Monday, October 6, 2025

2025: Dealers Choice, A Brown Bag Mystery 2025

Completed quilt top May 22, 2025
Designed by Karen Montgomery of Nine-Patch-A-Day Facebook page

Audiobooks:    Brain Damage – Freida McFadden
    Evvie Drake Starts Over – Linda Holmes
    Personal (Jack Reacher) – Lee Childs
    The Other Einstein – Marie Benedict
    The Once and Future Witches – Alix E. Harrow

I have explained in several other Brown Bag Mystery Quilt (BBMQ) posts how this mystery works, but to refresh: I choose a brown bag, which is stapled shut, and a strip of fabric is attached to the handle of the bag. Other than that little hint, I have no clue what the fabrics will look like, and no clue as to what the pattern will be. All I get for instructions are what and how to cut the fabric. That’s it. Clues are sent every two weeks over several weeks beginning in March. 

This year I discovered the bags at The Christmas Goose booth at the 2025 Cedar Chest Quilters Guild Annual Retreat in Cedar City, Utah! I was so excited about the mystery quilt and explained to my friends how it worked. The next day they all bought a bag!!! Must warn this shop we will be looking for bags at the next retreat in February 2026!!

I chose a strip of fall colors on a black background that looked like a batik. To my surprise, this quilt has a black background, something I have never done before. It is very colorful with orange, teal, and deep wine. Fabrics are “I Dream in Color” by Jason Yenter, “Shadow Blush for Quilters,” and Basic Grey Grunge by Moda in dark charcoal. I decided not to add a border on this one.




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