To The Stars
32 blocks from the November Clue
11/9/14
February, 2015
Tell It To The Stars with Borders #1 and #2
…working on Border #2
2/8/15
Tell It To The Stars
Finished through
Border #4
2/18/15
Tell It To The Stars
Top Finished
2/22/2015
2/25/2015 – Next I need to get a backing and quilt it. I have a new mid arm but I’m hesitant to use this quilt to learn how to use the mid arm so I’m going to practice quilting Month by Month on the mid arm first. Once I’m finished with that I’ll quilt Tell It To The Stars.
It took some time but I finally got the backing done for this.
Tell It To The Stars
Back – so far
6/13/2015
6/14/2015 – This picture doesn’t show the darker gray bordering the right and left of the back but I’ll have to post that at a different time. Something I did differently on this back is that I put the label on before I quilted it. I also pieced the back with some of the remaining pieces left over from the kit of hand dyed fabrics that I purchased. I wanted to highlight the hand dyed fabric. The grays are not hand dyed and but I felt it showed off the fabric best. I originally purchased the darker gray but I didn’t like how it looked right next to the hand dyed fabric. So I bought the lighter gray thinking I would use the darker gray for something else. After I pieced the lighter gray onto the back it was still not big enough so I used the darker gray anyway. Even then, I still didn’t have enough for all four sides so I went back to Quilt Emporium and bought an additional 2 yards for the remaining 2 sides. I washed and got them pieced on today.
Tell It To The Stars
Being quilted
11/15/2015
Tell It To The Stars
Off the Frame
mostly quilted
still need to quilt the borders
1/31/2016
Finished and bound!
Tell It To The Stars
Finished and Bound
2/20/2016
Posts I mention this in:
I want to do this… I really do
Tell It To The Stars, January Clue
Tell It To The Stars, February Clue
tell-it-to-the-stars-update (June/July)
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