I started this quilt a while ago when Edyta Sitar talked about it on You Tube. Edyta is the force behind Laundry Basket Quilts website and books. She also designs fabrics for Andover. She is also from Poland originally, as far as I know.

I was willing to do her mystery as I liked pretty much everything she does.

But now that I’m finally getting more organized and ready to actually finish it, I can’t find my week 1 that I did. How frustrating is that?

So I redid it.

This is my second step 1 or water piece. Someday I'll come across that other one and wonder what in the world???

It is probably the easiest of the weeks.

The Mystery is only 6 weeks long. As far as I know all the hints are still on her blog. I went ahead and downloaded them all just in case they took them off before I had a chance to make it to the end.

This is how it is supposed to look when all done. I think it really helps me know how to choose fabrics if I know where we’re going with the quilt. With the time involved and the price of fabric, I prefer that to piecing in the dark.

These are with her fabrics typically chosen in warm tones by Edyta. Mine will not be quite so warm as I will try to use scraps for the river and see what I can find for the mountains and the background of the mountains.

I printed out the templates for the trees and have started working on it. I cut the log cabins out of wood panelling print and decided I want to applique some doors and windows on them - but I can do that after the top is together - I don’t mind. I am also debating as to what colors to make them - how bright, etc.

I don’t have any idea how many people actually are doing or have done this quilt. When she started it, I felt like my head was going in so many directions that I just couldn’t stay up with everything so I put it to the side, but saved the patterns. With only 6 rows, it shouldn’t actually take too long to make up. No doubt that row with the mountains will be the hardest. She made it so the sun was a whole week by itself.

I have finished up the first three weeks of hints AND then I skipped week 4 and now have done weeks 5 and 6. I just haven’t done number 4 yet which is a row made up up of a zillion HST individually created - the mountains.

So, there’s that.

Here is the sun. I had never done a Dresden plate design of any kind before, so this was a good thing for me to do. It was actually pretty easy. I’m happy. I asked my husband if he could make a me template out of plexiglass instead of my having to do a paper template. He has a CNC machine and so he did that for me.

But I’ll show you what I can.

These are the first three weeks. The rest I’ll save, though you can see my sun. It is ready to applique on to the background of the sky in the last week that I’ve not finished. I’ve got to get psyched up for that week. Half Square Triangles are not my best friends.

I have an observation. She has you make the row with all the trees first - and then go back and make the cabins row. However, as you make the trees, you aren’t told to make different backgrounds for the three medium trees which are used in the second row.

So….if you are like me, you will have the background for rows 2 and 3 all the same, UNLIKE what the official Edyta Sitar layout is as shown above. So, without knowing this, I didn’t have that added texture to the quilt top. I had already cut out most of the backgrounds for the trees before the big reveal.

But it’s okay. I just don’t understand why they didn’t mention it. If they did, I missed it in all the verbage. I will say there is a lot of ‘talk’ in these instructions and while I don’t think I missed instructions to make some trees with a different background, it is always possible.

I think when I’m all done, I will add a couple of borders on it to make it a tad bit bigger as well. Plus, I have some wonderful wilderness fabrics (2 kind of large shelves of animals and wilderness) and would love to use some on it to reinforce the theme. Hopefully soon I will have that done.

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

Have a great day wherever you are reading this.

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Edyta Sitar 2024 Mystery quilt - in progress