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Monday, April 01, 2013

Quiltville Goes To Nashville! ((Give-Away!))

I’ve had Tricia Yearwood’s “Livin’ on the Wrong Side of Memphis” playing through my head through the past few days!

However, Nashville is on the RIGHT SIDE!

What’s not to like about Nashville, TN in the spring?

Three workshops and a Lecture/Trunk Show!

Time to explore and find antique malls and quilt shops?

Reconnect with some ladies I haven’t seen in several years!

The only thing dragging me down is that my flight is wheels up at 6:53AM this morning ---so you guessed it – this post is being written ahead so I don’t have to deal with it when the alarm goes off at 4am.

Some sewing did get accomplished on a very quiet Easter Afternoon ---

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I sewed a spring green binding on a very pink Atlas machine, circa 1958!
Doesn’t this shout SPRING to you?

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Bright green binding on an indigo blue border? You bet!

I can’t show you the whole project because there are magazine and book plans for this one in the future –but I’ve been working with these colors for the past 6 months or so, building this quilt as leaders and enders while working on everything else as always – just working here and there a bit at a time.  This is a project that has packed easily in my suitcase.  Up until now!

I have a “generic” walking foot on the pink Atlas machine….and needing a 1/4” binding and finding the foot too wide to use the edge of the foot as my guide, I screwed on another little vintage goodie that came in a random box of machine feet – it’s a curved seam  guide that drops down in FRONT of the foot so I can set it where I need to go!

I've found sometimes when putting on a binding that the sticky guide is not high enough to use as a fence when the quilt is thicker than the guide.  I still like the sticky guide for every day all purpose piecing..but for binding and using a walking foot, this is my alternative!

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Loving the 1940’s looking backing fabric!

This has been in the stash for some time –((Like years and years and years)) and there was just enough to use  for the backing and the sleeve with just about nothing left over ---Bye bye!

Guess what finally showed up on my doorstep?  The latest Quiltmaker May/June issue with Wild & Goosey & Part II of the Lazy Sunday Mystery in it!!

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Do you see a similarity between the colors on the cover – and the snips of my quilt above?
Sometimes –the color goddesses are in synch!

Let’s have a Give-Away!

Tell me what color combos you are working with right now! 

I’ll be home Friday and we will draw a winner for one copy of Quiltmaker Magazine's May/June issue on Friday Evening ---

Catch you from Nashville!

452 comments:

  1. Love that springy-green! And ever so curious about that mysterious quilt ...... :)
    Colour-combo's.... Actually I love all colours....
    Maybe sounds a bit strange, but every colour has its beauty.
    I'm working on Reds/Whites and bright colours/whites ; and antique colours all together....
    Sorry! I just think I'm working with ALL colours....
    LOL!
    Have fun sewing!
    Love from the Netherlands, Ria.

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  2. Civil war colors and muted warm tones seem to be the fabrics that I lean toward so I have many scraps in those tones. Using those up in several scrap projects.

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  3. I'm working on Easy Sunday, with 1930's reproduction prints and also working on a quilt with shirt fabrics.
    Cindy in SC

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  4. I'm always using a rainbow of colours! I'm too eclectic to work with just a few!

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  5. Can't wait to see the quilt with the spring green binding. I have been working with lots of green lately. It's a great color for any time of the year.

    Judy

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  6. Just cut about 4 million 2.5 inch squares for a very simple mindless sewing quilt. The colours are blue and green - its looking great xx

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  7. Working with teals and greys for a wedding quilt. Have the fabric and have spring break this week. Hope to get strips cut and started sewing. Working on an Irish chain. Can't wait to get going!

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  8. Working with pinks and blues at the moment, but I use most colours in my quilting

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  9. I just finished a Great Granny square quilt in brights. I used different fabrics in each of the twenty blocks except for a common red centre square.

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  10. I am still busy with my black and white and blues :)

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  11. Traditional Amish colors with black going on at this time in a mini.

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  12. I have mostly been working with red and white, or some variation of it. I'm working on a pinwheel block quilt out of Arkansas Razorback fabric. I'm down to the border now, then off to another quilt, but what will it be? Looking forward to the second part of the mystery.. And to seeing the blue/green binding quilt...

    Safe travels.

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  13. I'm making a sister's choice with rainbow points in bright pinks,blues,yellows,oranges,purples, and green. I love all the bright colors together! I've been following you, and have been making the bonus half square triangles! Pure genius!

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  14. Have a great time in Nashville.
    I am working on Easy Street and Lazy Sunday in the colors from your Easy Streets paint chip recommendations with adding the colors for Lazy Sunday.
    I also have a class project going with 2 shades of purple, a yellow and cream for a quilt called Winding Waves.

