Alycia Quilts - Quiltygirl: Mystery A6 - A QOV Mystery

CLUE #1

Dark #1 ( Or Navy Blue In my Quilt)

1. Cut 1 – 9 ½ inch strip Width of Fabric

a. Sub Cut into 4 – 9 ½ inch squares

2. Cut 2 – 10 inch Width of Fabric

a. Sub Cut into 8 -10 inch squares

3. Use one of the 10 inch square blocks – and cut 1 - 5 inch square.

IF YOU ARE USING AN EASY ANGLE RULER

4. Cut 1 2 ¾ inch Strip Width of Fabric

a. Cut 4 pairs of *Wings* using your Easy Angle ruler

b. OR!!! If you are super scrappy - you can cut these out of your leftovers from the 9 ½ and 10 inch blocks.

IF YOU ARE NOT USING AN EASY ANGLE:

Cut 4 - 3 1/8 inch squares and Cut them on the diagonal for 8 *wings*

Background Fabric (or funky teal in my quilt)

1. Cut 4 – 10 inch strips width of Fabric

a. Sub cut into 10 inch squares

2. Cu t 4 – 9 ½ inch strips width of fabric

a. Sub Cut into 9 ½ inch squares

3. Cut 1 - 2 ¾ strip width of fabric

a. Sub cut into 16 - 2 ¾ in square

I got 14 squares from my strip, and used the scrap from the large squares to cut the last two.

IF YOU ARE USING THE COMPANION ANGLE

4 Cut 2 – 2 ¾ Strip WOF

a. Sub Cut into 8 pairs of *Geese* using your Companion Angle Ruler

IF YOU ARE NOT USING A COMPANION ANGLE RULER

Cut 4 – 5 11/16 inch squares –Cut along the diagonal both ways ( so you come up with 8 pairs of *geese*

You should have this cut from your Dark #1

And this ( over to the right) from your Background

Step #2

Take 6 of your 10 inch background squares and 6 of your 10 inch Dark #1 squares. Draw a diagonal line on the back of your background square. Stitch 1/4 inch on each side of the drawn line, Slice. Press

You will have 12 – 9 ½ inch Half Squares

Step #3

Grab 4 (or 2 pairs) of your Background *Geese* and the 4 pairs of Dark #1 Wings.

Stitch them into flying geese. Your geese should measure 2 ¾ x 5 inches

Take the 1 Dark 5 inch square and 4 of the background 2 ¾ inch squares

Lay them out like this and stitch together.

At the end of this clue – you should have one 9 ½ inch Sawtooth Star, and 12 - 9 ½ inch half squares. The extra's that you have cut will be used for future clues - so save them ;-)