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Monday, December 2, 2013

Mystery Quilt Part 1...whoops!

I was very, very excited for Bonnie Hunter's Celtic Solstice mystery quilt to begin. So excited, in fact, that I cut 90 triangles from the wrong color fabric. Yep.


I am using slightly different colors than Bonnie, and I didn't think before doing my cutting. Here is the color mapping:

Bonnie          Heather
Yellow  -->  Yellow/Orange
Orange -->  Pink
Green  --> Green
Blue  --> Blue

You can see the colors are pretty darn similar. The tricky bit is that I have one color of yellow/orange, whereas Bonnie has yellow and orange as two separate colors.  So when I saw 90 triangles of "orange," I just went ahead and cut out of my yellow orange. And didn't realize until I was done cutting that I should have done pink.

So.

People who have done mystery quilts before: Should I just go ahead and flip my pinks and yellows in the quilt? (e.g. when Bonnie says orange, I will do yellow/orange, and when Bonnie says yellow, I will do pink)  Should I recut triangles in pink and hope I will find a use for the yellow triangles I already cut? My main concern here is wasting all the fabric I already cut.  

I am secretly hoping that next week Bonnie will tell us to cut 90 triangles of yellow, and then I will be able to make use of these triangles without messing with the color scheme. Fingers crossed!

You can read up on everyone else's mystery quilt progress at Quiltville.


3 comments:

  1. Well, you can go ahead with the neutral triangles. It's a Mystery, so surrender to the process! Have fun!

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  2. You could probably use what you've cut and just switch the color placement. There's no guarantee that you'll use the same pieces in another part of the quilt.

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  3. Whatever you do it will turn out great!

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