Elise Charlene's Mystery Quilt, Jan-July 2011

A mystery quilt for my new great-niece Elise Charlene, born March. 16, 2011.

My local quilt guild presented "clues" each month to make this quilt. First, they told you what sort of colors to select (6 fabrics from black to white, a 'zinger' and 4 other colors). Then they would tell you to cut so many squares, triangles, and strips and sew them together in a certain order. Anyway, you ended up with blocks like this:


and they they suggested different ways to arrange the blocks. The inner portion was quilted in straight diagonal lines in pink; the outer borders were in a free-motion flowers and leaves pattern in a varigated pink and green thread.