5" Color Theme Charm Swap - ORANGE
09-02-2017, 12:21 PM
#33
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- Apples And Oranges - Pink Floyd.
- Blue Burns Orange - Hawthorne Heights.
- Frozen Orange Juice - Peter Sarstedt.
- Orange Blossom Special - Charlie Daniels Band or Johnny Cash
- Orange Crush - R.E.M.
- The Power of Orange Knickers - Tori Amos
- I'm out of orange guesses now
- hugs
- dj
09-03-2017, 12:28 PM
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Mine are bagged and addressed for mailing- with stamps included. There are no Halloween fabrics, mostly batiks. They are so pretty, I was glad to have at least one of each for myself.
And, Red, I wanted to tell you how helpful this swap has been for me. First, you picked the perfect number (10 baggies), because from a fat quarter I get 12 - 5" squares. (That is 1 each for 10 friends and 2 for me). Then I get a 3" strip left over that I can cut into some 2.5" squares and put them in my 2.5" charm box for swaps or usage. Plus put some of the 3"strip in storage for my strip/string collection. This still works if there is shrinkage after washing the fat qtr. After pulling all my orange fat qtrs out to pick and sort for these swaps, I am now putting all the leftover oranges back together in my fat qtr storage area.....so slowly, my stash is slowly getting organized. Thanks, again...Jane
And, Red, I wanted to tell you how helpful this swap has been for me. First, you picked the perfect number (10 baggies), because from a fat quarter I get 12 - 5" squares. (That is 1 each for 10 friends and 2 for me). Then I get a 3" strip left over that I can cut into some 2.5" squares and put them in my 2.5" charm box for swaps or usage. Plus put some of the 3"strip in storage for my strip/string collection. This still works if there is shrinkage after washing the fat qtr. After pulling all my orange fat qtrs out to pick and sort for these swaps, I am now putting all the leftover oranges back together in my fat qtr storage area.....so slowly, my stash is slowly getting organized. Thanks, again...Jane
09-03-2017, 03:13 PM
#39
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Location: central TX
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Jane, sounds like you & I organize the same way! Cut for 10 5"squares, split the leftover strip for 1.5" & 2.5" squares for future swaps & save a string for a string quilt project!
Shopped today for 5 new orange FQs to balance out what I send in case it is in another swappers stash or if they don't like it. The new ones are marvelous, I couldn't resist them, hope you agree!
hugs,
dj
Shopped today for 5 new orange FQs to balance out what I send in case it is in another swappers stash or if they don't like it. The new ones are marvelous, I couldn't resist them, hope you agree!
hugs,
dj
09-03-2017, 07:02 PM
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Location: West Sacramento, CA
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Mine are going out on Tuesday. All cut and no Halloween and only one fall theme. Pretty impressed as orange is not a color I would often use but cannot wait to make a quilt out of the 5 inch orange charms.
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