Thanks for posting this. I will save the clues for a later time.

Hey!
I've got strips! They are Christmas ones I got from a swap years ago. I don't have anything else to make from them so they will do for this.
I knew I had some but couldn't find them till this morning.
I just didn't want to cut MORE strips if I had some, ya know?
Anyway, I'm printing off the clues as they come & will start on it again in a few minutes.

I love Christmas fabric! This sounds wonderful!!!

"Jan" my darling sewing machine is at the shop keeping oiled and beautiful! I will print the mystery and plan to do it later.
I am in the middle of trying to free motion quilt a queen size for the first time. "Jan" was displeased with me so I took her to Ricky. Maybe have her oil and TLC she will play nice again. Then I will be able to see about the mystery.
My first queen quilt is a Cindy Carter pattern. She has the best designs. Love her work.

Can't do it today as watching my grandson, so no sewing time. I am saving all the fabric requirements and clues so I can do this some day soon. Anyone taking part in this please post pictures to share sometime. Would love to see them.

I seem to recall reading here on the Board that some had done a New Year's Day Mystery this past year. Anyone know anything about this ... if there's one for this coming year, I'd be interested.

Or who/where/when are other ones?

I have everything cut and ready to go for today then a special custom project came in for a customer. So, I've gotta get that done first. Gonna take this afternoon to finish.

I've printed the first 2 clues so far and it's killing me not to open up clues 3 & 4 posted so far.

I'll post some pics tomorrow.

Bummed me out to not be able to do this throughout the day but customers need to come first before "play".

Was it Planet Patchwork?

I have no clue ... just remember it being mentioned!

OK, I've never done a mystery quilt before, but I thought I'd give it a go. I didn't have a jelly roll, either, but I had some diff colors of the same small print, so I used strips of them. And I had some yardage of ecru with small white flowers, so I made that the background.

I washed, dried, starched & pressed all fabrics prior to cutting. I cut everything on Thurs & Friday - yeah, took me a couple of days. And apparently, I didn't cut right, either. Luckily, I had a few half-strips left over, so I was able to cut some more small squares to fill in where they needed to go, based on my random-color "pattern."

After I got going, even as novice a quilter as I am, I realized there are much better (EASIER) ways to piece this puppy. Too bad - I'd already cut everything. I'm sure it was done to make it easy to follow along & increase the "mystery" aspect of it.

And now that everything's all put together, I have confirmed my original feelings on scrappy (not my fave). But, I'd already planned it for a charity quilt, so I won't have any problems giving it away! BUT, and this is a biggie - I don't know how I'm gonna quilt it!

I can do straight-line & stitch in the ditch, but (spoiler alert!!!!) there are large patches of ecru with 2 seams running thru 'em!! Seems like a logical place to put some sort of stencil, but won't those seams get in the way??

Oh, and I don't mean to get all holy or preachy, but I did find sewing a gazillion short & straight seams rather tedious. Just my humble opinion!