Allietare! - Bonnie Hunter's 2015 Mystery Quilt
#22
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Camarillo, CA
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Aunt Jo, The grey is a Constant - only one piece of fabric. Of course, you can do it scrappy if you want - no quilt police here!!! Your colors look wonderful, I had lots of reds, but they are not the right color (too much orange), I'm going to have to get more reds, another darker gold, and wouldn't you know I had a perfect grey, but only 1 1/4 yard instead of 1 1/2 yard. Darn!
#23
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Wisconsin
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Here are my fabrics, didn't even bother with the color cards. After seeing lots of people using green instead of gray I pulled a green one and a denim blue one. I haven't decided which I like best, feel free to tell me which you prefer! All from stash and I even have a backing with these colors in a paisley design on a light background.
DH said it wasn't that I saved by using stash, I just "pre-invested" LOL!!!
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DH said it wasn't that I saved by using stash, I just "pre-invested" LOL!!!
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#24
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 2,122
Last year was my first BH mystery. I learned so much and loved the process. I substituted some of the colors and love my quilt. This year I love her colors so will be using those except might use green for the gray. Someone is mailing out the color chips tomorrow since I don't live near a Lowes. This is going to be so much fun!!
This quilt really calls to me since my DGD's name is Allie!
This quilt really calls to me since my DGD's name is Allie!
#26
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's fabrics. I've been looking for a pattern to do a maroon/black/grey quilt. Don't really want neutrals especially with it being the color with the highest yardage requirement. I need to pick up the paint chips and see if the lightest grey would work as a sub for the neutrals.
#28
Bonnie's colors this year are EXACTLY what I selected for Orca Bay. I will find something different for this year's mystery. I saw another lady who swapped black for Bonnie's neutrals and neutral for Bonnie's blacks. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Might be interesting.
#29
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Catskills, New York
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I really want to do this quilt and I know that many of you have made great variations of Celtic Solstice, so I feel that it's certainly OK to change the colors. I first thought that I might switch the blacks to dark olives and maybe the gray to light olive, because I couldn't "feel" the gray going with the mustard-golds, even though there are so many Tuscan churches with gray next to black stripes. QuiltingVagabond, I really like your green fabric, but, if it's going to substitute for the gray that Bonnie used, might I suggest the lighter olive green in the little leaves on the bottom of your right-hand pile? I've got both blacks and dark olives, so I'll have to make up my mind next month as to which I prefer.
#30
Hi ShirlR, this will be my second....The colors in Grand Illusion were very different from my usual choices but I stayed with the paint cards and the beautiful quilt turned out to be an all time favorite....so glad I accepted the concept of 'mystery'......again this time the colors are interesting individually and having them in plain sight on my cutting table ...seeing them together.....fanning them out or side by side...liking them more each day...this is great !!!!
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