Friday, September 17, 2010

DaChintzy Code Mystery Quilt

Now that our guild's mystery quilt project is winding up, I decided to join the mystery quilt they're doing on the About.com quilting forum.  Did I mention I love mystery quilts and have trouble resisting them?  The lady who's leading this one calls it the DaChintzy Cody Mystery - a take-off on the DaVinchy Code movie......clever.  She'll be giving out clues every two weeks and we'll be working on our quilts until January. 

The ladies on the Forum helped me with my fabric selection.  Here are the two sets I was deciding between:


Some of the ladies liked one set and some liked the other.  Several of the ladies who are doing 2 quilts suggested I do both since they think it's not going to take much longer to do 2 than 1 if you're doing them at the same time (Enabler's aren't they?  or maybe it's  Misery Loves Company ???).  I decided that since the clues each time are so easy and we have months to do this, I'd jump in and make both of them.  Using up some of my stash sounded good to me at the time.  Time will tell if that was a wise decision or not.

Now that my fabric is selected and cut.  I hope to get to the first part of the sewing before we move.  I may miss doing a clue or two on time because the clues come out on the 1st & 15th and we move in on September 30th, but they are really easy, so I don't think I'll have any trouble catching up with what I miss due to our move.

If you want to join in or read more about it, here's a link to the About.com quilting forum:  http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-quilting

2 comments:

Rebecca said...

Linda, I like the first set of fabrics best but they are both pretty. I think I just like the red in the first photo, I think it adds a lot. So glad to hear you are finally moving! Take it easy! How many more days until retreat???????

Kim D. said...

Looks like you have your work cut out for you. I can't wait to see what the Mystery quilt looks like. Happy Stitching!! How's the packaging going?