Mystery Quilt

Each January, our quilt guild decides on a yearly project.  Last year it was a block of the month sampler, which for me, resulted in a beautiful Ricky Timms medallion quilt which I gave to my step-daughter, Elly, for Christmas.  This year, our project is a "mystery quilt."  We follow the directions for the quilt, not knowing how it will look in the end!  (I'm not sure if I like this or not!)

We start with a focus fabric.  Here's mine:

Next we choose around 10 coordinating fabrics.  Here are the directions for part 1 !

Following these directions,  here are my first two blocks.  I did make 8 bear paw blocks.

  

I'm not feeling comfortable with this mystery business!  I don't know if I will have enough of some of this fabric, although it's supposedly not repeated again in the quilt.  But I like the fabrics to tie in and have some united artistic composition!  I would want to reuse some of the fabrics!  I will have to think about this!!