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  15. Welcome to Nashville. Sorry I'm not able to be with you but I am sure my friends who will be there will have lots of fun stories to share with me.

    I just finished a quilt top using greens, hellows, blues, pinks...a little of everything in pastels.

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  16. Hand quilting my Easy Street which I did in lime green, pink and brown batiks! (I actually did two, one in your color combo) which I will hand quilt next!
    Donna in Kentucky

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  17. Working on your Boxed Stars pattern for our guild donation, so not one color is missing from the color wheel! It's coming out really nice and it will be hard to give away. Still have to decide on the sashing fabric, but want to wait until all the blocks are done first. Only 28 more quarter blocks to go!. Yay.

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  18. Using a basic green and gray green with other colors thrown in. For a leaders and Enders I'm using white with a scrappy variety of brights.

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  19. I am hoping to start lazy Sunday, so I'm fabric choosing this afternoon.

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  20. I have a brown, orange and soft yellow Pineapple Bloosum that needs to be set so it's the next project.
    Hugs!!!!

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  21. I am getting ready to start a 30's print quilted table cloth for my sister in law. Any thing bright and cheery to dispel the gloom of winter that keeps lingering on here in Ohio!!!

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  22. I am making a multi scrap pineapple - all colors, fabrics plus white in 3 of the rounds

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  23. Love the blues and green, my latest project is with red, white and black, but have a pink and gray on deck.

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  24. Over Easter I've been machine quilting a quilt in greens browns teal and cream, bit of hand quilting a pink and yellow with white quilt and appliquing a bright border on a grey/black spot. Think I've got most colours covered!

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  25. Right now I'm working on a zigzag quilt using shades of blue, green, brown and cream. It's for my father-in-law.... shhhhh, it's a surprise!

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  26. I'm in an orange phase right now. Orange and "everything" is my color palette right now!

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  27. I am finishing up 2 scrap 2 1/2 inch quilts and working on a teddy bear applique quilt. I love the antique shops in tenn.That is where my husband found my featherweight.

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  28. I am putting together a string quilt for my nephews graduation. Blacks, reds, grays, whites. A little dark for this time of year, but I am trudging along!

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  29. Anonymous7:53 AM EDT

    Iam using red, Brown, beige, black and tan fabrics for a civil war project.
    Hugs from France and thanks for the chance to win this book (unfoundable in my country)

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  30. My 85yr old Mum came to stay recently and for something to do whilst the east wind raged and the snow piled up against the doors we sorted my shirt stash by the cosy log fire. I noticed how well the teal, orange and purple shirts went together, add a little neutral and that's my latest colour-combo. I've almost finished Easy Street using new fabrics so my next quilt has to be all recycled fabric to keep the faith!
    Live long and prosper.
    LW

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  31. I'm working on a scrap medallion quilt in lovely medium soft colours, and a little cheddar thrown in to give the mix some buzz.

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  32. I am starting to pull the colours for Easy Street. I am going with your palette.

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  33. I'm currently working on My Blue Heaven in...wait for it...BLUES and neutral creams!!! Bet you didn't see that one coming! I love Bonnie's color sense so I tend to use the same color palettes in Bonnie patterns. Interesting to see how different they can look even starting out with the same palette. Best Wishes from a gloomy day in Ohio.

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  34. I just finished a purple, green, and black quilt. I'm putting the binding on a blue and white quilt, and am starting a quilt using greens and neutrals.

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  35. I've got several works in progress....one is bright, happy colors and I just need to add a scrappy bright green border. Another is bright batiks---love those! And I'm hand quilting a brown/black/tan/neutral quilt for my son. Love the variety!

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  36. The main colors in my scrappy trip along are blue and yellow, but it is scrappy so it also has pink, purple, green and brown. On my Great granny squares quilt, it is for my 7 year old niece so it is citrus colors, green, yellow and orange and non-citrusy pink.
    missysaprons@gmail.com

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  37. Like so many others, I am working in scrappy colors right now, just finishing up a Moth In The Window using men's shirts, some given to me by a quilty friend. Trouble is, I think the shirting material in the storage bin expanded instead of becoming less. I could make 8 or 9 of these quilts from that stash. Yikes. Keep on keepin' on, everyone.

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  38. This past Saturday I started a superhero quilt for my soon to be 4 year old's birthday in 3 weeks. The main colors are red, blues (slate, bright,baby blue, Navy), gold/yellow, and a bright green.

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  39. I am doing scrap browns greens and reds. Actually won't be touching it this week, but will be driving through Nashville today and again on Wednesday . Spring break for the grands.

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  40. Right now I am finishing blocks for the Scrappy Mountain Majesties quilt. My colors are from light 'off white' to paper bag brown for the 'sky above mountains' and earthy tones for the 'mountains'. Love the earth-tones.

