This workshop began just before Xmas 2012 and has run over several weeks.  I designed and made up the small medallion-style quilt specifically for a Mystery Quilt Challenge for the Group.  Several members took up the challenge and were only told how much fabric was needed in light, medium and dark colour values.  The girls found it very difficult choosing fabrics to make something when they didn't know what it looked like, but I did of course, so was able to suggest fabrics from those they brought in to be auditioned.
I then set to, mentally de-constructing the quilt into segments so that as they were made up the mystery would be kept until the last possible moment.  At each class the girls were curious to know what the layout would be, but it wasn't until the fourth session that the design began to emerge.  I drew up cutting plans for the four fabrics, and the first class was spent cutting all the various components.  The next two sessions concentrated on making segments for the on-point border, and the checkerboard border, but as they were made up in segments no-one was able to work out that they were parts of borders or what the layout would be.
The fourth session revealed the inner medallion, and then in the fifth class the setting triangles were revealed and suddenly the girls began to see what was happening!  After more borders had been added the girls began to think of ideas for appliqué work to be added to the setting triangles and centre block.  Some have used Celtic-knot work as a design source, and others have taken ideas from the fabrics themselves and appliquéd  solid shapes

More photos will be added to this gallery as the work progresses.  Rachel