Great minds think alike, that's the border I plan on doing, because I think it looks fantastic with Kaffe fabrics.

I reworked my backing by adding some "triangles" on top and bottom. I think I like this one better. Sewing it together will be a challenge and may force me to change it again. Looking forward to seeing what happens as sometimes it tells me what to do!

I have had so much fun with this project. I started a little late and since I have plenty of Kaffe Fassett fabrics, I decided to use what I had and mix in solids and other fabrics that read as solids. Many, many of my fabrics came from my Kaffe scrap basket. Since I didn’t have a lot of large pieces, I had to come up with a layout that featured our blocks and still used a wide variety of fabrics. I gave the blocks a wonky twist. The blocks are sashed with an eggplant colored fabric (it is not black).

Alex, if you look at the closeup picture you may recognize the fabric in the center of the block. It is one of your P & B fabrics! I found it in the box with my Kaffe fabrics. You were playing with his fabric long before this - a least at my house!!

Thank you so much for gifting us with this project just when we all needed it.

Donna

After I learned the new flying geese technique I couldn't stop! No half or quarter square triangles for me.

Thanks much, sewtoomuch! Julia (Sweetshelties)

Finished my mystery quilt today. Mine is a queen size. Thanks Alex this was fun.

Absolutely. Look carefully at the difference between the sides and the top and bottom. They are different. My set used 25 blocks. So it is 5 x5. If you have more rows it will be different

Sewtoomuch, love your top and how you finished with your set-in design. Hope you don’t care if I copy your idea. Julia (Sweetshelties)

I've started doing the back for my Mystery Quilt using the scraps that I have left over. Here is what I have pinned on my design board thus far. Lots of colors again. Will probably use large pieces of Kaffe all around. Now I need to figure out how to sew it together!

Beautiful!

Here is the top of my Kaffe Mystery quilt . Love the colors and am happy with the border that I made for it. Lots of color which I love!. This was my first time doing these types of blocks so I learned a lot. Loved working with the color wheel and will use it again as I piece together the leftover fabrics for my backing. What a great discovery to use the glue stick sometimes! Thank you Alex for an enjoyable experience.

Here’s my quilt I’ve named 2Q-Squared (Qaffe Qovid Quarantine Quilt) – 2020.
Designing from scratch was new for me so I appreciated Alex’s guidance in selecting and making the pieced blocks. I enjoyed using the Kaffe fabric as a basis for picking the fabrics for the pieced blocks using the color wheel. I’ve never used a color wheel before, but I’m sure I will again. One of my rules was to use some white in each block. I found that I wanted to put it in less predominant places the more blocks I made.
My accountant’s brain kicked in when I was finishing so you’ll notice symmetry in the placement of the “solid” Kaffe blocks, the setting triangles and the borders. I needed a solid border to stop my eye so I used orange and purple 1-inch finished strips. I think black would have looked nice too. I ran out of the pink border fabric so I pieced some of the orange in the middle to match the blocks in the middle. I also used the “half-square triangle in the corner to make it look like a mitered border” trick, and I think it worked because of the solid fabric and the busy-ness of the printed fabrics. If I were to do this again, I’d piece the Kaffe six-inch blocks using a quarter square triangle block, but the fabric is so busy it’s ok.
Thank you, Alex. I was ready to pack it up for the long arm quilter until I heard you say you were going to straight-line quilt yours. I’m looking forward to seeing what you plan to do with this. I may try it.
I’m looking forward to the baskets.

Do you have a listing of all the blocks that you made from your super block book?

My finished top. What a challenge! I used both the hand dyes and the other solid fabrics and both Kaffe set of fabrics. My border is a little different . Now to quilt it!


Roberta Brunet