January 8, 2012
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Orca Bay Quilt
The mystery is solved!
Christmas and New Years week we got the 7th and 8th final clues to our Orca Bay Mystery Quilt and I couldn’t be happier with the finished quilt. It wasn’t until week 7 that I could finally start seeing what it was going to look like.
This quilt is not for the faint of heart! Last evening I counted close to 4,000 pieces in it. For the past two days I have been sewing almost non-stop.
My holidays were filled with loved ones and family . It was a week that I will treasure and cherish the memories for years to come. My Orca Bay lay untouched for that week and I felt I fell way behind.
My sister Julia and I were talking on the phone concerning our quilts, (she’s doing this mystery as well) and we both decided to switch out the dark and light Ohio Stars so that the dark ones run in the diagonal sashing.
Now for the border. I have yet to choose an inner border for it. Here are two different colors I am auditioning.
Shall I go with the blue one?………….
…….or shall I go with the red one?
Thanks Bonnie Hunter for this new quilting experience. I’m already looking forward to next years mystery!
Comments (20)
RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s a beaut!! “Blue or Red?” My bedroom’s blue, so you know what I’D pick. (o;p
This surely has been a fun mystery quilt. It’s been a lot of work too, fun work, or really, it’s not even work, it’s play!!!! I really like your quilt. As for the border? Maybe red or blue.
I vote for the red border…it ties together all the other reds and adds a POP of color! That is my inexperienced opinion.
Wow, Polly – what a beautiful quilt!! I’m leanin’ towards red.
Red really pops the pattern.
That is gorgeous!! My vote is red
I like the red better too. The blue gets lost. The quilt turned out lovely. You certainly aren’t faint of heart. I’m wondering what projects you have lined up for sewing retreat.
Beautiful! I vote for red also!
RED, absolutely!!!
I vote for the ‘RED’!!
I vote red too, and I didn’t read the other comments first!
I had already thought the red too. It ties it together better. I like the switch of the light and dark Ohio blocks. I believe it does something extra for the quilt and plan to do the same for mine. I will be awhile before mine is as far as yours.
I vote for red……what would black look like in there????
I love the red border!!
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I love the red one…it seems to be a favorite! The quilt turned out beautifully, well worth the work!
oh, lovely~
my grandma has made me so many quilts and they’re my favorite blankets to snuggle under!
i’m sure you’ve already picked and fininished the border by now. but i like blue.
i’m sure either/or will look great though.
What a cool quilt. I was wondering if you have any patterns to piece some jungle animals (elephant, girafee, rhino, etc) I was thinking it might be fun to try to piece some animal blocks. We have a “craft night” every so often with some women here and we do different sewing/quilting projects. I saw a baby quilt with a number of pieced animals on but now the people are on furlough in Norway so i can’t see it to see if i could make a pattern. Just wondering. heidi
sorry didn’t write which boarder i would choose, definatly the red. it ties it all together in my option. I was just thinking as i was looking at the pictures how a boarder can really change the look of the quilt. It’s amazing how you get different focal points on the piecing with the changing of hte boarder color.
I don’t suppose you need my vote but I’m for the Red! Mother