Four quilt shops (the Four Friends) ran a mystery quilt in January. if you purchased a 2 1/2 in fabric strip roll from one of the shops, you could play along. I purchased my strip roll from Sew Creative Ashland, in Ashland, Oregon. They chose the yellow background and the red fabric in the little triangles for me. I added the mushroom fabric. If you look closely, you’ll find one Garden Gnome holding a mushroom, a welcome, though unexpected visitor!

We were given directions for making the chaining block and the square blocks with the strips and fold over red triangle. But it was up to us to choose our own design from these blocks.

It’s been totally amazing to see how many different configurations folks have come up with. Below are some of the incomplete designs I played with on my design wall. I ended up deciding between the star above and the large diamond.

Right now the tops are only being shared on a closed Facebook group. I hope maybe some of the shops will show them on their websites so more people can see them.

My quilt top is about 64 inches square. I decided to order a wide back fabric as the backing, and the red fabric will be my binding. It’ll be while before I get to quilting it as I had to order both the backing fabric and batting.

This has been an interesting project. It’s not one of my all time favorite quilts but still, I’m glad I did it.

I was recently given a half size strip roll and so I’m thinking about making another quilt just using the square blocks with the strips to make a quick charity quilt. I’ll let you know if I do!