Hmmm....I wonder....maybe we can find a FQ bundle of just oranges..we should try ebay too...I'll do that in a few minutes.

I did find a FQ bundle on Connectingthreads .... Oh oh oh LOL I just went over there to get the link for them and noticed they had an orange section, so I was checking it out and guess what! They sell all their individuals fabrics in FQ size!! And their FQs are only $1.50!! Woohoo! LOL I love that place more and more every time I go. They don't have a ton of options that will work, but hey it's a start. I will bookmark the site for when I am ready to start buying again. But please share whatever else you find, I will need as many otpions as I can get!! LOL

Hey Rachel...here are a few I found.
http://cgi.ebay.com/40-Juicy-Orange-...item1c13479cdd

http://cgi.ebay.com/ORANGE-ORBIT-36-...item5193774d32

And FQ bundles
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fat-Quarters-Bun...item255b12f9e6

These don't look too bad either
http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-ORANGE-AND-W...item35aa2356a1

http://cgi.ebay.com/lot-8-Fat-Quarte...item20afceca91

Well, you get the idea...there are quite a few on there fairly inexpensive. Good luck!

Ooooh nice finds Pat!! The last one is the perfect coloring!! I also really like the colors in the first one, but I think 4x4 squares may be too small :( Yay!! Looks like I will be able to find all that I need if I poke around enough. :) :)

Cheers!
Rachel

The 4" squares might be too small unless there are some dups in the package. If there are..then they would work too. There are some blocks that take very little to make...you'll see. Oh...and I thought that maybe you could contact the seller and see if they could cut into FQ's for you....they might.....

But, there did look like there were some good ones in there..I think there were about 4 pages this morning when I searched for "Orange Fat Quarter bundles".

Oh that's true, they probably would be good if there were dupes. Hmmmm maybe I'll just message the seller and see, if anything I could maybe buy the same set twice if they have it! :)

Rachel

Anyone ready for week 25 yet?

Not quite,I need to do some of the hand appy on wk.24 Then I am good to go. With my son to Dallas,Tx for his first bout of chemo and I had an appt in Tyler Tx with my oncologist,got held up. Both reports good. Son home for several weeks and Now at the 5 th year of every 6 mos. I have now graduated to only one time a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I have finished week 25, but not week 24, (did the easy ones first) so I am sure someone else is ready for week 25.

Elle

Please go ahead and post week 25 Lesley...I'll add mine to it after and Elle can too. I'll add it to the virtual section.

Here are the M-11 blocks I made last night :) This wasn't too hard, but I learned a lot about lining up diamond corners. LOL

Rachel

Very nice Rachel, both blocks, but I like the orange the most

Thanks!! I agree, the blue and orange is so striking I think. plus the block turned out better. LOL you can see in the lower left of the blue and white where I completely chopped of the point of the diamond. But since that one is my 'test' quilt, I am not going to unsew and fix those ones too much unless the error is really glaring. I will unsew as necessary on the blue and orange though as I want that one to be really nice. :)

Rachel

Rachel you are very brave to do two, there are quite a few doing two and I take my hat off to you all.

Elle

Oh gosh...how hard did you have to fiddle with that orange to get those little stars in the center of the center row of diamonds Rachel??? :shock: Those look great and I'm with Elle....my hat if off and I'm bowing down to all of you doing 2 Janes at once....you are either very brave or...well... :lol: :roll:

I'm ready Lace.

Thanks Pat! It actually wasn't too too hard to get the stars centered like that. With the way I paper piece, it's actually pretty simple to fussy cut and center because your paper is folded back. If you have never seen this before, it's actually the same method the girl that makes the 'That Quilt' blog uses:

http://www.twiddletails.com/store/in...age=page&id=21

I adore pping this way because I never ever get an angle wrong, and I have very little fabric waste because I do not have to cut my pieces too big. This is because the next piece you are sewing is actually folded back, so you can easily line everything up, whereas with regular pp, you kind of put the pieces of fabric down with a wing and a prayer and hope you have the angle and centering right. LOL Maybe I'll make up my own tute one of these days too. But if you have never tried it, you should give it a shot for one of your blocks. Oh if you give it a try, I don't bother pre-scoring the lines and I have never had trouble with folding back, saves a lot of time that way.

And as far as doing two at once, I certainly am not brave, so I must be the other thing .... hehehe :lol: :lol:

Cheers!
Rachel

I fold my paper back when pp'ing too Rachel...I agree with you about the lack of waste and lining things up better. It usually works everytime for me...if I'm paying attention :roll:

Thanks for the link though!

A newspaper would have worked perfectly, but alas, I don't have any due to being allergic to the news print. :roll: Actually, I think I've spanked my dog maybe three times in the past 5 years. He's a wonderful dog, except for that whole eating my snotty tissues thing, which he hasn't done since. Yay!

