Final Clue - BIG Reveal of January 2022 Sweet Freedom Mystery

And now we get to add our beautiful Stars we created in Clue #1, but first - a couple more RED/White 1" borders...IF you Please?  Or did YOU decide to go with 2" FINISHED borders to increase the size of your quilt?  

NO matter - you may add them now, IF you wish OR, you may choose to leave them off...Quilter's Choice!

Here's our January 2022 Sweet Freedom Mystery Big Reveal:

January 2022 Sweet Freedom Mystery!

Do you see our Beautiful Patriotic Stars?  Notice - there are thirteen (13) in the upper Top/Left corner AND thirteen (13) in the Lower/Right corner - representing our original Thirteen (13) Colonies!

You will need to decide 'how' you want your patriotic stars to appear in your quilt.  I spent a little time arranging/rearranging mine until I got the look I was going for.  Then, I sewed them together - starting, once again w/Stars on each side, adding enough of my 6 1/2" in-the-raw neutral fabric to create a side border that fit my left side, then my right side.  Once pressed to the 'outside', then I sewed my top Stars together, added enough 6 1/2" neutral fabric to the Top and then the Bottom Star units to create borders that fit, as we've done previously in Clue #2

My first Sweet Freedom Mystery FINISHED at 55" x 70" prior to quilting/binding/laundering/labelling. 

Next, I auditioned my Dark Blue fabric for an outside 'perimeter' border:

Auditioning Dark Blue border fabric - Yes!  I like!!

The final decision was made to add this Dark Blue border fabric to my second Sweet Freedom Mystery quilt ;-)

January 2022 Sweet Freedom Mystery w/outside Perimeter Border

This version of our January 2022 Sweet Freedom Mystery w/outside Dark Blue 3" perimeter borders FINISHED at 61" x 76", prior to quilting/binding/laundering/labelling.

Hope you enjoyed our January 2022 Sweet Freedom Mystery - we will be releasing more info on our February 2022 Sweet Freedom Mystery by February 1, 2022...See You All Then!

Time to quilt!

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