Announcing: the Tea and Crumpets Memorial Day Quilt Mystery

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It’s almost time for a picnic.  Let’s make a pretty Tea and Crumpets Mystery Quilt for the table. Choose florals for a spring quilt or red, white and blue for a patriotic one. This quilt finishes at about 64″ x 77″, although you can make it bigger with borders.  Have fun this summer!

The Mystery Quilt Begins Monday, May 25 at 9AM EST

There are 7 clues, one per hour.  This is an easy quilt so the clues won’t take the entire hour.  (Except maybe the last two.) I hope you don’t figure it out TOO early! As always, anyone who sends a picture of any step will get a copy of the completed professional pattern at the end. Send your pictures to
PhoebeMoonDesigns@gmail.com
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This mystery quilt was inspired by the Cool to be Square blog hop, so it might not surprise you to learn that this quilt is completely made of squares – okay, maybe a couple of rectangles, but mostly squares.  Here are the fabric requirements.  Scraps will do just fine if you don’t have enough yardage.  If you have an Accuquilt Fabric Cutter, may I suggest these dies?

Accuquilt Dies

Tea and Crumpets Quilt Mystery Fabric ChoicesFabric Requirements

  • 4-1/4 yards Background
  • 1/2 yard Square # 1 Fabric – if you are going to do an I Spy quilt, this is the fabric you would use.  Fabric #1 and #2 can be the same fabric if you really like it a lot.  I used a fussy cut print – see the Fussy Cutting Tutorial below.
  • 1/2 yard Square # 2 Fabric – if you are going to do an I Spy quilt, this is the fabric you would use.
  • (4) Colorful Fat Quarters. Try to pick the colors used in Fabrics #1 and #2. My colors are green, purple, blue, and gold/tan.
  • 2/3 Red.  Or your favorite color that goes with Fabrics #1 and #2.

Not required but helpful:

See you on Monday!


How to Fussy Cut a Motif

I had a lot of trouble deciding on Fabric # 1 and #2 for my sample.  Finally,  I found a very old piece of fabric with different fussy cutting motifs on it. I decided I would use them as my fabric #1 and #2.

How to Fussy Cut a Fabric to feature it in a quilt block

Then came the problem of actually cutting!  4-3/4″ square is a very odd size.  I thought about cutting a template out of cardboard, but at the last minute I found a square of gridded vinyl plastic.

I cut a 4-3/4″ x 4-3/4″ square, marked the diagonal, and used it to center the floral motif on the square.

How to Fussy Cut a Fabric to feature it in a quilt block
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5 thoughts on “Announcing: the Tea and Crumpets Memorial Day Quilt Mystery”

  1. I’ve been busy with lots of quilts this past month. I will try to work on this as my husband is working a 12 hour shift on Memorial Day. No interruptions. Ha.

  2. I like the idea of using red, white, and blue fabrics – have to see what I can put together from my stash. We have a chance of rain on Monday, so it’ll be a good day to stay in and sew.

  3. I tried making it smaller when I designed this but it just didn’t look right. Plus, when this quilt is done, I am going to add a scalloped border. When it’s done, look at it and see what you think.

  4. Thanks. I want to sew along on Monday. Need to think this through, but even if I don’t sew. I’ll be watching the process. Be safe and have fun.

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