You may have noticed there were no blog posts the last two weeks. In shades of March 2020, I have not been able to keep up with what day it is. Monday disappears, Tuesday feels like Monday, Wednesday is a blur and I wake up Thursday and realize there has been no blog post. Oh well. It is what it is. I could give you a billion cliches about letting that go. What I will do instead is work on some new material, and tee up several posts so that I can get ahead of things again. That’s the plan anyway.

I have really enjoyed posting about quilts that I’ve made, so I’m going to keep going with that theme a little while longer. Lots of ready material there and the consensus seems to be that you, my dear readers, are enjoying it, so here we go.

This month is a very different quilt for me. This is the result of friends. Friends with ideas. Friends who can talk me into just about anything if it looks fun. I had a group of friends in 2018 who were all doing the Kaffe Fassett Mystery quilt, and it seemed like a spiffy idea. I got myself signed up, and got stuck in making blocks. This is one of the first projects where I mostly kept up with the monthly kits and put the whole thing together in early 2019.

The mystery was offered in two different color ways – light and dark. I chose the dark and felt like I hit the lottery with that choice. The deep plum fabric really makes the jewel tone colors pop, and it has a rainbow color progression from the outside ring to the inside of the quilt. The binding is the same dark plum for a nice finished frame around the quilt.

In typical fashion for me, it’s a large quilt – 82×82 and very different from anything I’ve made in a long time. I had forgotten how saturated the colors are until I took it out to photograph it for this blog post. I think this will end up on the back of the sofa this summer.

Next week I’ll take a look at the quilt that hangs on the wall in my sewing room….