Today is all about Bonnie K. Hunter’s Mystery quilt. Anyone who has been reading my posts knows about the Mystery quilt, but I will explain it for you who are here for the first time.

Every winter Bonnie Hunter runs a Mystery Quilt, free for participants. This winter’s quilt is called Rhododendron Trail.  Once a week, on Friday, she posts one clue. Each clue is the directions to construct one piece of the quilt. She doesn’t show what the finished quilt will look like until the big reveal after all the clues have been posted.

For example, two weeks ago Friday’s clue gave instructions to create flying geese units – a lot of them. The colours used and the dimensions were given, plus directions of several ways to construct them. Of course, you are free to substitute your own colour choices, you just have to remember which colours you pick to correspond to Ms. Hunter’s colours.

I have been so busy with Christmas sewing that I got behind in producing the pieces of the clues. However, I have now been able to get all the flying geese done. Here are mine.

Ms. Hunter’s colours for this unit were pink, yellow, and neutrals.  My colours are light purple, yellow, and white or cream.

I am going to work hard over the next two weeks to get all caught up.

Frolic Mystery Quilt

Ms. Hunter’s quilts are scrappy and intricate. To give you an idea of their complexity, I will show you one past Mystery quilt. In the winter of 2019/2020 the Mystery quilt was called Frolic. It had several thousand individual pieces in it.

Frolic has one main block with a star in the center, but when put together with sashing between the blocks it looks like there are two main blocks.

Even the borders are pieced. The outer border is hundreds of half-square triangles.

The Mystery quilts are challenging, instructive, and most definitely fun!