Our quilt guild purchased a license for Mary Mayhem’s “Regatta” Mystery quilt. So while we aren’t having meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, members of our group are stitching up this mystery quilt at home. (You can also purchase a digital copy for your own personal use).

It calls for light blue and bright 5 inch squares of fabric. I sometimes cut 5 inch squares from scraps of fabric after a project and save them in a bin with with other pre-cuts. So some of my 5 inch squares are from this stash and others are commerical pre-cuts which I had in my stash. I had to purchase the light blues because my bin of stashed blue fabrics has been pretty much depleted.

With a quilt named “Regatta”, I decided it was very likely that the finished quilt will look like a harbor on race day! So when I saw this digitally printed fabric, “Sea-Breeze”, Part of the Shoreline Stories fabric line by Hoffman I just went ahead and ordered the fabric. This print of a watercolor is much more stunning in real-life. I will need to piece the back, but I expect to have left over light blue fabric so that won’t be a problem. (Unlike many of the stashed fabrics I use, this line of fabric is new and is currently available in shops).

This is the first time I’ve ever made a mystery quilt which has been made before. It’s not a brand new pattern. Typically I’ve signed up to make mysteries which truly are a mystery. You can’t cheat and google anything, so you really don’t know what you are making until the final steps. It turns out one of my guild friends has made this quilt once before. Without asking her to give the completed quilt design away, she did confirm that the finished quilt has what do look like sailboats.

So far so good! This is going to be fun! I hope I like the riot of colors I’ve assembled!

Because this is a licensed mystery quilt, I’m not going to post the steps as I sew them. So the next time you’ll see it, it will be the completed quilt. Since the steps are being distributed once a month, that will probably be sometime late spring or early summer.

In the meantime, I have another quilt project that I can’t wait to show you!