Monday, January 13, 2020

Clue #4, #6, #7 Progress {Frolic Mystery Quilt}

Slowly but surely I am making tiny bits of progress on my Frolic mystery quilt. I was able to dig deep in my stash to find two fat quarters to finish the cutting for Clue #4!


Yay for not having to go to the store and buy more fabric! I started drawing lines on the back of the small squares to pair each with a navy or dark teal small square to make the half-square triangles for Clue #4 and this will be the next thing I sew. Most of my aqua fabrics are left over from my April Shower Medallion quilt and my Pineapple Log Cabin quilt. 

For Clue #6, I am making part of my flying geese using my navy fabric and part using my dark teal fabrics. I started off making the navy fabric geese with yellow scraps for the background triangles and had shown some of the sewn but untrimmed geese in my last Frolic post. 


I have really, really used up my yellow scraps -- so much so that the yellow batik in the upper right hand corner was a fat quarter hanging around in my stash from long, long ago that I originally didn't think I would end up using for this quilt. Some of these fabrics were also used in my On Ringo Lake quilt, too. 

For the dark teal set of geese, I am using a single yellow print fabric -- something I had bought on clearance years and years ago, which I think looks really lovely with the coral dot print. I used three of my dark teal prints for these flying geese.


Making and trimming these geese went much faster than the batch that I made with the navy and scrappy yellow fabrics!


Now I am officially *done* with Clue #6! I also started the cutting for Clue #7:


I still have a pile of coral squares to cut for this step, that will be paired with the navy or dark teal to make half-square triangles and pinwheels or used to make more flying geese in Clue #8.

While a lot of people are itching for another clue to be released, I am happy that we haven't had any additional bonus clues! If I could get through finally finishing Clue #4 and making a dent in Clue #7 before Friday, I would be really, really proud of myself.

Are you Frolicking? How is your progress? I applaud those of you that decided to do half sized quilts this time around because sometimes I am regretting going full-scale for this one!

Sharing at What I Made Monday and Oh Scrap!

4 comments:

  1. Hi Alison! WOW, what fabulous progress. And, the fabrics you chose!! So much goodness in those piles. I'm not frolicking or Frolicking but I have several friends who are. And I'm enjoying it. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  2. This is a very labour intensive mystery quilt for sure!
    But lots of fun, and I'm excited to see how it will all come together!

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  3. I've fallen behind on Frolic because we are traveling in FL and TX for several weeks. I did bring the cut pieces for clue 6 and 7 with me to work on, but haven't been motivated to do that. I also brought neutrals and green with me anticipating they would be used, but not so far. Every other year the mystery wraps up on New Year's Day. It looks like I should have just skipped this year.
    Pat

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  4. You've done really well on keeping finishing off the clues. I never manage to keep up, but often that works out OK because then I have some wiggle room to make changes, such as how many light/dark blocks I make.

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