First Cut

Look! An actual cut has been made for the first block clue in the Old Town mystery quilt. Shocking ,right? That's all so far to report on that. I put this lovely piece of fabric from friend Tim's travels behind the cut pieces because we're not supposed to show the sizes of the cut fabrics while the mystery quilt is in process. The 'no spoilers' rule works in quilting too, mostly because the pattern gets locked and then sold after the mystery is revealed.

Bonnie K. Hunter has really great tips and tricks for block making in these mystery quilt directions, and several different way to make the block. And also using several different ruler options too. It's very thorough and well explained. I'm going to try them all out I think since I have to make so many of one block. It's always fun to learn a new way to do something and maybe one of the methods will work better for me than the usual way I do it now.

I already had her Essential Triangle ruler, which I've used before. She also suggested a new one called Simple Folded Corners that I got from her and I'll be trying it out for the first time on this project. There are some good photos in the mystery quilt directions showing how to use it, so hopefully that will help me figure it out. More later on that after I actually use it.