January is always more fun when Carole Carter releases the “cutting” requirements for her next MYSTERY quilt. This year; the project will run from January through August, with “clues” coming on the 3rd Friday of the month. I love the name of this mystery…..she calls it The TWIST – Do go take a look and maybe dance along! The cutting instructions are in a PDF on Carole’s blog, From My Carolina Home – Scrap Dance Mystery 2020-The Twist
I went for the scraps of course! I had fun playing with the scrap bin and this is what I chose for my 4 1/2″ blocks –
I have “extras” so I may discard the ones with the white background when it comes time to do something else with the pattern.
And for the 5″ squares, I have a similar variety –
It is not all floral, I threw in some tone on tone and a few geometric pieces too.
The background fabric uses a lot of material. I started with scraps, but quickly moved into yardage to cut the number of pieces required.
I chose white on white/cream for the 5″ and threw in a huge variety of pieces for the 4 1/2″. Small and not so small prints on a white/cream background. It will be interesting to see what we do with all of these pieces.
Anyone who knows me knows I cut for a king size….. I enjoy cutting; and piecing quilt tops~!~
Are you doing the “TWIST” ? It’s not to late to start – hop over to Carole’s blog, From My Carolina Home and tell her I sent you~!!~
Stitching Grandma 
Beautiful fabics. It will be fun to see it evolve over the next few months.
I am not doing any mystery or sew alongs this year, but might print out the Twist to do later.
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You know me, I start cutting scraps, and I could cut for 20 king size quilts out of just one container! I had fun picking these fabrics. I could spend DAYS cutting scraps……
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Love the bright and cheery fabrics you chose for your quilt.
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Thanks Mona. I never met a scrap I didn’t like…. 😉 I’ve added some more to the collection, so it will be a surprise to me how it all turns out. 🙂
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Thanks for the mention! I would advise, though, that you move the dotted fabrics into the color scraps and use only the tone-on-tone for the background. I think you’ll be happier with the final result.
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Thanks for the input on the dotted fabrics. I did think about this for several days and finally decided to remove them. I had a hard time doing that as I had cut “yardage” for those 4 1/2 squares…but, I put them back in my bin for another day and cut more tone on tone. So hard to decide when it is a mystery, but your advice is well respected. I also took out the scrappy pieces that have a white background. I’ve added a few new scrappy pieces to get a little more variety. The sizes are usable in other things, and I do like to mix it up a bit. THANK YOU for putting this mystery quilt project together again. I always enjoy it and encouraging others to give it a try. 🙂
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