Finished Midnight Mystery Quilt -- Dragonflies at Midnight

It's finally finished!

I got my Midnight Mystery quilt back from the long-arm quilter the last time my parents came to visit and just finished the binding.

I had these fabrics in my stash for a few years and this mystery quilt was the perfect project for them! The large-scale dragonfly print shines and the navy background sets everything off well.

I used the same teal fabric from the blocks as the binding. The backing is actually a navy sheet that is the same color navy as the Kona on the front. It makes the quilt oh-so-cuddly!

The quilting is lines of quilting with four petaled flowers or flourishes (note quite a four-leaf clover, though). It is a true beauty!

This ends up at 72 inches square and will be a great addition to my collection of throws. If you love the pattern, Cheryl still has it available on her blog!

Sharing at Finish it up Friday!

Starry Eyed {Midnight Mystery Quilt}

Sometimes there is nothing like a deadline to get your rear in gear.

All that I had to do to finish up my Midnight Mystery Quilt was sew the blocks together and then sew the rows together -- a total of NINE seams. Just sitting waiting for me since January. Waiting.

So yesterday was the deadline to turn in pictures of finished quilts and finished tops to win prizes as part of the official quilt along, so naturally, I came home from work yesterday and zipped my top together!

(And then when my husband got home he was forced into holding it so I could snap a quick picture!)

The top is technically done as is, but I'm considering adding a border or two since I have a lot of the print fabrics left. It either will stay the size that it is -- 72 inches square -- or get bordered up to almost 100 inches square to be a queen sized quilt.

Click on over to Meadow Mist Designs to see the parade of 107 finished quilts and tops!!

Happy Wednesday! Don't forget to check out the first post for the Summer on the Coast QAL!

Sharing at Let's Bee Social!

January OMG {One Monthly Goal}

Since A Lovely Year of Finishes has ended, Heidi at Red Letter Quilts has created a new incarnation of the goal setting party called One Monthly Goal -- OMG for short!

This month my OMG is to put together the top for my Midnight Mystery Quilt!

Here's what my finished block looks like!

I actually have a lot of extra fabric, so I am considering making a few more blocks to make it rectangular instead of square -- I would need three more blocks to do that and I'm pretty sure that I can do that with what I have left. I am going to lay it all out and look at it for a few  days to be sure!

Here's Cheryl's diagram of the finished quilt!

Linking up with OMG!

November Midnight Mystery Progress

Unlike October where I actually got my set done in November, I actually completed my November portion of the Meadow Mist Designs Midnight Mystery quilt in November!

This month we made a few half square triangles, but mostly we sewed our units from the previous months together!

The half square triangles were used to make the units in the upper right hand corner and an olive rectangle added in. We made two of those. Our flying geese units and square in a square units were all sewn together (which I totally expected!!!) and then some of them were sewn to olive squares for the units in the lower right hand corner.

So here are all of my units together:

I think I know how it all is put together BUT I don't want to say it and then end up being wrong! I definitely think some of those units get turned into stars, because what quilter doesn't like stars?

Linking up to the normal Tuesday places!
Linky Tuesday
Fabric Tuesday
Sew Cute Tuesday
Building Blocks Tuesday

October Meadow Mist Mystery Blocks

While I didn't quite get these done in October, I did get them done before the next set of directions come out on Thursday, so I think they aren't late. I was able to have a major marathon sew day yesterday because Park Ranger Husband had to work and made so much progress. Most of it is secret sewing that I can't show just yet, but I will be show those off very soon!

So here are my gigantic courthouse steps blocks for the Midnight Mystery!

And of course, Miss Clara Belle had to inspect my progress:

Here are all of my pieces and parts thus far for the mystery quilt:

We've only used fabric A in the square in a square units thus far, so I'm wondering how else we will use it! My fabric a is the olive green peacock feather print.

Linking up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced! Don't forget that sign ups are still open for Stash Bee 2016!

September Bee blocks and QAL Progress

The nice thing about a three day weekend is being able to get caught up -- and this month I was able to get AHEAD!

Here's my September Stash Bee block for Katie who requested scrappy blocks! I was all intent on doing two (or more!) blocks to use up scrap BUT I had very few blues that fit the bill of what she was requesting! I hate when that happens! I ended up making her one block and am sending her the rest of one of the yellow fat quarters that I used in my block.

I also was able to get all of my September square-in-a-square blocks completed for the Midnight Mystery QAL!

Here they are in progress:

Here they are pre-trimming:

And here are all 34 completed and ready to go!

Happy Tuesday! Linking up to Sew Fresh Quilts, Quilt Story and Freemotion by the River!

August Catch All Post

Since today is the last (LAST!) day of August, I figured I should catch up on my "monthly commitments"

This month for the Stash Bee, Jennifer requested round log cabin blocks in rainbow colors. I made her one aqua block and one true blue block since no one had made any in either of those colors yet! I can't wait to see all of her blocks together!

This month's directions for the Meadow Mist Midnight Mystery Quilt had us make fast flying geese with our color C and color D squares that we've already cut! Just a reminder -- here's my fabric:

And here are all my little gooses!

Now I only have to wait a few more days for the September directions! 

In other news, I have a LOT of baby quilts to make -- I had to make a list!

1. September -- this one I am waiting until the baby is born so I can make a boy or girl quilt.

2 & 3. December -- two friends from church are due two days in a row. One is a boy, one is TBA. I'm going to get started on the one that is for sure a boy soon!

4. March -- they're finding out the gender, but not until October since they JUST told me this weekend that they are expecting. 

At least I have lots of reasons to quilt, right?

Sharing at Linky Tuesday and Fabric Tuesday!

Midnight Mystery QAL Fabric Pull and Cutting

I'm joining in for Meadow Mist Designs' second mystery QAL -- Midnight Mystery!

After seeing all of the beautiful quilts from last year and all of my quilty friends joining in (and peer pressuring -- cough cough Audrey!) I decided that I am going to take the plunge and join in!

I was originally planning to make a scrappy quilt, but I realized most of my scraps are too small with all of the bigger pieces required for cutting this quilt. Instead I went with a set of three fabrics that I have had hanging around in my stash for a looong time.

My fabrics are actually D, C, B, A as per the directions in this picture. The three right fabrics I got as a gift from my mom and sister for my birthday a few years back and the leftmost fabric is Navy Blue Kona for (what I would assume would be) the background fabric.

Here's all of my cut pieces:

I have enough of the teal print to use for my binding as well! I am hoping that the dragonfly print doesn't get cut up too much further to show off the lovely print!

And now everything has been put into a bin to wait until the next set of directions come out in August!

Have you joined in yet? There's plenty of time to catch up before the first set of sewing directions come out August 1st!

Sharing at Linky Tuesday, Fabric Tuesday, and Sew Cute Tuesday!!