The Brown Bag Mystery Quilt 2022 officially starts tomorrow! This mystery quilt project is being given by Karen Montgomery and only open to folks who buy their fabrics from one of the quilt shops who attend Karen’s annual Sewposium workshop.

With this mystery quilt, the quilt shop chooses the fabrics for you! That seems to have worked really well for some folks, and not so much for others. I purchased my from O’Sewpersonal which is in the St. Louis area. O’Sewpersonal gave you a selection of color chips to choose from, and they showed one fabric in the color way that “might” be in the bag. I actually got a set which included the feature fabric they showed. I’m thrilled with my set!

Karen is an extremely thorough teacher. There is a closed Facebook group for participants and she posts very detailed videos about how to make her mystery quilts. Accurate points are going to matter…nothing relaxed or improv about this project!

There are 2 templates needed to make this quilt. Omnigrid’s Squared Triangle Ruler and their Perfect Rectangle Ruler. Karen wanted us to be sure we knew how to use these two templates before we cut into our quilt fabrics. So she created a block so we could practice. This block will not be in the mystery quilt—it’s one of her bonus projects. I was considering skipping this project but digging around in my box of batik fabrics I found a group of coordinating fabric scraps. There wasn’t enough of any of them to make two matching blocks, so I mixed and matched to make these two placemats.

I was thinking about St. Patrick’s Day when I chose the fabrics, but they great in the autumn as well. Always great to have items that are dual purpose!

Here’s a block made using the same rulers. The light and dark green patches show how the rulers create a square block by adding a triangle on each side. I think this is really fun block. Our guild is collecting 12 1/2 inch blocks for a project, so that’s where this one is headed.

It’s not too late to get your own Brown Bag of Fabrics to join the mystery quilt project. I couldn’t find a list of all the shops selling Brown Bags but if you search for Brown Bag Mystery Quilt 2022 or To The Point Mystery Quilt 2022, a number of quilt shops offering bags will pop up.

There are strict rules for participants, so this will probably be this last time I post anything about this project until it’s completed this summer.