Tumbleweed 2012 Mystery
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New Years Day Mystery
Every year, I offer a mystery on New Years Day that teaches a new technique or offers a challenge. This years mystery quilt is called Tumbleweeds and is a great stash buster. The picture above shows tester JoAnn hand sewing the binding on her quilt.
Tumbleweeds will toss and turn as they dance across the prairie in this charming lap quilt (55" x 55") made from strips. The fabric requirements are:
- (2) 2” wide x WOF strips from 12 different fabrics, totaling 24 strips. Try to keep the value in the medium to dark range.
- 1 /3 yd accent color with a light value
- 2/3 yd Background (light value)
- 1 1/2 yd Border (dark value, or something with all the colors of the strips in it.)
Nice to have, but not required:
- a Shape Cut ruler to cut strips
- a 45 degree angle ruler like a Cozy Strip Tube Ruler. If you don't have one, make a template by cutting a 7" square in half on the diagonal.
- a 6-1/2” square ruler
- a way to label your blocks - labels or pins (OK, this might be required. The cutting and sewing is easy, but the blocks fit together like a puzzle, so it is best to label them)
These clues are in PDF format. If you don't have Adobe on your computer - or are having trouble reading the PDF - try downloading an Adobe update. Click on the banner to the right.
Click here for the First Clue.
Click here for the Second Clue Please note: the triangles came out a bit distorted in the PDF. They are 45 degree triangles, which is why I recommended the Strip Tube Ruler.
Clue One and Two are actually the hardest clues. If you have gotten this far, you are flying!
 This is the quilt that JoAnn is working on in the picture above. |
 Jan Cornwell from Chattanooga TN used a blue background. Doesn't it just glow? |
.JPG) Lissa H used warm colors. |
 Karen used all her scraps in the pieced border |
 Tester Ron used a Braided border. |
 Susan H changed the outer borders |
 This is Janets Quilt in progress |
 That red makes Lan's quilt quite dramatic. |
 Laura said she will do this quit again (a great compliment!) |
 Another unique border from Sherrie |
 Margie hasn't decided on a border yet. |
 Carol made good use of a border fabric. |
 Jill is going to add a border |
 Birdie |
 Lissa |
Leonore from south central Wisconsin tells us the quilt to the right started with a chartreuse shirt that she got from a thrift store just before Christmas. It literally shouted at her - "take me home, I want to play with blue!!!" Then she found this mystery, which called for a small amount of focus fabric, and knew this was where that shirt needed to be used! She calls this quilt "Eye of the Storm". |
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 Carol's Tumbleweed Quilt made larger |
Betty from BC Canada used 6 Kaffe Fassett fabrics that she had been saving for a while to make the top to the right. She added 6 tone on tones, an accent of light blue & a light green background fabric. And then she made the quilt longer! She added 2 rows which gave it a great look. For the border, she used some of the end bits to create a few 4.5" blocks turned on point which made them 6" so the outside border is 6". the total quilt size came out to 59 x 70". |
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 From Irene S |
From Rosie K
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