Kathy Biggs/MO's Page

Kathy, I've put the following in my cart for the Bonnie Hunter mystery.  I'm making the small quilt.  I've got then in FQs-- 10 yellows, 11 oranges, 9 greens, 13 blues, and I've selected 1 for the background.  Still debating if I should make my background scrappy too?  What do you think.  I'm ordering it all from Connecting Threads.  Sadly the sale will be gone after today and I need to order after payday on Friday. 

I went to Linda's (Inklingo) page, and saw she selected 5 fabrics and already has a pieced quilt.  Is this what Bonnie's quilt will look like??  She's got a sort of stack and whack kind of repetitive middle. 

I'm thinking of doing the small quilt, since I don't want to deal with so much fabrics.  I'm already overwhelmed.

Hi Kathy!  I haven't picked any fabrics for this Bonnie K  Hunter mystery quilt yet.  I went to Connecting Thread and did a fabric selection based on color, and put every FQ that remotely looked close to the paint card.  Then I chose only 1 background.  Then I wondered if it would be better to just buy 1 fabric by yardage per color.  Don't know if I'll get confused with so many fabrics to chose from.  I'll shop for fabrics after the last day of the  month (payday for me).  I'll see what others have done with their mystery clue. 

I do have the FQs for the Craftsy 2012 and 2013 BOM, as I've not even done those, so I've still got all the fabrics. 

Oh, I tried downloading the free Inklingo patterns to try it out, are they always such huge files?  I cancelled the download after passing 15+ MB.  Figured that was just way too huge a file.

I love your color combination inspirations, especially when you incorporate the very bold contrasts.

Kathy you are so right it was very hard to let go of my sweet Mr.  The words of comfort from the ladies on QWU have helped knowing that people care.  Thank you so much for your kind words.  God Bless You!

Hello Kathy!

   I have been evesdropping on the "Gifty Galore" and "Barn Quilt" blogs. You girls are having SO much fun!

   You mentioned that you would like to make a blue and silver winter quilt or wall hanging, so I did some looking.  Those are colors I would love in my home too!  If you want to go to ...quiltwoman.com...there are oodles of patterns there.  I found 2 that look like they would work up beautifully in the blues and silvers.  One is called "The Woods on a Snow Eve" and the other is "Winter Beauties".  Check them out!

   I am seriously thinking of joining the Gifty group of crafty ladies.  Several are already on my friends list.  The problem is that I already spend way too much time here at the computer visiting and learning from the gals, and not enough time on my sewing, quilting, and those other mudane things like housework...ugh!

   Happy stitching!  Oh, and I love how your barn quilt turned out!

Thank you, Kathy--i'm glad you liked the Tetris quilt.

Kathy, the quilt I'm sending is the one on my page with the blue ribbon attached. that was from our local show last fall.