Mystery Quilt

My local guild is working hard through this pandemic to reach out to its members via Zoom meetings, sharing interesting sites and for the summer, offering a mystery quilt.

I wasn't going to participate in this at first, but I find myself creatively stymied. I need to visit a fabric store for a project that's been on the burner for awhile. But I am loath to venture out right now.

I sewed dozens of masks for my family and for various groups.

And then I woke one day and decided to join in the Mystery quilt.

After about an hour I almost threw in the towel. The tripping point was the first on the list.........3 metres for a main fabric.

While I do have several packages of 3 metres they are fabric really only suitable for backs. Not interesting enough to be a focus fabric. .

Except for 3.

Now I'm gambling here (that was another day or two to make this decision). I have 3 yds of several possibles. I'm gambling I won't run out of fabric. This is based on the number of kits I have done in the past where there was leftover fabric, sometimes a significant amount. If I run out..........

It became a toss up between Green ( dark and heavy but I think I have 100+ FQ, a lot of that colour.)

OR

Blue ( a really old fashioned looking print suitable for my mother's living room.)

OR

Tan/beige.

As I worked to match them with the necessary extra fabrics my mind settled into a Blue/orange/brown combination.

I rejected the Blue as the main fabric as I just didn't like it.

The Tan was left, and as I pulled more FQ in browns and blues it started to jell (though this morning I traded a couple of the FQ for some pizzazz and added a blue green and a orangy batik.

Today I made the first block, the centre medallion.

Now I have to wait another week? for the next set of instructions.