Saturday, August 4, 2012

Week #1 Sunbonnet Sleuth Mystery

A Back To School Mystery...I am really into listening to mysteries this week. Still working on the series by Charles Todd with a WWI nursing sister as the main mystery sleuth... When Bess gets back to England she discovers the killer has shot, but not killed a young woman at a farmhouse. Bess bundles her into a dog cart (not everyone had cars in 1916) trots her off to the local doctor's clinic. The nurse at the clinic takes one look at the gunshot patient and says, "I'd better go get us all a cup of tea!" I LOVE this series!

At any rate, tea has absolutely nothing to do with the new Sunbonnet Sleuth mystery quilt. Instead, it is more about people who live in Atlanta GA do in August. Off to the beach, then back to school. Wonder how I am going to fit beach and school into one quilt? You gotta start sewing to find out!



Here are your fabric requirements. The finished quilt measures 49-1/2" wide x 64" long. The blocks are 10" x 10". The four fabrics on the top row are used in the blocks along with the pale aqua on the second row. The other 3 aqua fabrics are for sashings, borders and binding. 

As for beach vacations before heading off to school, here is my youngest granddaughter Cymia (on the right), with her cousin Madeline (on the left) enjoying a bumper boat ride at Rehoboth Beach, VA while on their end of summer vacation with the family. The girls are both 5 yrs old and are best of friends. 

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  1. The Calico QuilterAugust 4, 2012 at 4:30 PM

    I eagerly awaited the first instructions for your new mystery. I started digging in the fabric closet looking for possible selections and of course I came up with two sets than may work - each very different. I hope to use this as a Project Linus quilt, so each has a focus fabric for the border that is a juvenile print, one more so than the other. I guess I'll have to wait until step 2 to decide which I will use. Can't wait until next week! Thanks for doing the mystery quilts.

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    1. Jean AnnAugust 6, 2012 at 6:12 AM

      A child will love this quilt. It is whimsical. Try to stick to light aqua or light blue of some family for the 1 yard of light aqua.

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    2. The Calico QuilterAugust 6, 2012 at 9:07 AM

      Oh, rats, now I'm confused again! I finally settled on a color scheme drawn from the fall leaf print on mottled ecru background. The colors are (in the same order as yours): teal, gold, rust, espresso for the top row and lt green, med green, ecru, leaf print for the bottom row. The leaf print is from Bittersweet by Nancy Halvorsen. Are these going to fight with the theme of the blocks? Should it be more nautical? I don't have nautical fabrics right now. Any help you can offer without blowing the mystery would be appreciated!

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  2. The Calico QuilterAugust 4, 2012 at 4:33 PM

    Oh, by the way - I LOVE Downton Abbey too! Perhaps I should check out your Charles Todd mystery books. I wonder if they're on Kindle?

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    1. Jean AnnAugust 6, 2012 at 6:11 AM

      Yes, you can get them on Kindle. There is a Charles Todd website that gives them all in order as they are a series.

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    2. The Calico QuilterAugust 6, 2012 at 9:08 AM

      I just ordered the first one in the series. As if I needed another book in the queue to read.....I subscribe to a couple of free Kindle book blogs and they keep me well supplied with reading material.

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  3. Tricia BenesAugust 4, 2012 at 5:17 PM

    I haven't done any of your mystery quilts before. I would like to try this one. Do we have to use the colors that are in your example? And prints or solids? Sorry, I'm confused. LOL! Is there any where else that you have more explanations? Thanks, Tricia

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  4. The Calico QuilterAugust 5, 2012 at 5:51 AM

    Hi, Treadle, I thought I'd interject about your question. I've made several of these mystery quilts. I don't use the same fabrics bur try to select a color scheme that relates to hers - for example, where she has purple/gold/hot pink/black, I have rust/yellow/peach/espresso brown. I picked a light tan for her light aqua, and two greens for her two teals. I substituted a leaf print for her aqua print on the bottom far right. I try to match her color choice intensity and depth in my choices. Hope this helps.

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  5. Tricia BenesAugust 5, 2012 at 6:33 PM

    O.K...Thanks...I have done mysteries that the instructions were by light, med and dark but not color. I will try to figure out what to use here. Tricia

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