Orange Snowball finish!

It is easier to build a 30 story building than to talk to the insurance company.  I spent a good bit of time getting disconnected, redialing back into the system. Speaking clearly, the system must not understand Southern Louisiana Cajun.  I said "dental" and they said "substance abuse".  I said "January 17th 1954" and they said "June 21, 1915".  It was wild. 

When I finally did get where I wanted to be after the third time dialing back to the system, the Associate who answered the line (after being told I was a valued customer about 15 times) said she hates to dial in herself.  Which tells me they really don't know a lot anyway if they have to dial back in the system for their questions.

I did finish the Orange Snowball Mystery Quilt slightly before noon.  Which should be renamed Orange Sherbert With Sprinkles, I guess.   Well, not FINISH finish, they both are finished to the top stage.  I can quilt later.  And I have also placed the blue one next to it so you can see how different they really are.  It is really striking how different the same pattern looks with different fabrics.  The dark of the blue quilt actually comes forward while the "dark" orange of the other one recedes.  The orange quilt kinda blends together in its brightness.  I like both of them, but I like the blue more.

And if you look closely, you will see the same Patch No Work Quilt under both the blue and the orange.  I will finish it one day!  Really!

The Snowball Mystery Quilts will all be revealed at the River City Guild meeting this Thursday.  AND....there will be ribbons!

I will then hand out the beginnings of the 2011 Mystery I will call Lighthouse on the Bay. It will run for a year and culminate again in January 2012.  I better make the next mystery end by December 22, 2012 since that will be the end of the world anyway.

glen

Ok, I need help making this decision

I thought the orange would work, because it really brings out the orange in the quilt center.  It brought the small star background immediately to my eye, when they had been "absorbed" by the movement in the quilt background with no border at all.

Then I thought the blue would work because it actually tamed the movement in the border by focusing on the blue in the quilt.  It gave the blue a reason for being in the quilt center.

Honestly, when I pulled the fabric from my stash I did not think it would be this blazingly bright.  It iw a bit unsettling for me, who deals mostly in darker, more subdued fabrics.  My usual brights are those of the primary color wheel! 

 These are off the chart!

So which one do you like best? 

Frank, who actually has some eye for placement and color, really likes the orange. 

glen

The UFO Challenge at Patchwork Place and Design wall 1-3-11

Judy asked us to list our UFOs we wanted to work on # 1 through 12.  I put 2 in each month because I have sooooooo many I wanted to get a number of them done this year.

She chooses a number at the first of every month, this January 1st she chose # 6.  In my list that was the Orange Snowball Mystery and the Outhouse Blocks.  Both perfect choices because the Mystery is due next Thursday and the Outhouse blocks will be perfect for a wild and modern quilt in the Inspiration Challenge.  (I may get nothing done this year but challenges, but hey.....)

I spent a few hours this afternoon and tonight working on my Orange Snowball Mystery and got the center put together.   I put the blue one on the design wall and laid the orange blocks over the blue blocks to make placement and turning easier.  It was a challenge to get it all laid out correctly when I did the blue one.

Tomorrow I should have some time to work on the snowballs on the outside edge.  They are all put together, they just need to be sewn in strips and attached to the inner border that needs to be put on.  Aside from nothing being equal in size and no block being the correct size, it went together fairly quickly this afternoon.  I had most of the work done on the pieces from the months of keeping up with the mystery.  The blue snowball mystery will have to go to the quilt meeting with no backing or quilting. 

Inner border will be the orange and the snowballs will be the light with the fossil fern surrounding them.  It will be bright!

glen