These photos are of the Merry Mystery Quilt and pillowcase (made from scraps), before it was finished. This quilt began from a "Mystery Quilt" class taught by Merry May through the South Shore Stitchers Quilting Guild in South Jersey. The class took place last summer at the Upper Township Community Center in Tuckahoe, NJ.
The pattern resembles a "Drunkards Path" or "Grandmom's Fan". But it actually a short-cut method of forming a square from 2 different fabrics and then appliquing the arch on top of it by using twill tape to cover the raw edges and then machine stitching the tape down. This action, may be referred to as "couched-on".
The mystery to the story is how these classes take place. The teacher gives you instructions to a project, one step at a time, but does not give you a clue of what the final outcome will look. As you near the end, you see your work come together to from a beautiful pattern. I really the surprise part of quilting.
What happened with my quilt, is that I had more of these fabrics, than was needed for this class (which was to make a crib sized quilt). So, instead of finishing the quilt top in class I decided to take it home, altering the design layout, and making the quilt a twin bed size. It has since been finished and shown at a Palm Beach Quilt Guild, FL meeting.
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