"Piece of Cake" 2024 Brown Bag Mystery Quilt Top

Assembled! Here is my version of Karen Montgomery’s 2024 Brown Bag Mystery Quilt she has named “Piece of Cake.” I wasn’t so sure about the colors while I was sewing it, but now I think this is one stunning quilt.

Back in February, when my bag of mystery fabrics arrived, I pulled out two reds which I didn’t particularly like. You can read more about that in my post from February 22, 2024. At the time I knew I’d swapped in fabrics of similar values to those I’d decided not to use, but I really had no idea what they would look in the finished quilt top. Whew. It worked out!

Like many of the other mystery quilt participants, I also decided to use a print fabric in the 4 patches flanking the center of the quilt. Karen has them as background fabric, with the intention that they could be used to do a fancy quilting design in that negative space. With all the dark fabrics in this quilt, I felt that having 4 cream patches wasn’t the best option for my quilt. I did lay it out with the background patches, but I felt it was just too white.

This quilt is assembled on the diagonal. The steps in Karen Montgomery’s mystery quilt are always very easy. But the assembly, despite all her excellent instructions, is always mind boggling. It’s the point where I’m so glad I didn’t decide to make more than one version because the piecing steps are so easy! But when I’m done, I’m so glad I made at least one!