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  41. I love your lime green and navy combo! There was a family in church yesterday all dressed in navy and white with yellow accessories. So classically preppy. I'm working from my batik stash this week. Started in the browns and oranges, making my way over to the greens.

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  42. My current top is being done in civil war colors.

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  43. My color combo's right now are:
    Quilt 1: red, aqua, green
    Quilt 2: shirt plaids with solid blue sashing

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  44. Scrap Quilting all year, ALL COLORS cut small so no Uglies!

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  45. I just finished binding a quilt that is full of spring colors. I'm also working on a quilt using some of my late father's shirts--mainly red,blues and neutrals.

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  46. At the moment I am working with soft greens, whites, and a splash of teal blue... soon a table runner will be welcoming spring on my dining table!!

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  47. Blue black red white...Orca Bay #2.
    Fuschia lime teal purple orange cream...Lazy Sunday.

    I think I've been Bonnie washed.....

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  48. I am still working on Easy Street and I chose your color palette, so lime green, aqua, grey, b/w, purple. I decided to go with your colors to challenge myself to not only do a mystery and scrappy, but with colors I would not normally choose. I am loving it!

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  49. I'm still working on Easy Street so my color combo is brown/cream/purple/pink and green. I have 10 block As done so hopefully it won't be too much longer before the top is done. Thanks for the give away.

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  50. Lori Holt's Row Along Quilt using scraps of all colors, quilt top finished, http://quiltinanotshell.blogspot.no/2013/03/bimb-quilt-top-finished.html, working on the quilting.

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  51. Primary colors and white! thanks for the chance!

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  52. I'm working on a baby quilt and using bright colors. I just had a sewing day this weekend with my daughter ...so fun!

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  53. I am fixing to put the borders on Easy Street. Using your color palette for the body of quilt, I decided on a teal inner border and a purple finishing border.. I have never put a border on before and am a little apprehensive about this step. I also am working on a TShirt quilt for my husband, never done one, but getting there. Black will be the sashing, but can't decide about borders yet. Two firsts for me, a large finished quilt(first mystery) and TShirt quilt(for my love), I need some mindless project next, so I can relax a little. Have a great trip and thanks for everything you have taught me!!!

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  54. I am working on a Nautical/lighthouse quilt. I am doing my best to create a pattern on my own while replicating 6 US lighthouses, Tybee island, Nantucket, Baltimore, Jupiter, Delaware and a Maine lighthouse. It's looking great if I do say so myself. My colors are red, cream, 3 shades of blue and black for the lighthouses! Happy quilting everyone!!

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  55. I'm working with a rainbow of batiks on an applique quilt. Love your vintage machine! I have one that is from the very early 1950's and it has cams for different decorative stitches. For straight stitching, it's a real work horse. Love the color of yours!

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  56. 1. black & silver (signature quilt - scrappy silver hearts on black with squiggly white doves background)
    2. black & white (optical illusion quilt)
    3. red & scrappy (string quilt)

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  57. Well I'm working on my Scrappy Cheddar Bowties all the time... and trying to finish a black/red/white Jared Takes a Wife for my daughter. We won't mention all the possibilities dancing around in my head... :) Have a safe trip!

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  58. Easy Street colors. With knee surgery scheduled one week from today I have a lot of pain trying to sew so Easy Street is going VERY slow at this point. Have a great trip.

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  59. browns, golds, greens, with some reds,orange and blues thrown in. :-)

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  60. appliqueing girls with big skirt dresses & little hats (not a SBS) on a light batik background. Every dress is different and everyone was in my stash.

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  61. Just finishing an I spy quilt w he is.would love to win your prize.

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  62. I'm working with some kaleidescopic Jason Yenter fabric, the colors of which are ink blue, sky blue, black, white, and just a bare touch of yellow and green. It's been interesting and yet challenging at the same time because these are NOT my usual colors.

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  63. Working with lots of grey and yellow right now.

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  64. I am working on a challenge quilt that will depict a favorite childhood memory. I am making kites in bright hand dyes colors of spring Greens, pinks, yellows and orange on a bright sky blue I still fly my kite in honors of spring while singing let's go fly a kite much to my DH amusement! Somethings never change!

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  65. My current color combos are Cheddar and a mix of colors from my stash. I'm making Cheddar bowties...have 320 already made up. Enjoy your time in Music City.

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  66. I have a couple, one is the "comma" fq bundle, zowie it is awesome and another is reds, all sorts of fabrics and blends, but reds and pinks....I have not decided on a pattern but I think they lend themselves to modern... hmmmmm

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  67. I am working on a challenge quilt that will depict a favorite childhood memory. I am making kites in bright hand dyes colors of spring Greens, pinks, yellows and orange on a bright sky blue I still fly my kite in honors of spring while singing let's go fly a kite much to my DH amusement! Somethings never change!

