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Old 01-01-2014, 04:07 PM
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Great Krista! I'm way behind the 8 ball since I didn't do the preliminary work. But I'm plugging along.
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Old 01-01-2014, 06:32 PM
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Done! True to my plan, the Jan 1 quilt is done on Jan 1. Maybe this bodes well for quilting (and finishing) this year.

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Old 01-01-2014, 06:40 PM
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Wow, I'm impressed. I've worked on and off all day and still have a long ways to go. I really like your two colour scheme. I like this pattern, but if I do it again, will use a common light for the anvil blocks to help reduce the scattery (is that a word) effect. I have a lot way to go, but this is what is finished at present. My goal is to have it completely done by Friday.
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Old 01-01-2014, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Belfrybat View Post
Wow, I'm impressed. I've worked on and off all day and still have a long ways to go. I really like your two colour scheme. I like this pattern, but if I do it again, will use a common light for the anvil blocks to help reduce the scattery (is that a word) effect. I have a lot way to go, but this is what is finished at present. My goal is to have it completely done by Friday.
Looking good! I can get a bit "hyper-focused" when working on a quilt. I pretty much did nothing else today
If I do one again, I would use more colours. But like you said, a common light - just to pull it all together a bit.
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Old 01-03-2014, 01:04 AM
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Here are all the links, in case anyone is missing them: (Scroll all the way to the bottom).

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Old 01-03-2014, 03:22 PM
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Here is my Merry Mayhem top. I'm still deciding on a border--which I think it desperately needs.
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Old 01-03-2014, 04:41 PM
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Gramma, I love your colour scheme. Mine turned out so scrappy - ugly - I'm thinking about re-doing about 1/4th the blocks to help it coordinate better. The brights I used were too bright against the more subdued ones. I love mysteries, but sometimes my colour choices just don't work well.
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Old 01-04-2014, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Belfrybat View Post
Gramma, I love your colour scheme. Mine turned out so scrappy - ugly .....The brights I used were too bright against the more subdued ones. I love mysteries, but sometimes my colour choices just don't work well.
Thank you. And your experience is what I don't like about mystery quilts. I usually find I would have preferred a different color arrangement. But I like the mystery aspect so I go into it with the idea that my mystery quilt will be a charity quilt unless it is stunning. Now to figure out what to do with the above quilt because I used up scraps and I have nothing for the border. Oh well, guess I'll have to go shopping!
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Old 01-04-2014, 08:24 AM
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Also...I'm hoping more quilters will post their Merry Mayhem mystery results!
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Old 01-04-2014, 01:53 PM
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Here's mine:



I had had all sorts of problems. Misunderstood the directions and ended with half the anvil blocks needed, so spent the next day basically doing the whole process again. My accuracy was awful and ended up with nary a point remaining on those HST's, and some of my lights weren't really light enough, as I suspected, but hey, it'll make a nice warm scrappy for someone. Now I'm debating whether to put on borders or not.

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