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I hope you are excited today, as we get to the last step and the big reveal you’ve waited six months to see!! For those just now finding this mystery quilt along, click on Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 1 for the overview with fabric requirements and cutting instructions, and then on Quadrille Step 2 for the first sewing step. The third month’s clue can be found at Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 3. April’s clue is at Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 4. May’s clue is at Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 5.

Today you’ll use up most ...

It is month five of the Scrap Dance mystery quilt along for 2023, and I hope you are having fun with this! For those just now finding this mystery quilt along, click on Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 1 for the overview with fabric requirements and cutting instructions, and then on Quadrille Step 2 for the first sewing step. The third month’s clue can be found at Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 3. April’s clue is at Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 4. Today is going to be fun, as we will have a partial reveal after our unit sewing.

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It is month four of the Scrap Dance mystery quilt along for 2023, and I hope you are having fun with this! For those just now finding this mystery quilt along, click on Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 1 for the overview with fabric requirements and cutting instructions, and then on Quadrille Step 2 for the first sewing step. The third month’s clue can be found at Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 3. Today we get a little farther along.

In making the pdf for this step, I have realized that I may have had you cut too much for the ...

Did you get all your half square triangles done? Ready for the next step? For those just now finding this mystery quilt along, click on Scrap Dance Quadrille Step 1 for the overview with fabric requirements and cutting instructions, and then on Quadrille Step 2 for the first sewing step. Today, we begin making units.

This month we start on the units that will eventually make up the blocks. For this step, you’ll pull the required number of units from your cutting step and the half square triangles you made last month.

Click on this link to get the ...

Did you get all your Step 1 Cutting done? If you are just now finding this mystery, click on Quadrille Step 1 Cutting to see the first post and download the cutting instructions. This month we get down to some serious sewing and chain piecing. I have split the steps out so you should be able to do the mystery around your other projects. Those of you who have done my mysteries before will know what is coming today, LOL!!

First, get out all those partial bobbins and line them up on your thread pin. Using these up is easy ...

It has been such fun to see your Pachanga finishes on our Facebook group! So many ideas, background colors, beautiful and fun combinations with my pattern. I just love that! So today, I’ll show you how I finished mine.

When I was cutting my fabrics, I took all I had leftover and cut bricks at 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. These were used as leader-enders for sewing the blocks.

Over the course of constructing the quilt, I easily assembled borders at the same time.

I needed to decide how to do the corners. I auditioned extending the bricks ...

Moving up the finish to today, we’ll construct block B and then I’ll show you the finished design. First, though, I got the numbering of the steps messed up, and I have now corrected it. Somehow I had two steps labeled as 7. The actual step 7 is making HSTs for block B, and step 8 is the Block A reveal. So if you don’t have eight steps before today, click on the category on the sidebar to catch any you may have missed.

Construct square in a square units from all the 3-1/2-inch HSTs (the ...

We are getting near the end of the mystery, and today you get a big step forward!

But first, it is cold here again, so time to break out a couple of wonderful slow cooker meals so we can sew the day away! If you haven’t tried my Bourbon Chicken, I made it yesterday, yum!!!

Or maybe my Slow Cooker Roasted Garlic Beef Tips would hit the spot.

Now getting to the sewing room, you get to see how some of the elements go together, the Block A reveal!

Gather your elements for this block, beginning with the two-patch ...

Ready for Step 2? Today we start sewing, and I’ve put the most time consuming step first.

Using the large 7-1/2-inch background squares, and the indicated amount of 4-inch scraps in the pdf download linked below, make flying geese using the no-waste method. Note you will NOT use all your 4-inch squares. Some of them will be used later. When I have a boring task like this to do, I like to use my lap desk and mark the squares while I watch TV to sew later. If you need the full tutorial on how to sew these ...

The Mystery Quilt Along begins today! Designing this mystery in EQ8, once I determined the final design, I began doing different colorations in the program to see which palette I wanted to work with. When I tried the vibrant brights, the pattern named itself, and I knew I had my project for this year. Pachanga is a vibrant, salsa dance with movement forward and back, left and right, energetic and lively, combining jazz and rock.

See what I mean with this video. Just click on the photo to start it.

The music and dance bring to mind the vibrant clothing ...

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Now that the Twist is assembled, I have a pieced border option to complete the chain.  I’ll show you that option, along with a plain border and some pieced scrappy ideas, so you can choose what you’d like to do.

The pieced border will be 2/3 of the chain block, alternating with a plain background unit.  Details and numbers of squares are given in the download.  First, gather more scraps and background, make some four patches, and assemble this unit.

Then, alternate this unit with the plain background unit.  Place the pieced unit next to the footprint ...

The day you have been anticipating is here!  Today I’ll show you the final design and reveal The Twist!

With the remaining background and scrappy 4-1/2-inch squares, and the HSTs you made in a previous step, make this block.  I am calling it a footprint block.

Here’s mine.

Press to the outside for the center row, and to the inside for the top and bottom rows.  Press the row seams to the outside.

Now for the Twist!  Gather all your blocks, and lay out the first row with all your Block B footprint blocks pointing in the ...

Time for the next clue in our Scrap Dance Twist Mystery Quilt Along!  We are getting close now, and will take a big step forward today.  Then, in two weeks, I’ll do the reveal.  After that, I’ll give you border options, and then quilting and finishing.

Using the 4-1/2-inch scrappy squares, and the 4-1/2-inch background squares, make this unit.  You’ll need the number shown in the table in the download.  Don’t do more than you need, the rest of the squares of those sizes will have another purpose.

Then using that unit, make Block ...

Are you caught up with the Scrap Dance Twist steps?  Today we get to the next one and it is the one you’ve probably been waiting for, or should I say dreading, LOL!!

This month, we get to those inevitable HSTs.  Pull the remaining 5-inch background and scrappy squares from your cutting stack.  On the backside of your 5-inch background squares, mark two straight lines, 1/4 inches from a center line from corner to corner.

Pair the background square right sides together with a scrappy square and chain sew on the lines, or just on the inside edge ...