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  68. Right now I'm quilting a full/queen sized quilt on my DSM, but as soon as it's finished, it's on to an "I Spy" baby quilt with main colors of light gray and turquoise.

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  69. Just finishing an I spy quilt w he is.would love to win your prize.

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  70. right now: it's reds, pinks, greens, browns and neutrals, my version of roll roll cotton ball

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  71. I am working on a scrappy collection of everything but not pastels. I am also getting a backing put together for your "Hand Me Downs" quilt.

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  72. I seem to be in a black and any other color groove right now. I have a black with several bright batiks in the works and my next project is black with repro fabrics appliquéd on to it. I never would have thought of the lime and blue and white combo, but it is quite striking.

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  73. I work with red and black, a row along at Bee In My Bonnet. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  74. Looking forward to seeing the finished project!~ Right now I am working on a rag quilt while I learn to sew on my treadle. It is all colors for my king size bed but I am on the pink and brown row right now.
    Have fun in Nashville!

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  75. I am using pink and green on the quilt pieces chaining in my machine. Might be a baby quilt for my first granddaughter (after 6 grandsons) who is due May 24th. She is being adopted and is an unexpected gift from God.

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  76. I'm working with red, brown, blue, gray and BOW. Yes, I'm trying to finish my first Easy Street for my grandson. I've finally been able to sew again after the move from heck! It took 3 trucks to move all of our stuff from Orlando and Tampa to Riverview. But we are home now! Have a great time in Nashville. I lived there back in 95-96 and LOVED the city! There is a quilt shop in Franklin (Stitcher's Garden, maybe?) where there is tons of fabric and a crabby owner. But it is worth the drive! Have fun!!

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  77. I'm working on Just Plain Nuts. It is all sorts of greens. Originally the name was to be Just Plain Nuts for green (my favorite color). Recently, I changed my mind. Women do have the right to change their mind. I counted up the different green fabrics in the blocks. Showing my OCD side. The current name is 50 Shades of Green. BTW, I LOVE your green binding on the indigo!

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  78. I am working on Easy Street and substituted the purple with orange - very springy! (BTW thanks for the pattern).

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  80. I'm working today with golds and browns, Jo Morton fabrics. Love them!

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  81. Right now I am working with yellows, blues, pinks and greens...very SPRING-Y! I needed an extra dose of that happy goodness with how unusually cold our weather has been!

    Thanks for the chance to win!

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  82. I'm on the prowl for ice blue, charcoal grey, and black fabrics for a modern quilt for our daughter and son in law. They have very modern tastes so it's been a challenge! Finding a modern pattern is also challenging.

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  83. Royal blue, vibrant purple, true green--a wedding signature quilt for a niece.

    Love Nashville--my musician-photographer son rocks it there--enjoy!

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  84. Love the blue and the green together! I'm working on a new queen size quilt with browns and turquoise prints! Most of the blocks are done for the center...taking it to a quilt retreat with me next weekend with hopes of getting the blocks put together and the top done...fingers crossed.
    Have a great trip!
    Cindy in NY

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  85. Yesterday I began piecing the blocks together for a Scrappy Trips made all from my "collection". This one is for my son and his fiancé made in spring colors, jewel tones and pastels. Thank you for the free pattern. I have so many 2 1/2" strips left I need to find another quilt to make. Any suggestions? rtetef@gmail.com

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  86. 1) blue, green, cream with golden yellow accent.
    2) 1930's rainbow of colors
    3) HST any scraps available, all colors
    4) grey, silver, white with bright color accents.

    Thanks for the giveaway. Have fun in Nashville.

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  87. Recently I have been working with royal blue, lime green, orange and neutrals. So similar to what you show here, I love the zingy, fresh combination.

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  88. Put this down as one for the books...I have zero ufos and a blank canvas. Oh the joy of starting something new :) so no colors picked yet. I do know one thing, since 2001 I've been shopping stash 100% and my bank account appreciates it :)

    I do have a new machine, a gorgeous blue-greenie 15 clone which I'll be working on today. So that is my color choice.

    Thanks again for all you do, freely and with exuberance. You set the standard very high for other teachers, seldom do they measure up.
    Sharyn

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  89. Yesterday I pulled fabric from my stash for a picnic quilt and have dark yellow, gold, bright green and aqua.
    Thanks for everything you share.

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  90. Working on East Street - brown, blue, pink and green . . . also multi-colored 30's quilt - can't wait to see you in June!

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  91. Navy blue and yellow because this are the colors of the Nancy Drew fabric

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  92. I'm currently working on Tulip Fields, so I'm working with red, lights, and absolutely everything else! Way to narrow it down, girl!

