Old Town--Bonnie Hunter's 2024 Mystery

Bonnie's paint chips of the colors

Bonnie Hunter released her introductory clue to her 2024 Mystery which she has named Old Town. I like that she shares paint chips of the colors which helps me in choosing fabrics for the mystery.

While I like the colors, I don't have salmon fabrics. I considered purchasing some fabric. Then, I looked at the boxes of bits in my stash and said to myself. . .'Get a grip. . .use what you have!" 

I barely had enough of the aqua fabric. The red was easy to gather. Then I "got" to decide what color I was substituting for the salmon. 

My fabric pull minus the neutrals

I looked again at Bonnie's inspiration photos and noticed that there was evidence of green, purple and yellow. I didn't have enough purple in my stash and the value I have might be too close to the red. I have a ton of green scraps; but, that color combination didn't excite me. 

Then, I pulled my yellow scraps. I've been picking up a fat quarter here and there as well as picking up bits from the free table. I liked the way the yellow would interact with the red and the aqua. So yellow it was! I've lots of neutrals and most are already prepped. 

Some of my background fabrics

Last weekend, my oldest granddaughter helped me prewash the yellow fabric. She was amazed to find one of the yellow fabrics bled orange! I was so thankful for her help!

I had already prewashed the red. I had one fabric I the aqua that needed to be prewashed, All have been prewashed, dried, sized with Faultless fabric sizing. The Stayflo liquid starch that I used in the past is no longer produced. Faultless merged or bought out Niagara so sometimes both names are listed on the label. I've raided my "precuts" for strips that work with my fabric pull. I'm ready for clue number one!

My precuts that might work into the pattern

Gathering and prepping the mystery fabrics was goal number eight on my November list. Linking to Alycia at Finished or Not Friday; Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts and Cynthia at Oh Scrap.