Valentines 2026 Mystery Quilt Along
Clue 3
Designed by Karen
Meyer, Sister of The Divide, All Rights Reserved 12/30/2025
Welcome! This Mystery Quilt and
the accompanying video tutorials are designed for a Beginning Quilter. There
are several options along the way. To start you will need to gather your scraps
of fabric in pinks or reds for your hearts and low volume or white for your
background. That said, colors are not in stone, so if you feel like coloring
outside the crayon box, by all means,
feel free to do so.
I will offer tips along the way, which
have worked for me over the years. There are always multiple ways to achieve
the same results. Do not feel like what I am teaching you is dogma and that the
Quilt Police will be after you if you don’t do it “my” way. Just have fun,
relax, you will have a beautiful quilt.
Now, if you are like me, and you
have been around the “mystery” block (all puns intended), and you want to wait
and see how it all comes together, that is perfectly fine also. Download the
PDF pattern files as the clues come out and save them. I will be removing the
mystery after February 14th, 2026. It will then be placed in my Etsy
shop and you will need to purchase the
pattern after that. Until then, it’s free for you to enjoy.
VIDEO TUTORIAL FOR CLUE 3 HERE
Okay, let’s get started!
You will need, your sewing
machine, rotary cutter, mat, iron, thread, starch, a 12” x 6” ruler, a 6”
square up ruler, scissors, a marking pencil or air erase pen.
ALL SEAMS ARE ¼”
Clue #3: There are 3
hearts. This will be the most challenging part of this QAL. If you are making
the quilt, you will need to make 17 hearts in total. You can make all your hearts the same or you
can mix them up. If you just want to make a few hearts and see where it goes,
that’s fine too. You can always make a baby quilt or a table runner. We will be
making a large throw size quilt 60” X 65”. For bigger sizes you may want to
make extra hearts.
Heart #3 A tiny Nine Patch completes this heart.
Cut the following from your Pink or Red heart
fabric:
Two rectangles measuring 2” x 2.75”
Cut the following from your background fabric:
One 2” x 2” square
Four 1.25” x 1.25” squares
Three 6” x 1.25” strips
Follow the instructions on Clue #1 to create the outside heart pieces.
To create the little nine patch
you will first make two strip sets.
One will have two background strips
and one heart strip
The other strip set will have two
heart strips and one background
Stitch together your strip sets
as shown below and press to the dark
fabric.
Now cutting across the strip
sets, for each nine patch you will cut, strips across the strip set that measure
1.25” wide as shown below. Match up your seams and stitch your nine patch
together. Your 9 patch should measure 2.75" square.
Place the outside pieces to your
heart in place to make the “4” patch as shown below and stitch together. Square
up your block as shown in Clue 2 Video.
Refer to the Videos for step by
step instructions.
