Scrap Mystery Quilt

This pattern was developed by Penny Pennington. She has graciously offered to share it with the readers of the WWQP. For more information about this mystery quilt, please contact Penny at pennington2@netscape.net. There are five parts to this mystery.

Scrap Mystery Quilt

This is a very quick to piece scrap quilt that can be made with a minimum of six different fabrics (3 lights and 3 darks), it can be done with scraps in your scrap bag from previous quilts or by trading with friends, or it can be done as a charm quilt with every patch a different fabric (it cannot be strip pieced if you are making a charm quilt).

This pattern will make a 36" x 36" quilt top without borders.

Part One

If you are using scraps from your scrap bag you will need the following: 36 darks and 36 lights measuring 2.5" x 2.5" 36 darks and 36 lights measuring 4.5" x 2.5" 36 darks and 36 lights measuring 3.5" x 2.5" If you are using just six different fabrics you will need the following: 1/2 yard each of 1 light (Part Three) and 1 dark (Part One) 1/3 yard each of 1 light and 1 dark (Part Two) 1/4 yard each of 1 light (Part One) and 1 dark (Part Three)

If you are using scraps from your scrap bag you will need fabric to equal the above.

Using the 1/2 yard of dark fabric and the 1/4 yard of light fabric cut the following (or the equivalent from your scrap bag):

light fabric strips 2-1/2 " wide by whatever length (if this comes out of your scrapbag it is whatever length available, if you are cutting from a full piece of fabric is will be approximately 44")

dark fabric strips 4-1/2" wide by whatever length (if this comes out of your scrapbag it is whatever length available, if you are cutting from a full piece of fabric is will be approximately 44")

Strip piece them together so that you will have a strip similar to figure 1 (where the "d" stands for "dark" fabric). (Remember to use 1/4" seams and 12 to 15 stitches per inch).

 _____________________________________
|      this is your light fabric      /
|_____________________________________\
|ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd/
|ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd\
|dddd this is your dark fabric ddddddd/
|ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd\     figure 1 (revised)

cut across the seam for pieces that are 2-1/2" x 6-1/2". Press seam towards the dark fabric.

You will need 36 pieces of the configuration shown in figure 2.

 ___     ___     ___
|   |   |   |   |   |
|___|   |___|   |___|
|ddd|   |ddd|   |ddd|
|ddd|   |ddd|   |ddd|
|ddd|   |ddd|   |ddd|
|ddd|   |ddd|   |ddd|  figure 2 (revised)

When you have completed all of Part One, you can go on to Part Two

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