Not only are you doing a mystery quilt, but you're also solving a murder mystery! With each month you get both a chapter of the story and a new quilt block to make and the blocks have clues to the mystery in them.–Pigs in Pajamas
Sure, you thought transcribing the useful data from audio clues was tricky, but consider: "I'd probably go with my own color scheme normally, but since the blocks are part of the mystery solving I decided to pick colors relatively close to what was suggested."