Old Town Choices

I've only ever finished one mystery quilt, this one above, a Weekend Whatever made in 2005 and finished in 2019. This is the year I'm finally actually going to attempt to do the Bonnie K. Hunter mystery quilt in real time. Note the "attempt" in that previous sentence. Even though I really need a sew-a-long kind of thing right now, circumstances may potentially arise of course. I've always wanted to do one of hers as they're almost always a great sort of quilt and she presents the color choices with such nice inspiration travel photos.

First things first is picking out the fabrics that I'm going to be using. I'm going full on scrappy with mine, so there will be a lot of variety. The above are the "neutrals" that I'll be using. A mix of white and off-white to cream. Turns out I don't have enough of white on white or patterned off-white fabrics in my stash so I threw in some of the least densely black printed of the black white prints that I have on hand.

This next stack is the aqua/turquoise group. There was a lot of fabric to choose from here. Many are quite small pieces so we'll see if they will actually make it into the quilt or not, depending on the sizes that will be required. That's all a part of the mystery I guess.

Here's how the first two color groups look together. I think I'm liking it so far.

The studio assistant checked over my melon to coral choices.

Pretty melon-y and coral-ish.

Using my color wheel to narrow down the choices for the red category.

I think it worked.

Here's the giant stack all together. Now to actually move beyond this point of choosing fabrics (where I've gotten stuck before) and get to making the block components in the first clue...