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It will work

 I wasn't sure if I was going to like my choice of cheddar, so what I've done is put it up on the design wall to see if I could live with it. I believe I like it. I have had it up there for a couple of days now and I think I'll start sewing on it. 
But not tonight (Sunday), Downton Abby is on and I have been waiting for season 3 to start. And nothing can interfere with watching.

UPDATE 1-23-13
IT'S Done






I have started keeping better tally of my stash so now that it is a new year, I think I have a grasp on how to do it now. I wasn't very good at it the last year.
I've used 3 3/4 yards. and did buy 2 yards.
So that makes me 1 3/4 yards to the good.

I think I'm off to a good start


Easy Street Mystery Quilt
Thanks Bonnie

Comments

  1. With a mystery quilt it's a surprise to see how everything goes together at the end. I think yours looks bright and cheerful.

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  2. Love your colors. Your quilt is going to look great!

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  3. I love your cheddar on your Easy Street!! It makes the whites really pop, and it's going to look fantastic in that design. Can't wait to see it all together. :)

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  4. The mystery quilt with your color choices looks great. The subtle gray and white fabrics really makes that blue POP!!

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  5. Every one of these Easy Street quilts looks so different. And I haven't seen one I don't like. Your's appears darker and more Fall like: my colors.

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  6. The colors are great! And I agree with the DA Season 3 watch - nothing can interfere with that, not even quilting LOL

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  7. You may have just convinced me that chedder is actually a color I could use. I have never liked it until today. I love your use of it. Great job!

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  8. Love the colors, a very Southwest feel.

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  9. Love the colors, a very Southwest feel.

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  10. I had to click on your link the moment I saw it! The colors just called to me. The whole color combination is awesome. I love them all. I am a cheddar lover myself and I think it is perfect.

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  11. I love your colours and am glad you like it too. I haven't seen DA yet but have season 1 on layby at the shop!

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  12. Your color choices make a lovely version of Easy Street.

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  13. LOVE your fabric choices! I was too chicken to go with other colors, since this was my first mystery, but I MAY have to make another one and pick my own colors!! Can't wait to see your quilt finished!

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  14. Wow! The pop of color is absolutely gorgeous.

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  15. Love the Cheddar. Really good choice.

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  16. Oh my! I LOVE your color choices! I can't wait to see the finished quilt! Congratulations!

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  17. It looks so beautiful.
    Liebe Grüße Grit from Germany

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  18. That color combo is wonderful! Bonnie will love it with the cheddar! Thanks for visiting my blog and for your kind words! Can't wait to see your quilt completed!

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  19. i LOVE the cheddar. There are a lot of Easy Street quilts in blogland, but I love the ones with the alternative color combinations best.

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  20. Love your color choices. I was boring and went along with suggested colors. I am thinking of doing it again with fall color scheme. I really like yours.

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  21. Oh I really like your color choices! I just might have to make one like this!

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  22. Kat, I LOVE your colors! I couldn't wait to see yours once I saw what you had pulled to use. It is absolutely striking and gorgeous!

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  23. I love your creamy background -- I fear mine is going to be too dark!

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  24. I love the brown color you are using. I stick mine to green.

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  25. I'm loving the different colors we are all playing with. I love orange so I just love yours.

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  26. I'm always amazed at how different a quilt can look by just changing the fabrics. The blue you chose looks very nice with the cheddar blocks.

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  27. I like your color choices and placements very much. Is the gray a solid, or is it that it reads as a solid in the pictures? Very Nice!

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  28. I have a "GASP" on my fabric stash too!! I love the typo. Not making fun of you. I think it is a good description and I can relate. I love your colors in this quilt.

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  29. mmmm yes- those colors will definitly work!!!

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  30. Lovely choice of colours, definately works for me.

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  31. Kat, love your choices of colors ...I found this mystery very easy to do and so much fun. Can't wait for next year :)

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  32. The cheddar is so refreshing in your quilt, stunning color combinations, (I'm still piecing my cheddar leaders & enders bow ties while piecing the triangle units - love that cheddar ;-)

    Can hardly wait to see it finished!
    ~Deb

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