Round 8 - Mystery Quilt 2025 Edyta Sitar "Tennessee"

I went to town on this top - as I really wanted to move on to another project but wasn’t allowing myself to do so until this top was done. Everyone has their limits and mine is pretty high, but I had reached mine of recently started tops and chaos in my mind about projects.

I am really enjoying this mystery now more than ever. To be completely honest, the center is the part I don’t care for as much. Which is sad to me, as a medallion quilt deserves to have all eyes go to the center. But it’s okay. The rest is really turning out beautiful.

This round was a round of only a simple house block. Now Edyta asked us to make the house with a square and a flying goose block (can I say that?) I decided, instead, to cut a rectangle and use easy corner triangles or snowball blocks and sewed the squares on the corners, pressed back, and trimmed off.

It meant I just cut rectangles/squares instead of two pieces. It probably took a bit more fabric but as soon as I finish these, I’m turning my bonus pieces into pinwheels which will look super nice.

Here are the blocks I made on this round.

Note - I did add a cream strip to each end of the houses as the pattern calls for a strip only on one end. However, I had plans to even it out and give space to those corner blocks.

I preferred a bit of visual break and there was room - so why not? I didn’t understand why it was designed kind of off centered like that, esp. since the next round - the points were also off centered.

However, I have the advantage of hindsight even though the designer obviously planned it this way. However, it is now my quilt and I can change it however I wish. :)

I did try my best to make the house blocks go from light to dark


I did end up trimming the extra cream strip to 1-1/4” so the end would be 3/4” as a spacer strip.

Once it was all added to the top, it now looks like this.

 
 

I do like the shading I achieved with the use of the low volume fabric in the center.

I am using the line of fabric called Foraged, Found and Hand me Down by Stephanie Slewinski of Moda.

You can get yours here. Linked below are the half yard bundle packs. You can click on the pictures and it will take you to the items.

I have only one more round at this point. Getting very close - and I’m ready to be finished!

Thanks so much for coming along with me on this journey!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this.

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