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  93. Enjoy Nashville! I am in baby quilt making mode so.. that means blues, pinks and spring green. Thank you for sharing!

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  94. everything I am working on right now involves lots and lots of color - scrap quilting - no particular scheme of color involved.

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  95. I am doing a Route 66 theme for my Project Linus boys! That is stoplight colors: red, yellow, green with some royal blue thrown in for police bubble lights!

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  96. Anonymous8:59 AM EDT

    I am working with grey, red, black and white. I have been excited to see this issue of Quiltmaker!

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  97. I am working on a row by row scrap quilt made with my quilt group members. The colors are tan, black, brown, green and navy. Kind of dark... I'm ready to sew something bright for spring!!

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  98. Anonymous9:00 AM EDT

    I am working on Air Force Blue, with a little Red & white mixed in. Most of the fabric is different USAF novelty prints. I am doing a memorial quilt to give to a little boy who's USAF daddy was killed in the line of duty at Andrews AFB, Maryland in February.
    Mary Deeter / Stitchinggrandma

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  99. Couldn't resist digging into my very generous Bag O' Swag from Quiltmaker's Block Party. I cut up some of the delicious Ty Pennington fat quarters to combine with some pink & yellow & jade & blue from my stash to make a quick donation quilt in a pinwheel pattern. Some teenage girl is going to go gaga!

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  100. I am working on purple and green right now, with other colors calling me too.

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  101. I'm working on a quilt for a friend. She choose reds and muslin, with a little bit of blue, yellow, green and orange. It's not a red red, but a softer red. If that makes sense. Today I will be working on the borders. Have fun in Nashville. That's a someday destination for me.

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  102. I am working with some Kaffe Fassett fabric right now, so I guess that would come under the header of "every color imaginable." Also working on a raspberry and green quilt.

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  103. I'm working on my April mini quilt of the month--an Easter egg with purple, green, pink and yellow. The next project will be a table runner with teal and neutrals. I plan on cutting that one while I watch last week's quilt cam today--can't wait!

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  104. Purple, Green, Tourquois. Still trudging along with easy street!

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  105. Just finished a baby quilt with owls in bright bold colors--orange, lime green, teal, blue, chartreuse, red, yellow, all on a cream background.

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  106. Working on mainly jewel colours - pink, blue, turquoise, purple and green.

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  107. I'm in a totally scrappy mood, playing with darks and lights in a WONDERFUL "Bonnie" fashion....hst's with four patches....looks warm and comfy!!!

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  108. Blue and White and Maroon and Gold for my upcoming High School Senior, the first high school colors, and got accepted to the
    University of MN, to decorate the dorm room. Go Gophers!! I am
    so proud of him. What's a Mom to do Right? Thanks for everything
    and all your quilting inspiration.

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  109. Th color gods are in sync. I am working in blues and greens too; only with tans and beiges added, not white. Hope you have a fun trip!

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  110. right now im cutting up old flanel pj pants for a memorial quilt for someone. they are greys, blues and greens.

    I just finished a purple and green quilt and a quilt with turquoise and greenish yellow.

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  111. I'm working on a sister's choice quilt with brown star points. The nine patches are basically greens, blues, rusts, and golds. It's to be a donation quilt for an auction for our local Kiwanis chapter.

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  112. I'm in the midst of a blues and browns baby quilt for a friend's new baby boy!

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  113. I'm alternating between xmas greens and browns (I know, wrong season, I'm very late) and some reds and browns - again wrong season.... Trying madly to get caught up so I can play with some spring colours... Thanks for sharing
    bonnielarson58@gmail.com

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  114. Aquas and lime greens are my favorites right now - bright and springy and happy! That's what I loved so much about Easy Street :*)

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  115. I am working on your Texas Tumbleweed. The main colors are brown and creams, but the rest of it is a riot of colorful scraps. I love using lots of color in my quilts. It makes me happy to see so many fabrics getting along with each other :)

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  116. Hot pink lime green & white

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  117. Green,purple,blue,red,and gray(shirts)

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  118. Zuckerwatte in your colors. I love it and am finishing the border wishing I wasn't done! LOL!

    Lucy~

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  119. I'm drooling over your pink machine. What a sweetie!
    I have too many color combos in the works to list! A bit of this and a bit of that.
    Currently hand quilting an Amish Bullseye with many wonderful solids.

    Maybe we'll cross paths while you are in Nashville. I'm not very far from the airport.

    Hope you have a great trip.

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  120. I am currently helping my oldest granddaughter work on her first quilt. She is doing everything by herself with me watching and giving encouragement and advice from nearby. She picked out the most gorgeous color combination of limey greens, teal/aqua blues and chocolatey browns! I intend to definitely use all her scraps in my next project!

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  121. I'm scrappy, using Asian fabrics to make String-X blocks.

