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McCalls Quilting Jan/Feb 2012 / 3 month mystery quilt along

Old 01-14-2012, 07:50 AM
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I've already completed all my squares for the first clue and they look GREAT (I've never done triangles before). I'm making the larger quilt. Wish I knew how to post photos.
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Old 01-14-2012, 07:53 AM
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Going out today to find the magazine before I start shopping the stash. I thought I could find it at Walmart but no luck. So off to Joannes. Wish me luck.
I got mine at Joann's and I subscribed to the mag as well. I was looking for a mag to sub to because the others that I used to read were just all ads. I want quilting, not ads for other crap not related to quilting!
 
Old 01-14-2012, 07:58 AM
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Ok, I have ordered the magazine. Can someone give me the yardage and color value recommendations.? I am itching to go shopping in my stash while I await the arrival of the magazine.
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wasnt joann's cloth world 20 years ago? i dont remember joann's being around back in those days. i made clothing then and bought my fabrics from so-fro fabrics, cloth world and designer fabric warehouse. i had given so much fabric away once i stopped sewing and only kept the really expensive silks, wools and japanese cottons i had. many of the cotton fabrics today do dull in comparison to what fabrics were like 20 years ago.


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I had several yards of the on the left! LOL I used to buy strictly JoAnn's 20 years ago, it was good fabric then, but now, uggg, it looks and feels like 1st or 2nd runs, flaws, misprints. You have to check every yard and both sides. Switched to Hobby Lobby.. much better

I like your combo, rethinking mine. Thank Goodness we have lots of time on this one.
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Originally Posted by Caroline S View Post
Ok, I have ordered the magazine. Can someone give me the yardage and color value recommendations.? I am itching to go shopping in my stash while I await the arrival of the magazine.
i am with you on this, i want to know also.
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Old 01-14-2012, 12:18 PM
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Ok, I have ordered the magazine. Can someone give me the yardage and color value recommendations.? I am itching to go shopping in my stash while I await the arrival of the magazine.
When you get the magazine, it will have 4 sets of color combinations shown for the quilt on page 41. They were very helpful in guiding what is needed. You will need 4 fabrics and they are described as this: (and this is just a short paraphrase of the description they have listed in the mag)

Fabric A: This is your Focus Fabric. You will need 1 1/8 yds of a multi-color print that you love. It can be a large print or directional, light or dark.

Fabric B: You will need 3 1/8 yards! Non-directional tone on tone print that is a contrast to Fabric A

Fabric C: You will need 1 5/8 yds, non-directional, small or med scale opposite value of Fabric B ( so if B is dark, C should be light and vice versa)

Fabric D: You will need 5/8 yd, Anything goes here as long as it matches the others.

I hope that helps and gets you thinking before your new mag arrives.

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Old 01-14-2012, 12:25 PM
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Thanks Susan I will start shopping the stash ASAP.

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When you get the magazine, it will have 4 sets of color combinations shown for the quilt on page 41. They were very helpful in guiding what is needed. You will need 4 fabrics and they are described as this: (and this is just a short paraphrase of the description they have listed in the mag)

Fabric A: This is your Focus Fabric. You will need 1 1/8 yds of a multi-color print that you love. It can be a large print or directional, light or dark.

Fabric B: You will need 3 1/8 yards! Non-directional tone on tone print that is a contrast to Fabric A

Fabric C: You will need 1 5/8 yds, non-directional, small or med scale opposite value of Fabric B ( so if B is dark, C should be light and vice versa)

Fabric D: You will need 5/8 yd, Anything goes here as long as it matches the others.

I hope that helps and gets you thinking before your new mag arrives.
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Originally Posted by Havplenty View Post
wasnt joann's cloth world 20 years ago? i dont remember joann's being around back in those days. i made clothing then and bought my fabrics from so-fro fabrics, cloth world and designer fabric warehouse. i had given so much fabric away once i stopped sewing and only kept the really expensive silks, wools and japanese cottons i had. many of the cotton fabrics today do dull in comparison to what fabrics were like 20 years ago.
You know, your right! It was Cloth World and I loved those stores. I remember when they were going out of business, they had gone in and marked down everything to 70% off and I was walking down the isles and found a full bolt of dress weight wool that someone had put in the cottons section and the end was marked in red at $2.50/yd! It was a full bolt complete with the plastic wrap on it. I took it to the counter and told them that I wanted the full bolt (that is when they had bolts at 25 yards not the skimpy 8 yards they have now) and they told me the end was mis-marked. I pressed the issue, and they gave it to me for $2.50 a yard! I still have about 5 or 6 yards left. I use it to cover my ironing board and it works great! Oh I also made a couple of suits out of it too
 
Old 01-14-2012, 12:49 PM
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Okay, I finally made up my mind to do the mystery quilt. I'm using a combination of fabrics from my stash with one new one. I'm still not sure about the yellow as fabric D, so that one might change.

I had to finish a few odds and ends of projects before I could start, but I'm going to start cutting as soon as I post this.
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Originally Posted by rainbow quilter View Post
Okay, I finally made up my mind to do the mystery quilt. I'm using a combination of fabrics from my stash with one new one. I'm still not sure about the yellow as fabric D, so that one might change.

I had to finish a few odds and ends of projects before I could start, but I'm going to start cutting as soon as I post this.
Nice combination.. now I really should rethink mine! LOL
 
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