Border Creek Station Mystery Quilt - Quilter's Celebration
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It's that time of year, time to begin Border Creek Station's mystery quilt. This years is a celebration year as this is the 10th mystery quilt.
If anyone else is interested in joining, please check out Border Creek Station's website ( http://www.bordercreekstation.com/mysteryquilt.html ). There is a list of stores across Canada and the U.S. that are participating, including our local quilt shop Bear's Paw Quilts in Whitehorse, YT! Our local shop meets once a month (second saturday) to discuss the quilt in progress and pick up our next clues. We just received our first clue this weekend, so the cutting begins! I had previously picked out the fabrics I wanted to use. However, after our first meeting, I realized that my line up was a bit too busy. I had a lot of feature fabrics. So I decided to shop a little more and move my line up around a bit and I came out with a much calmer quilt, still in the same colour scheme I wanted. Here are my fabrics...I'm sharing the first line up I made so you can see the difference. |
Thanks for the link. I LOVE mystery quilts!
Your fabrics are absolutely gorgeous. No matter what the end pattern, you're going to have one beautiful quilt. |
I really love the stripe fabric I found this weekend, it's so much fun!!!
QuiltE and Anael, I'd love to see your fabrics again, I look forward to working on this with you and any others who want to play! HouseDragon had seemed interested...what do you say, are you playing too? |
Originally Posted by b.zang
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Thanks for the link. I LOVE mystery quilts!
Your fabrics are absolutely gorgeous. No matter what the end pattern, you're going to have one beautiful quilt. |
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This was my last fabric selection but I might need more advice. Yours are all in the same color range and mine are not so that might be a problem. I'm still not sure about the purple fabric.
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I'm doing this one, too. Here are my fabrics. Sherri was at my local quilt store while I was shopping, and gave her blessing on the choices :) She did suggest my fabric 7 (green) might be too much, so I bought enough of #1 on her suggestion, to use for inner border if I decide it needs to be calmer.
I understand that 1,2,3 are all background colours. 6 is your "pop" of colour. 7 is an inner border My biggest issue with mysteries is picking colours - so I told the shop owner I'd only participate if she helped me pick. Here's hoping I like the end result - so far, the first piecing is feeling a little dull in my colour choices (but I did tell her I wanted fall colours). [ATTACH=CONFIG]376161[/ATTACH] |
I am looking forward to seeing how these gorgeous fabrics end up.
Please remember progress piccies. :) |
I just noticed - some are a month behind :( I got step number 2 last weekend but the original poster just received #1, so I will try to avoid posting any pics for fear of spoiling the mystery for others.
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Krista, I think your line up is great, very different from mine and we are both thinking "fall", I like your shot of blue, my shot will be the orange.
Anael, I'll take a peek at my hints regarding colour choices to see if your line up works. You did say though that something didn't feel right, I find when I feel that way that something does need to be changed, even if it's only one fabric or just changing the order of my lineup. I was feeling my original was a little busy..you'll notice in mine I picked a plainer fabric for my fabric one and moved what was my fabric 1 to become fabric 2...it made such a difference...and I made my 4 and 5 more similar. I wish we lived closer, we could go through your stash and have a little fun. |
Love the fabric! Have fun!!
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