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  122. I am currently working on a mystery quilt with our LQS with deep blues and my new favorites Lime greens! It is so much fun to see the colors work together!

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  123. I'm paper piecing (on a Singer 99 hand crank) the Harry Potter, The Project of Doom quilt. My 'colors' are a dark tan for the background, and all sorts of fun colors for the books. Hedwig the Owl is next up, so, it will be different whites and off whites. Enjoy Nashville. A friend of mine, Teresa, is taking your class (Wed, I think). Enjoy the warmer temps, it's cold here, outside of Chicago.

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  124. I am just finishing up an applique quilt using 1800's repro's. Have been on this one for over a year and loved every stitch, but am ready to work on something bright and cheerful!

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  125. I'm making a zippered pouch in pink and orange!
    Hoping I can enter from England!

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  126. It's spring break and week off work and I'm going to do some sewing and I want to use bright brights and get ready for the warm days of SPRING with summer rowing in right around the corner!!

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  127. Working with hot aqua, lime green and purple.......also doing a " little sisters choice" for twin girls to be born end of June, in 1920's fabric....the nine patches are 3 inch finished... They are sooo cute.... Thanks for the inspiration......enjoy Nashville!

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  128. Just finishing up a project in red, brown, and cream. It's beautiful, but I'm ready for something else. Love your spring colors!!

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  129. Doing hexes with Barbara Brackman's Metropolitan Fair collection.

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  130. Right now I am working with red and fushia and adding a bit of eggplant to it.

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  131. My last project was with the rainbow colors. But the best color of color combo is srappy (Scrapquilts) - all colors are in it - the life is the same - bad and pretty years and with fabric bad and pretty colors. Have a nice spring day with fresh colors of live.

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  132. Currently working with black, white, apple green and red.

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  133. My current project combines every color of the rainbow with white and I'm not loving it. I'm planing one with blues & greens that suits me better. Thanks & wish I were in Nashville. Have fun!

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  134. I'm working with bright colors. Making a few baby quilts for charity. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  135. I'm currently working with blue and neutral. I'm working on a quilt for my new grandson that is due in July!!! :)

    We go to Nashville once or twice a year because my daughter and her family live in Mt. Juliet which is just outside Nashville! There's a nice quilt shop in Mt. Juliet if you can find someone who will take you there. :) The owner has a FW set up that she uses. :)
    http://www.thequilterspath.com/

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  136. Working with the brights right now..pinks,teals,oranges,purples for one project and shirtings for another...

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  137. I am working on a very scrappy quilt at this time. Remember the Sister's Choice workshop at Hawk's Nest? Yep! After watching your quiltcam a few weeks ago, I decided to get it out and finish it!!
    I am also making scarlet & grey (Ohio State colors) travel tissue holders!

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  138. Hi Bonnie,
    Have a great time in Nashville and if you can be sure to check out the cocoanut cake at the Firefly Grille on Bandywood Drive in gree Hills . It is to die for! I am currently working on a Smith Mountain (Christmas) Morning in reds, greens, grays and whites. Thank you!

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  139. Under the needle right this minute is a Texas Braid in autumn colours

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  140. Colonial colors - but yearning for something BRIGHT for spring!

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  141. Woodsy browns, greens, maroons, tans with pinecones, trees, bears, and mountains. Basically fall colors to "build" a log cabin quilt.
    Thank you for the give~away!

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  142. My current projects are VERY different from each other... One is a sampler in various blacks, grays and salmon-ish corals with a mottled cream background for my constant. The other project that is almost ready to quilt is all hand dyed fabrics in an 18 shade bright spring color wheel on a tan background. Love all colors and styles of fabric here!

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  143. Multiple projects, multiple color pallets. A pink and white Bonnie Hunter Star Struck pattern and totally scrappy 300+ charming additions pattern. It has been cut for 3 months and inspiration came last night on how to sew it together with a limited design wall. Can't wait to start it.

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  144. Putting together some spring colors: yellow, spring green, and blue.

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  145. I have been working with lime green, blue and a turquoise sort of color.

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  146. This morning? It's black, red, and cream.
    nancyrose123@hotmail.com

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  147. I have been working on my scrappy trips around the world - it still needs a few more blocks, but I'm going to need to switch to a quilt for a sister who is probably getting married over the summer. Hmmm... I have a WIP red and blue quilt with the blocks made just needing to set a summer wedding time frame.

    So excited for this new Quiltmaker! Have fun in Tennessee!!!!!

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  148. I'm working on a bright pastel quilt, pinks, blues, greens, and white.

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  149. I'm working on a bright pastel quilt, pinks, blues, greens, and white.

