Some of you will know that at the beginning of the ........pandemic......I taught myself how to quilt. I already knew how to sew dresses and the like, heck I made a wedding dress for a friend and all my own maternity clothes. Plus I dabbled in bag making....you will all remember The Netherwood Bag, named after my family.
However, I never really understood the craze for cutting perfectly good bits of fabric up, to sew it all back together again. Wierd. Or so I thought!!
At the beginning of my quilting journey, I was not that great at cutting the fabric. Didn't have all the correct rulers etc. Or the knowledge of how to get the best use out of a fat quarter, let's say. What's a fat quarter?? Yeah took me a while to learn all the different cuts like, fat quarters, charm pack, mini charm pack, jelly roll and so on. All complicated stuff for a newbie.
Now you also know how much I love mysteries. Well fast forward to the day I found Cotton Cuts Puzzle Mystery Quilts. Wait what!!! Yes, a quilt that's a mystery. Best part....it arrives monthly precut! Let me say that again....PRECUT! Yep, you just open the package, grab the handy dandy colourway booklet, the printed instructions and away you go.
It really is a treat to get these little packages each month (or you can opt for getting them all at once in a cute box) and spend a lovely hour putting them together. Now, when you do put them together, you will see from above photos that each quilt piece does not resemble a normal quilt block....at all!! That's because they are like puzzle pieces. So you pop the sewn puzzle pieces back into the labeled bag and wait till month 10. Yep, trust me.
Month 10, and your package arrives with border fabric, and finishing instructions. You then get to put all the puzzle pieces together to form a beautifully designed quilt. THAT my friends, is my favourite part. I just love putting them together, digging through the bags for Clue 5A to sew to Clue 2B and so on. So much fun.
The first Puzzle Mystery Quilt I did was back in the fall of 2021 and was called Olympia. The colourway I chose was named Dorothy. My mums name. I decided to make it and gift it to my Dad in memory of my Mum.
I am working on my 4th puzzle mystery quilt right now, it's called Carnival and the colour way I am doing as you saw above is Ferris Wheel. The 5th one....Tree of Life, IS ON THE WAY....I am so excited. You may still have time to sign up. Go to Cotton Cuts Get Started to select your colourway, and at checkout mention my name to get a free gift with your first order. Yep, I am an ambassador for them. Great company, fab customer service. I highly recommend you give their puzzle mysteries a try!! I am keeping my Tree of Life colour way a secret...for now.
Also, quite often I do video tutorials on how to put the clues together, is this something that your interested in? Would you prefer a LIVE tutorial where we can sew and gab together?? Let me know below and I will set something up on my Tobyknits Youtube Channel.
Until next time....
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