Valentines 2026 Mystery Quilt Along
Clue 2
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. PDF LINK FOR CLUE 2 CLICK HERE
VIDEO TUTORIAL FOR CLUE 2 CLICK 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 #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 60” X 65”. For bigger sizes you may want to
make extra hearts.
Heart #2 A little more challenging, Just Teasing.
Cut the following from your Pink or Red heart
fabric:
Two rectangles measuring 2” x
2.75”
One strip measuring 6” x 1.25”
One 1.25” square
Cut the following from your background
fabric:
One 2” x 2” square
Five 1.25” x 1.25” squares
One 4” x 1.25” strip
For this Clue and Clue #3 we will make the outside of the heart exactly the same. Refer to your directions on Clue #1. (click here for Clue #1) We will also finish the heart exactly the same. Watch the video and it will make perfect sense.
We are going to focus on creating the little "heart in a heart" area of our block.
Refer to the photos below. Take one heart fabric square 1.25” and one 1.25" background square and stitch them together. Press to the dark fabric. Add a strip of background. As you are facing your first piece, the background fabric strip will be attached to the bottom. Stitch and press to the dark fabric. Trim any excess.
Take the strip of your heart fabric and add it to the right side of your piece. Press to the dark fabric. Trim any excess.
Add a strip of your heart fabric to the bottom , Press to the dark fabric and Trim any excess.
You will finish the block the same exact way that we finished the Block in Clue #1
If you need fabric, you can visit our Etsy Shop we have some cute floral fat quarter bundles that are very well priced at $2.00/fat quarter. Sister of The Divide Etsy Shop
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