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  150. I've been working on Easy Street in the purple, b/w, green, grey colors. I've arranged it into the Easy Alley formation. I'm also working on a half-jelly roll quilt in brights/pastels. It's a welcome change to see all the colors after a long winter. It's still white and snowing here in interior Alaska. But the days are longer and sunny. Love your patterns and use-up-scrap mentality. I plan on doing the new one in the magazine.

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  151. Still woking on the scrappy Jamestown landing I started in your class, but I got the Easy Street done and just loving it. Thanks Bonnie for all you do for us quilters.

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  152. Just putting together a pink and purple diamond quilt of batiks, not my usual but love it.

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  153. Working on my latest quilt that is red on red

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  154. I on step 7 of my Orca Bay.I used orange and purple for my main colours. Hope to have it finished (quilted and bound)by the time my son comes home in August so I can give it to him.

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  155. I am actually working with all shades of blues and whites to off whites. I am making Blue Ridge Beauty! I fell in love with this pattern in your book and it has been my leader and ender project for awhile. It is now at the stage of blocks coming together. I am SEW excited to get this together. I love, love, love blues!! Thanks for the opportunity to do this, keep up the good work!

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  156. So springy! I'm stuck in fall colours at the moment.

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  157. I have been working with BRIGHTS!!!!! Any and all brights. Have a fun trip and stay safe.

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  158. Nothing, I have lost my mojo. HELP!!!

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  159. I'm not working in any particular color combo, but in my favorite --- scrappy shirts!! I love the scrap quilts and sometimes have difficulty working in one color combination. Hope it is springy in Nashville --- was cold and rainy, when we drove through on Friday.

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  160. Right now I am working with purple and greens.
    Betty

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  161. I guess lately I've been working with brights with a white background.

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  162. Spring pastels; pink, yellow, blue, green, and lavender.

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  163. My imagination is suffering Spring Fever so I'm working in tone-on-tone shades of vivid red daisies and cloudy blue violets blocks, sprinkled with black/white & white/black butterflies. I plan to sash with tone-on-tone greens and border with a tone-on-tone white picket fence.
    For color photos of fabrics plz visit my blog:
    http://debi-peacebypiece.blogspot.com/
    under the title DREAMS of a GARDEN.

    Best wishes while in Nashville!
    The inspiration of navy, turquoise and lime green on white is eye-poppin'!

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  164. I'm working on last year's BOM from Primitive Gatherings and it's mostly red and black, not your typical spring colors, but fits in with my decor.

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  165. browns and oranges for one project and wild brights for another
    Karin

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  166. I am working with all my scrappy !!! Need to make more room in my containers for more scrappies !!

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  167. I am doing a charity quilt in blues, browns and oranges.

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  168. I'm working on a pink, orange, yellow and white quilt top.
    Toni

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  169. I am working on Easy Street. I have yet to finish Steps 5 6 and 7. Being gone, sewing room reconstruction, and illness stopped me dead, but have it pulled out and open by the machine!!!! Can't wait to finish it. 4 of us did it together, 2 are completely finished and 2 of us are lagging behind!

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  170. Working on my Easy Street in different tones of blue and neutrals, and a Hexie project with mostly yellows, light greens, and light blues (seems like I'm having a 'Blue Period' :D ).
    I love the colors of your new project and the Quilt on Quiltmaker magazine! It screams Spring!

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  171. My leader/ender project is Jamestown Landing so blues and neutrals for that. My main project at the moment is a very scrappy small quilt that has shirtings plus pink, light blue, dark blue, brown, green, and red. I love playing in the scraps!

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  172. Mostly scrappies on machine sewing, but I am working on a hexie Grandmother's Flower Garden in 1930s repros bright pastels, too.

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  173. Love how the navy blue backing and green binding looks together, I'm not a fan of green, but I do like the looks of those two together.
    I'm working with light and dark green and cream, trying to finish a St. Paddy's Day table runner, yea I'm a little behind, oh well it'll be done for next year...LOL. I love the Starburst Block but it was giving me a little grief so it's taken a lot longer than I hoped it would have.

    I will be watching my local quilt shop for the Quiltmaker Magazine...thanks for letting us know that it is out. Have a great week Bonnie!!
    Gwen

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  174. I am right in between projects...let's see, just finished with lime green, yellows, teals and blk/whites....next up blues, lime greens and grey...maybe

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  175. I've been wondering where my Quiltmaker magazine is. Hoping it will show up today or tomorrow.

    I'm working on Easy Street in the blue, green, purple, and b/w combination. Also working on a disappearing 9-patch in a girly pinky-lavender combination and planning another in a kaleidoscope of Kaffe Fassett prints. As usual, too much going on at once in this brain!