My wrist is much better. I should have sued the doctor but at the time I was with my ex and he didn't believe in it. My hubby now (much smarter man!) was unhappy that so much time had gone by and basically we couldn't do anything about it.

Now that's just plain mean! :lol: I think I'm still back at week 8. :|

Jolo, that is wonderful news for both you and your son. I hope he continues to do well and the next round of chemo goes as smoothly. :thumbup:

So glad to hear your wrist is more comfortable, haven't ever heard of anyone with an allergy to newsprint before, I suppose its better than an allergy to chocolate! If your dog has finally got the message about the tissues, perhaps it was worth the discomfort.

Don't worry about being at week 8, just keep going at these little blocks as often as you can. They don't do themselves, but its very rewarding when you get a handful done. Rome wasn't built in a day, after all.

Has anyone seen anything from Esq recently? I haven't and I just hope she is OK.

I have been wondering about Esq as well, but I know she has children so it could be she is just busy with holidays and stuff.

Elle

With school out for the summer this could be the case. I always expect things to slow down and instead I find myself running around wondering how in the world my life became so darn busy! :roll: And my kids are all grown now. :lol:

Often think this myself, how on earth did I manage to ever find time to go to work

:-D

Tiff, don't worry about what week # you are on...just keep plugging when you can. Lesley's is good advice about that!

Just to let ya'll know...Esqmommy is just fine....she has quite a lot of "real" life happening right now with the kids getting out of school for the summer and all. I spoke with her on the phone the other day. Hopefully things will slow down a little bit soon and she will be able to spend time playing with us on the board again.

My problem is that I'm not really sticking to the week #. I printed out a bunch of the past weeks, (you know, the ones I needed to catch up on) and I've been picking and choosing from the entire pile. If I'm in the mood to applique I do those. If I just want simple piecing I do those. I'm a mess as to where I really am. I have about 25 blocks done, so I guess that puts me back around Week 6. :lol: I'm not giving up, just going slowly. And hopefully in October I'll be able to catch up on a lot of them. I've got a five day quilt retreat I'm going to and the only thing I'm taking to work on is my Confetti Jane.

Hey I'm with ya!! I only have 1 block done on one and 3 on the other LOL But I have to pick and choose because I don't have the fabric I need for all the blocks yet. :) :) I figure one of these will make a great wedding present for my son (he's 7), so as long as I am finished by then I am good to go. LOL

Rachel

That is a really lovely name you have chosen for your DJ I like Confetti Jane, really pretty.

Elle

So glad that Esq is OK and nothing untoward has befallen her!

I finished my Jane quilt top tonight! Yeah!!! If I can get a temporary sleeve on it tomorrow, I'll take a pic of it for you all. I still have to put the backing on, of course, so it isn't finished yet, but I'm not that far off now. Just needed to tell someone. Now I'm off to bed, its 12.50am. Night night all.

Hey since my Jane is very scrappy how does Mixed up Jane sound for a name. I have been having a hard time thinking of a name to call her.

I like that name!! I also thought of Bits and Pieces Jane or maybe Scrap Happy Jane ... :) I still have to think of more original names for mine too.

Rachel

Lesley..I already posted on your PDA...I'll just say again...I can't wait to see your baby!!

jolo....what about Confused Jane..did somebody already use Confetti Jane??...now I'll think about it some more.

How about Falling Rainbow Jane, I´m in Bits Jane, Memories Jane - coz each scrap came from a special quilt that you made.

Elle

Gosh I like them all gals. I will look at my blocks and the list and let you know which one I chose soon.

Thank you! I started it back in the new year and it's scrappy so Confetti Jane works great. And, if it turns into a UFO I can always call it Confetti Jane Goes Bust. :lol:

:-D :-D :-D

Yes Tiff...it was you!!! I thought that someone was using "Confetti Jane"...I thought that was such a cool name!

I think I will go with Confused Jane,she still is very mixed up lol

Well, here it is - just the top, mind, it doesn't have its backing on yet, nor the binding.

It's still a bit breezy here today, so I couldn't get a pic of it hanging straight, but I did my best.

Plus it only has a temporary hanging sleeve pinned onto it, which is making it look frilly at the top.

I've added a couple of other pics, one so you should be able to see that my plain tris are bigger because I used a wider sashing (they don't go down to a point as they would with the narrower sashing) The other one is so that you can see the scallops - I've quilted them at the base where they join on to the tris, but the rest of the quilting will be done when I add the backing. I have just basted the edges to keep them together.

Lesley... All I have to say is WOW!!!

and thats a double WOW WOW from me

Simply beautiful.

Elle