I know that Edyta Sitar is working on her next mystery quilt - starting soon! I had decided that it was time for me to finish up the 2024 mystery, which, for the most part, was not done by me as a mystery. In other words, while I started it as a mystery, I waited until she finished showing us what the top was going to look like before I decided to do it.

I did finish it completely.

I’m glad I did it as I learned to not fear the dozens of HST (half square triangles) and I learned to do the Dresden plate sun - how cute it is! Here is the completed top WITHOUT the borders I added. This one I did like without the borders as well - but it was simply too small AND I was afraid I might accidentally cut off some of the trees on the sides when binding.

The top was simply too small without a border, so I put on a double border around it to add some size. I just don’t like really small quilts anymore unless they are going to be baby quilts. I prefer closer to 50” wide or wide. So, I don’t have a measurements in front of me, I believe it did end up about 55” wide by about 65” long.

I used a pine tree border print on the outer border. It is really a nice quilt top. We spent several months in Colorado and it is truly a magnificently beautiful state.

I am glad Edyta made such a mystery quilt that wasn’t a bunch of random blocks. It appears that it is very popular right now to have a mystery quilt just be a sampler quilt and the only mystery about it is “Which block is going to be this month?” I’m baffled by their popularity though maybe it’s the name mystery that is the name I’m surprised at. I think they should call these things a Quilt Along when it is just a bunch of individual blocks that don’t actually make a sort of design when finished. Enough of my opinion about that.

Here is my finished quilt.

It’s my second ever finished mystery quilt. I’ve started a couple of the other ones (the type that are blocks of the month) - but not finished them. This means that this is one I liked enough to finish. My first finished mystery quilt was a Bonnie Hunter one back in 2014/15.

I did add doors to the cabins on this one. I need to put a row of zigzag or blanket stitch in something dark to make a line of demarcation between the doors of some of them and the background/ground fabric. I should have thought about that before I used the light colors on the brown cabins. But I can solve the problem.

Overall, I do like the quilt. I know I will like it even more once quilted. As soon as I finish quilting my charity quilts for 2025, I’d like to start working on these types of my own quilts.

If you want to make this, the clues for this quilt are still on Edyta’s blog. Check it out here.

You can also do a search on our quilted twins website and find some Edyta Sitar’s fabrics here and here. We we have several at $6.99 or $9.99/yard. Be sure to check out what we have if you like the look that Edyta gets with her quilts. (I think they are amazing though I do not find myself necessarily reaching for her creamy warm pallet naturally.) Let me show you here a few.