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01-26-2011, 10:59 AM

#91

Lukayna

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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.

This Clemson University grad/fan could make good use of orange too ;)

01-26-2011, 01:43 PM

#92

Alondra

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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.

01-26-2011, 03:30 PM

#93

auntdeb

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Ditto

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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

01-26-2011, 05:52 PM

#94

Tennessee Suzi

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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.

I have a great suggestion....put white with it and make a Tennessee Volunteer quilt. All my guys would love that, they went to UT!

01-26-2011, 07:01 PM

#95

wildyard

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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

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01-26-2011, 09:03 PM

#96

quiltjoey

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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:

I kinda simple minded when it comes to jokes and usually someone has to tell me what it means but this one made me lol and my DGS loves Knock, Knock jokes!!

01-26-2011, 09:58 PM

#97

Kas

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Originally Posted by MomtoBostonTerriers

I was going to say that one of us National Champions Auburn fans would love them if they are the right color orange. War Eagle! Hee! Hee! Chicago Bears are also navy and orange. The Gators are more of a royal blue, I think. Do you have any friends who are fans? You could add the other color strips to make a nice random pattern.

01-26-2011, 09:59 PM

#98

Kas

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Quote:

Originally Posted by quiltjoey

Quote:

Originally Posted by champagnebubbles

I kinda simple minded when it comes to jokes and usually someone has to tell me what it means but this one made me lol and my DGS loves Knock, Knock jokes!!

I drive my kids crazy with this one! I love it!

01-28-2011, 12:51 AM

#99

katigirl

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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. :)

01-28-2011, 01:21 AM

#100

ArtisticDesign

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Quote:

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!

Actually blue is the compliment of orange(directly across from each other on the color wheel) which means they make each other pop.
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