Of course, before piecing I had to choose fabric. I thought about using one consistent background. I couldn’t find a white piece large enough so I picked out several whites to use. Still I wasn’t happy with the choices. <\/p>\n
I could have certainly used text motifs on white fabric again, but I didn’t want to make the same quilt again. <\/p>\n Each time I go into my fabric closet, I see a bin of dots on black. I decided that I would pull some out and try them. The first black was called Color Dots by Jean Ray Laury. It has been in the fabric closet for a long time and it was a good time to bring it to the light. <\/p>\n I thought it looked good with the purple and pink (again!!!) I chose, so I started cutting.<\/p>\n I realized pretty quickly that I had selected the wrong color for the QSTs required and pivoted to a blue-green (Carousel by Melody Miller). The combo is fantastic, if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n I am still concerned that the black will be too dark, but it feels right compared to the whites I felt ‘meh’ about. I do like the pink and black combination. <\/p>\n So, I am working on QSTs<\/a> and, of course, am already behind. I am also cutting for Clue 2<\/a> and will need to start on Clue 3. I spent the day yesterday piecing, so I won’t get too much farther behind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, I started another project! I know it is crazy, but here we are. As usual Bonnie Hunter has started her winter mystery quilt. This year it is inspired by a trip to Iceland and called Lupine & Laughter. I wasn’t going to make the project this year, considering all the other quilts and bags … Continue reading “Starting Lupine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[543,559,270,331],"class_list":["post-68969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-lupine-laughter-mystery-quilt","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68975,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68969\/revisions\/68975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Color](\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251129_200156_wm-sm-300x300.jpg\")
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