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Originally Posted by MomtoBostonTerriers
Hey wildyard,
May I suggest our family adopt you? We have a ton of University of Florida (orange! blue!) relatives. Alternately, Auburn University fans (orange! blue!) would love those orange strips for scrappy quilts, but I can't in good conscience recommend that to anyone. |
You could sandwich the orange strips between black and white strips, cut triangles and play with putting them together again in various formats. It would make a cute pieced backing for a Halloween quilt.
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Ditto
Originally Posted by Jan in VA
Orange is great with magenta and aqua.
Also with yellows and peach. Use it with blues. Try orange, rose, soft purple, with touches of aqua on a pale yellow background. Use some of the strips as narrow borders/flanges in other quilts. Are the wide enough for bindings? Wow, I think you have a treasure! Jan in VA |
Originally Posted by wildyard
What does one do with tons of orange strips left over from a quilt? LOL I must have cut enough strips to make at least 3 more quilts because I still have a bagfull of them. I just kept collecting orange fabrics and cutting them into strips till I had a bag of them, figuring I'd need a lot for a big quilt. I barely made a dent it seems. And orange is not a color I will be using as a rule.
A little maybe for scrappys, but not a whole bagful... Any suggestions of what I could put with orange to make it less.... orange? and not look like the 70's. lol. |
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i thought you all might like to see the quilt made with the orange strips. Here is the finished product.
closeup of borders [ATTACH=CONFIG]168768[/ATTACH] |
Originally Posted by champagnebubbles
Knock, knock
Who's there? banana banana who? Knock, knock Who's there? banana banana who? Who's there? banana banana who? Knock, knock Who's there? Orange Orange Who? Orange you glad I didn't say banana? Sorry I had too :0 :roll: |
Originally Posted by MomtoBostonTerriers
Hey wildyard,
May I suggest our family adopt you? We have a ton of University of Florida (orange! blue!) relatives. Alternately, Auburn University fans (orange! blue!) would love those orange strips for scrappy quilts, but I can't in good conscience recommend that to anyone. Roll Tide! (crimson and white) |
Originally Posted by quiltjoey
Originally Posted by champagnebubbles
Knock, knock
Who's there? banana banana who? Knock, knock Who's there? banana banana who? Who's there? banana banana who? Knock, knock Who's there? Orange Orange Who? Orange you glad I didn't say banana? Sorry I had too :0 :roll: |
Use them for scrapy quilting. I will tell you that no matter how many you do they never seem to go down in amount. Could be cause you need to stop buying. huh. :)
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Originally Posted by luckylindy333
I am making an orange, royal blue, yellow and off-white quilt right now. I am hoping the royal blue will kind of tone it down a little. I will post it when I get it into some semblance of order. I also cut way too many strips, so thanks everyone for the ideas with all the color combinations!
But I think because you added the yellow and off white, which are so close to orange on the wheel..I think that would make the blue sing the loudest lol..Depending on the amount of blue too...I think it'll be really pretty (smile) I like your orange quilt wildyard! And I came a little too late to the party...I was totally in love with those orange batik strips you had... I was looking over at my stash for possible trading before I got to the end of this thread lol And stitchinjoy, your Pineapple Blossomquilt is gorgeous |
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