Valentines 2026 Mystery Quilt Along
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, please 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 and save them. I will be removing the mystery
after February 14th, 2026. It will then be place in my Etsy shop and
you will need to purchase the pattern
after that. Until then, it’s free for you to enjoy.
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.
Clue #1: 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, for bigger sizes you may want to make extra
hearts, your choice.
Heart
#1 is the easiest heart to make.
Cut the following from your Pink or Red heart
fabric:
One 2.75” square
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
On each of your four background
squares, draw a diagonal line.
Place your squares as shown in this photo and stitch just a needles width to the outside of the line you have drawn. Trim off the excess fabric ¼” from your seam line as shown below. Press toward the dark fabric.
Lay out your block as shown below and
stitch together like it is a four patch. Refer to the video for step-by-step
instructions. We will talk about how to square up your block in video #2. You can press your seams as instructed or
press them open. I personally find that if you press as I have instructed you
will have a better outcome, but it is up to you. TIP: when nesting your seams,
place your pin in the fabric next to the seam rather than right in it. Pinning
in the seam can distort your fabric and cause your seam not to nest properly.
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