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  176. Right now, I have so many projects on the go that I have every colour in the paintbox out and playing! Purples, greens and blues for ES, same colours with orange out for LS, cheddars and scraps for my bowties, EVERYTHING for a STATW, reds, blues and browns for a new baby quilts and oranges for a quilt for my friend just diagnosed with leukemia (orange is the leukemia support colour). There's colour everywhere in the sewing room! I have a subscription to QM but would give my winning copy to my friend who I "forced" to start LS.

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  177. I am working on My Blue Heaven, in pinks and neutrals. I have all blocks made, now working on putting them together. Love your designs. Crystal in Perry GA.

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  178. Working on a quilt with octagons in the center. The strings surrounding the octos are green, red, blue, and gold.

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  179. I am just beginning: Jamestone Landing in Pink. I enjoy it very much.

    Greeting Guilitta

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  180. I am working on a baby quilt in lovely pastel colors.

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  181. Trying to use up the left overs from Easy Street to make Lazy Sunday! This year I am trying to do what is known as "finish up" some old projects and contain the new ones to mystery quilts and BOM's as they are good for long term WIP's Also, working my way through a Debbie Caffery mystery from 1997 that has been taking up a couple of my drawers in my fabric carts. Shop that had sponsored it went out of business before we got all the clues, so I finally emailed Debbie and told her what happened and she sent me the missing clues-so I can get that one out of the way. It is in browns, tans and gold-way out of my color box! But, I paid for the fabric and hated just having it sitting there-so, by end of year it should be together!
    for today, think I will work on my next installments of the on line mysteries so I can be ready when my Quiltmaker gets here to work on Lazy Sunday!

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  182. I'm working on a cream/charcoal gray/barn red sampler. The blocks were made by friends for my birthday. I got to choose the focus fabric and gave a FQ to each, then they used it to make whatever block they wanted. I'm absolutely loving working with these blocks! Might even have it finished for my next birthday at the end of May.

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  183. Black and white, white and black, and pinks :)

    brights: greens, blues, pinks, purples, and butterflies !!

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  184. Hello Bonnie,
    I am working with multi colours right now. Doing hexagons with a white background as the patter in all the other colours. Trying to go from dark to bright from the center toward the outsid. Kind of difficult, but fun.
    Happy Easter to you still :o)
    Doris

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  185. Right now I'm working with blue. Only blue, just to see if I can sew a nice quilt from ugly fabrics.
    Not for me (I don't like blue) but for sick kids.

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  186. I'm making 2 quilts for my SIL new cats. Pink and green for one; blue and brown for the other. 20" x 24'; simple, and quick.

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  187. I' playing with blues and white right now-always classic. Enjoy Nashville.

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  188. pastels, with aqua polka dot as accent color. now i want to put black polka dot in the border, not sure if it will work. quilt decisions! arrgg!

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  189. Well what colors am I not working with? I'm working on the outside borders of Bricks in a Barnyard that I started in your McKinney class in January. It's all different colors with red.
    I am also working on Easy Street....b/w, green, turquoise, and purply pinks!

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  190. The quilt I am working on has blues and greens, and some small bits of fuchsia. I love it!

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  191. Anonymous11:17 AM EDT

    I am working on a Pansy quilt. Of course all the beautiful pansy colors.

    Paulette

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  192. Pink and yellow are the colours I've been working with lately with a little bit of green thrown in. It has been very cheery on these cold Spring days :)

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  193. I'm doing my second Easy Street in a special "family" color wheel: pink (which represents MY favorite color), light blue (my husband's favorite color), pink on black (which represents the fact that my dad is in a nursing home getting older by the minute), yellow (for my mom) and white on black with musical notes to remind me of my daughter who just had an Allstate Music Festival--she's great on the flute! Just started to piece it all together--it's looking good!

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  194. I'm doing my second Easy Street in a special "family" color wheel: pink (which represents MY favorite color), light blue (my husband's favorite color), pink on black (which represents the fact that my dad is in a nursing home getting older by the minute), yellow (for my mom) and white on black with musical notes to remind me of my daughter who just had an Allstate Music Festival--she's great on the flute! Just started to piece it all together--it's looking good!

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  195. Always nice to see you enjoying your projects.
    I am doing a lot of pieced hexagons in bright colors. Many are of fussy cut animal prints like cats. I always told myself that I would not make a hexagon quilt but Mickey Dupre came to Austin and gave a workshop and I totally am enjoying myself.
    Dorothy

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  196. I am doing a quilt in blues right now. I just finished one in pink,green, purple, and yellow... Have a safe and fun trip...

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  197. Working with a rainbow of bright colors in dots and a playfull print, it's a BOM for a charity quilt ...so far it is looking good.

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  198. Started a new project last night that involves teal, white, orange, and gray. LOVING the colors!

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  199. Right now I am working on a Double Wedding Ring in shades of gold with cream background. So pretty!

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