Thursday, October 3, 2024

Marble Mystery ++ Oct ++ Hourglass & Triple Units

Who likes making hourglass units?  

Welcome to the October sewing instructions for the Marble Mystery Quilt, the tenth annual Meadow Mist Designs mystery quilt along!  This month we will be making some hourglass and triple units.

The Marble Mystery Quilt is a free quilt-along that will run from July 2024 through March 2025 to make a throw sized quilt (about 65 ½" x 65 ½") with a set of instructions posted the first Thursday of every month.  The quilt pattern is at an advanced beginner level containing basic piecing techniques (no applique, Y-seams, or paper piecing).

The directions and all of the other information relate dot the mystery quilt can always be found on the Marble Mystery Home Page.   


Easy to Print PDF Instructions

If you would like easy to print instructions for the October instructions, they can found as a free download through my shop:  






Cutting Instructions



Hourglass Units

B/bg HST UNITS

1. Place a fabric B square 5 ½" x 5 ½" and a bg square 5 ½" x 5 ½" right sides together (or 5 ¾" x 5 ¾" squares if they were oversized). 

Draw a diagonal line using a removable marking device on the back of the bg square (shown as the solid line).

2. Sew a ¼" seam on either side of the solid line (shown as the dotted lines). Cut on the marked line and press seams toward fabric B. Do not trim the half-square triangle (HST) units at this point.

3. Repeat to make a total of 8 B/bg HST units approx. 5" x 5" (approx. 5 ¼" x 5 ¼" if using oversized squares).




C/bg HST UNITS

1. Place a fabric C square 5 ½" x 5 ½" and a bg square 5 ½" x 5 ½" right sides together (or 5 ¾" x 5 ¾" squares if they were oversized). 

Draw a diagonal line using a removable marking device on the back of the bg square (shown as the solid line).

2. Sew a ¼" seam on either side of the marked line (shown as the dotted lines). Cut on the solid line and press seams toward fabric C. Do not trim the half-square triangle (HST) units at this point.

3. Repeat to make a total of 8 C/bg HST units approx. 5" x 5" (approx. 5 ¼" x 5 ¼" if using oversized squares).






HOURGLASS UNITS

1. Place a B/bg HST unit and a C/bg HST unit right sides together as shown so that the seams nest. 

Draw a diagonal line using a removable marking device on the back of one of the HST units (shown as the solid line) perpendicular to the seam.

2. Sew ¼" on both sides of the solid line (shown as the dotted lines). Cut on the marked line and press seams open.

3. Trim the hourglass units to 4 ½" x 4 ½". Repeat to make a total of 16 hourglass units.



D/bg/D Triplet Units

1. Arrange and sew together the following fabric pieces, pressing the seams open or towards the fabric D squares, to make a D/bg/D triplet unit 4 ½" x 16 ½".

2 fabric D squares 4 ½" x 4 ½"
1 bg rectangle 4 ½" x 8 ½"

2. Repeat to make a total of 12 D/bg/D triplet units.









HOW TO JOIN
This has been my most asked question, how to join in on the Marble Mystery quilt?  There is no official sign up, list, or cost to join in the mystery quilt along.  Each set of instructions will be posted to this blog as a post on the first Thursday of each month.

To ensure you do not miss any of the posts, you can do any of the following:

  • Join the Meadow Mist Designs Newsletter, the newsletter typically is sent out the day after the instructions are posted with a link to that month's instructions.



Many thanks to our generous sponsors!



Any questions? Leave them in a comment below or post them to our Facebook group page. I look forward to seeing everyone's cut fabrics. The next set of instructions will be published on the first Thursday of November, the 7th.

 


 




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  1. KateOctober 5, 2024 at 8:21 AM

    Looking forward to finishing up this clue. Thank you for another mystery quilt along.

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