Scrappy Quilt – Spring Mystery Quilt Along 2025!

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It’s Spring…. in the northern half of the world… and since we haven’t had a Mystery QAL for a long time, I thought it would be fun to have one now!

I love quilt alongs, they are always so much fun. But lately I haven’t had a lot of time to either run one or participate in one.

I also love mystery quilt patterns, as long as they use scraps, because I need to know that I don’t need to have anything that matches – other than the background if that makes sense. The scraps make up the dark value in the quilt, and the background gives the contrast.

So, back to the QAL itself – I had an quilt design idea in my head and went hunting for my box of 2 1/2″ square scraps… and I didn’t just find one… I found four!!!

My goodness…. I did not realize I had so many!!

I then picked some and started chain sewing…

By the time I finished, I had not made a dent in my four boxes of 2 1/2″ squares…. go figure!!!

But oh well, at least I’ve used up a few in this project….!!!!

Our Spring Mystery Quilt

Here are some Q & A’s about the quilt we will be making…

What is a Mystery Quilt-Along?

It’s basically a fun time where we make a quilt, step by step, a week at a time. We won’t be making a new block each week, but I am going to try to make it so that you will be kept guessing until the end!

What will we be making?

We are making a quilted table topper. I have limited time but want to have something fun to work on, and something new to pop on my kitchen table… so it is going to be small – about 24″ x 24″ without borders. You can make it bigger by adding borders to make it a lap quilt, or larger table topper.

Since we are all using scraps, we will all end up with different quilts!

Scrappy Spring Mystery QAL- What you need

Fabric Requirements

Grab your scraps! You can choose ones that are shades of spring, or completely scrappy.

We will need:

2 1/2″ squares

3″ squares

8 pieces of scraps of about 9″ square (leftover 10″ squares would be perfect)

and

1/4 yard of background fabric

And that is just about it!

Oh, of course, you will need the usual sewing and quilting goodies – sewing machine, rotary cutter, rulers, etc… although we will also add a bit of hand sewing this time!

When are we starting?

We are starting next Tuesday…. and we’ll be going for the whole of April.

The plan is:

Today – Introduction

Tuesday April 8th – Part 1

Wednesday April 16th – Part 2

Wednesday April 23rd- Part 3

Wednesday April 30th- Finishing!

Each week we will be doing a little bit, not too much so that we (I) don’t get overwhelmed…

What else?

I’m sure there are other things I should be telling you about the QAL, but my brain isn’t working well at the moment… so if you have any questions, let me know in the comments and I will answer in the comments as well so that everyone can see 🙂

Oh, there will be a special extra for my lovely members in the QAL, so stay tuned!

See you next Tuesday for step 1!

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