Malcolm's Mystery Quilt

Part 3

by Cindy Jones

This quilt pattern was the first I developed as a Mystery Quilt. The design is very simple and suitable for even the novice quilter. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who have volunteered to "test drive" my mystery quilt pages. If you have questions you can e-mail me at mcmjones@hawk.igs.net. I hope you enjoy doing this quilt as much as I enjoyed designing it.

Last Updated 13 May 1997, Copyright 1997 Michael, Cindy, Malcolm and Montana Jones

Step 11 - To Begin

• Using one 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 L Blue & Dark Blue, place them right side together
• Place the ruler's 1/4 inch line across the square on the diagonal, draw a line across the square
• Rotate the ruler 180 degrees, and draw another line
• Sew on both the lines you drew, and then cut on the true diagonal
• Repeat once more to produce a total of 4 half square triangles
• Press them flat
• Oh come on, that wasn't that bad;
• Was it?

Step 12 - Same assembly, different colours

• Repeat the previous step using 3 each D Blue and Bright B 2 7/8" x 27/8" squares
• You will have 6 half square triangles when done

Step 13 - Attaching them together

• We will use 2 LBlue/DBlue half square triangles (step 11) and one DBlue 2 7/8" x 2 7/8" square
• Sew the half square triangles together as shown below



• Cut the DBlue Square diagonally
• Attach the triangle produced above to the right side of the rectangle set and produce

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Step 14 - New Rectangle

• You need 2 DBlue/LBlue half square triangles and the other LBlue 2 7/8" x 27/8" square
• Attach the 2 half square triangles together as before
• Cut the Square from bottom left to top right
• Attach the LBlue triangle e to the LEFT side of the pair
• The product should look like this

Step 15 - Making Bigger Triangles

• You need 1 LBlue 4 7/8" x 4 7/8" square and the shapes created in steps 13 and 14
• Cut the LBlue square once diagonally
• Attach one half of the large light blue triangle to each of the strange shapes from steps 13 and 14. This will create two large triangles
• Match LBlue to the SECOND longest side of the strange shape
• CONFUSED??? -------->See the image at Step 16

Step 16 - SEW Square

• We will use one 6 7/8" x 6 7/8" Bright B square and the triangles created in step 15
• Cut the Bright B square diagonally
• Attach a Bright B Triangle to each large triangle (step 15) to create two different 6 1/2" 6 1/2" squares
• One should look like the following image, the other slightly different

Step 17 - More Assembly!

• You will need
• two 6 1/2" x 41/2" Bright B pieces
• 4 DBlue / Bright B squares
• two 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" Bright B squares
• Take 2 DBlue/Bright B squares and one 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" square and sew as shown



• Sew one 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" Bright piece to the top (so that bright touches bright)
• Repeat the above to create a second identical block

Step 18 - Almost done

• Find two DBlue/Bright B Squares and one Bright B square
• Also find one Bright B 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" strip
• Sew the squares together as shown



• Attach the Bright to the top
• Press everything flat

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