I decided that I would do the Bonnie Hunter Winter Mystery this Year. I wanted to last year and farted around and never did. And I loved it! So this year I am doing it.
She gave out the fabric amounts and colors this week so I went to Lowe's this afternoon and got the paint chips she is using. I really like the colors. Very bright and potentially modern.
Saturday night I gathered what I had in hopes it would be a "no buying" quilt. And I think it mostly will be so. I may need a few more pieces of turquoise but I think I have the other colors covered.
They are based upon her visit to the Grand Hotel in the Carolinas.
The yellow, which looks like orange here, is a single fabric that is the one that ties things together.
The ones I do not show are the very little white on black and the neutrals. I have tons of both of those.
Greens without a yellow cast and the turquoise is also without a yellow cast. It was genius to give us the paint chip numbers. I found it very useful to pull fabrics that were the right tones.
For the Stash Report, still using but not much this week.
I was finishing up the Dr. Seuss quilts and not working on anything more this week.
Used this week | -3 | Used this month | -4.83 | used this year | -113.33 | |||||||
bought this week | 0 | bought this month | 0 | bought this year | 180.75 | |||||||
plus or minus | -3 | plus or minus | -4.83 | plus or minus | 67.42 |
I have been thinking about it, too ... the colors are similar to something I've been thinking about for a while if I swap one of them ... and I may do that and make a small version of Bonnie's quilt. I always follow along, but haven't ever made the quilt. I think this might be the year I do.
ReplyDeleteI am on the fence with this mystery - I do NOT have the time to work on it (I know . . .) but I grew up in Michigan and visited Mackinac Island every summer with my family and have SEEN the Grand Hotel . . . so the emotional tug is strong (plus I like the colors). I plan to pick up the paint chip cards next time I go by Lowe's . .. time will tell.
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