New Quiltville Mystery-Orange Crush

I've decided to do the next Quiltville Mystery, called Orange Crush. The first steps for the quilt will be posted on April 1 so I'm so patiently waiting until I can get started. I've gone through my fabrics to get some idea of what I want to make. I'm really going to try and be good and only use fabrics that I already have on hand and not buy anything new. I found a great floral type print that has wonderful colors that I'm going to pull other fabrics from my stash to coordinate with it. The colors are going to be rust/orange, green, black and the accent will be periwinkle blue (I don't have a lot of this particular color so I may have to buy some). I haven't decided if I want to make my quilt scrappy or control the colors. I do have enough of one fabric for the all the lights to be of one fabric and I'm thinking about doing the same for all the darks (these are the 2 and 31/2 inch strips that Bonnie uses from her scraps). Below is a photo of my fabrics that I've chosen so far:

This is my inspiration fabric, the fabric that I'm using to pull all of my other colors for the quilt.

These are my fabric choices so far. The light fabric on the right will be used for all the light scrappy strips that Bonnie uses in the quilt. I haven't decided on which fabric to use for the dark scrappy strips yet.

Finally some quilting

It's been a while since I've posted anything quilting related. I have been working on a couple of projects but it's just been slow going. Mainly because I haven't had the time and also I think a little of the Winter Blues. I haven't even felt like sewing for a while. I think I've rekindled the bug this week because I've actually finished up a couple of quilt tops that I've been working on. The first is the Quiltville Mystery, Carolina Crossroads. I finally finished adding the borders last night. I really love how the top turned out and I'm getting excited to actually get the machine quilting done. I'm waiting on a wonderful thread order that will be coming my way before I start. The members of the Redthreadquilter Yahoo Group that I founded were so kind to me and did a Thread Surprise while I was in China. They were really kind because I was able to order 25 different cones of thread. All I can say is WOW and a HUGE THANK YOU!!!!! I will be getting about 10 spools of my favorite piecing thread (Aurifil) and 15 spools of 3000 yd Signature Thread for my Machine Quilting.

Carolina Crossroads

Another quilt that I've been working on is from the book One Block Wonders. This book is basically a variation of all the Stack-n-Whack Quilts that I've done in the past. I made one kind of block out of the same fabric and then the twist to the quilt was the layout. The center of the quilt is all the same block made from the same fabric. You get such a wide variety of colors when you make it from the same fabric which enables you to have fun with the all the design possibilities.

A photo of the fabric that I used for all the kaleidoscope blocks.

Some of the individual blocks

The finished quilt top.