THE MYSTERY BEGINS!

 I have done a mystery quilt with Bonnie Hunter for numerous years now.  So many I've lost count.  I wasn't going to do this one but when she released the colors, a trip to Lowes was in order.  Here is her link for the introduction https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2020/10/grassy-creek-quiltville-mystery.html

My reasoning for not doing the quilt was I hadn't finished Frolic from last year!  I was into sewing up a tester quilt for Kitchen Table Quilting when the clues came out and I just couldn't keep up.  Not only that, last year's clues were only partial.  Bonnie would give you parts to cut but not pieces to make and I wasn't fond of that process.  I hope she doesn't do that this year.  

I did participate in the Unity Quilt along for Quarantine.  

I'm a little further along than this but it was many many pieces and I have a bit of buckling in the center so I folded it up and put it away for now.  Maybe it will fold itself flat.  HA!  I did use up quite a bit of patriotic fabrics that I had accumulated so that made me happy and it gave me something to do while I was stuck at home.  

But back to Frolic.  I'm a member of the Quilt and Lose Team on www.sparkpeople.com .  This is a great team and we learn so much from each other.  I'm not sure how good we are at losing weight but we do like to quilt.  We have a monthly challenge where we list a UFO or project we want to complete and if we finish that project during the month, we might win some charms!  So I finished my October project mid month and decided I would make completing Frolic for November.  If I can get a small top finished I can then start the Grassy Creek mystery with Bonnie.  I dont have to buy one bit of fabric!  Isn't that the goal?  

Yesterday I was working on my one Frolic block for the day and my husband came in to the empty the trash.  I had a bin of parts for Frolic on the floor and he attempted to empty it into the trash bag.  Maybe I should have let him.  

Here are a few of my previous mystery quilts!  

Good Fortune done in Civil War.  This quilt went together quickly and I had most of what I needed to complete it.  

I can't remember the name of this mystery but I named it Memories of Maine.  The fabrics selected were all blueberry fabrics that I purchased in Maine when my MIL had passed.  

Alletaire was done in FSU fabrics and colors.  When I went to Lowes to get the paint chips, I was wearing this shirt!  Had to be.  

Here I was auditioning a border.  Somewhere I have a finished pic.  Maybe.  I'm not that good at taking pics.  

One of the reasons I had put Frolic away was that Jack came to visit too often and I was so over the frolicking part!  Happy quilting1