New Quiltville Mystery

Bonnie Hunter has another quilty adventure planned for us called Rhododendron Trail. It starts at the end of November and we are getting our fabrics collected in preparation. This annual tradition has been a special part of my quilting life for many years and helps to create some calm moments of sewing during the sometimes overwhelming pre-Christmas frenzy.

This is last year's mystery called Grassy Creek and I love how it turned out! I followed all the colour recommendations but I did make a few changes when creating my quilt:

1) no string pieced sashings

2) alternating gold and red churn dash blocks

3) a smaller version for my guild's comfort quilt collection, and 

4) no outside border.

For this year's mystery I am veering off the path of the recommended colours in order to use up some batik stash. It is a brave decision to do this since you never know how colours will play together in a quilt.  But with my years of practice sewing Bonnie's mystery patterns, I'm feeling confident to give it a try. It's only fabric after all!

Here are my choices:

As you can see I had enough pink and yellow, but no garnet or aqua. So aqua will be bright green, and garnet will be medium purples. 

After years of making Bonnie Hunter mysteries, I know that this new mystery will be: 

1) made of hundreds of small pieces (which I adore!),

2) a well written quilt pattern with great instructions, 

3) made of complex and interesting blocks to sew, 

4) a well-kept mystery right up until the end, and

5) a fun adventure! 

Hope to see you next Friday on opening day!