Karen Montgomery revealed the 2024 Brown Bag Mystery Quilt pattern a few weeks ago. She called the quilt “Piece of Cake” and at the reveal explained why: The main block in the quilt is called “Cake Stand.”

The steps in Karen’s mystery quilts are always deceptively easy. The challenge comes with the assembly. This one isn’t too hard if you carefully follow her excellent “exploded” diagram. But it takes lots of checking and rechecking to avoid flipping blocks.

I’m slowly putting the quilt together, but with two adult dogs and a puppy with chronic diarrhea, I’m only managing a couple rows a day. The other day this is how I was informed that it was supper time and that sewing time for the day was over!! Quitting is all you can do when your design “wall” is blocked!