Block 1 - Laundry Basket Quilts Mystery Quilt Results

Dec 6

Written By Jenny

Block One from Laundry Basket Quilts’ Mystery Quilt was an adventure to say the least. You’d think a simple four patch wouldn’t cause one a lot of trouble, but…let’s say that it was good this block was simple.

These blocks are only 4 1/2 inches (unfinished) and that was a part of why I wanted to do this particular Mystery Quilt; more practice with small pieces and by default, getting to work on my accuracy.

I referred back to my color chart and here’s my first color pull (yes, I said 1st):

Since I am using fat quarters and I have my Deb Tucker Trimmers, I cut my pieces at 2 5/8 inches so I could trim down. It wasn’t always exact as I got “close enough” because since I was trimming down, I didn’t straighten the edge of my fat quarter first. Well, I was safe - except for my one blue strip.

So, I had a decision to make - do I recut the same color or pick a new one and use these for another block as I know (because yes, I’m doing this late) there are some smaller blocks I can repurpose these for. I decided to save these and picked a new blue and light to go with it. I’ll admit it, I was feeling lazy too and didn’t want to rip out that day.

I did my piecing a bit different than Editya as I sewed a light and dark strip together and then trimmed down to the size I needed. Then, I squared up using the Four-Patch Square Up tool. I really liked using this tool as it has a center circle to align the middle as well as lines to align your seams to making the squared up block look nearly perfect.