2025 Designer Mystery Quilt

I can't believe I made a mistake again on the last block! It's good I have you guys to critique my piecing. Don't worry about letting me know if I have a block pieced incorrectly, it would annoy me more if you see a mistake and don't let me know about it then mention it AFTER the flimsy is quilted!

Here is block 11 with the mistake corrected.

And here is block 12. I looked at this block several times and didn't see any mistakes.

Now it has the sashing attached.

I examined these blocks several times and didn't see any more mistakes so I went ahead and sewed the blocks into rows then added a narrow border and the outside border. Then I sent it to Dana to be quilted.

I did make a change. When the inside section of the quilt was on the display floor, I thought those ugly pinkish beige fabrics just sucked the color out of the quilt, even the orange fabric! The quilt just looked blah when the border fabric laid beside the center, it needed some contrast so a narrow brown bordered was added for some zing. The fabric was intended for the binding but oh well, my quilt will have scrappy binding.

The floral borders aren't cut as wide as the directions dictate, I wanted to have the flowers showing, not partial flower bouquets. Why have a floral border if you are just going to cut those flower sections in half? I measure and remeasured, I could cut 5.5" strips length of fabric and keep the flora bunches intact. The yardage wasn't long enough to miter the corners but that's okay.

Having full flower sections in the border looks so much better than partial flowers. In this close up you can see I fussy cut that narrow brown border which finishes at 1".

I took the flimsy to Dana on Monday and it was returned to me 10 days later. I selected the Daisy Daze pattern for the quilting, I think it's a cute design.

I did NOT use fabric from the mystery fabric collection for backing. I thought this green sunflower fabric looked springy and worked well with the flimsy. You can see the darker fabrics from the front showing through to the backside.

My finished quilt is 71" by 88".

There are plenty of fabrics left from this quilt including 5-fat quarters of the white background fabric. The larger pieces are all back in the box the finishing kit came in. I'm adding fabrics from another quilt that are similar colors, these fabrics will make a nice future compassion quilt(s) but not this summer.

The smaller strips and pieces have been cut to size and placed in their appropriate box.

This quilt was the 2025 Designer Mystery Quilt from the Fat Quarter Shop which has ended with the final block received in May. I am not participating in the 2026 mystery.

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