It's the most wonderful time of the year - Bonnie Hunter's Annual Mystery. This year's mystery, Chilhowie, will be another epic project and while I certainly don't NEED, a new project, this is a project just for me that I wanted to undertake.
Unfortunately for me, Bonnie wanted to use orange as her primary colour, with this photo being one of the sources of her inspiration. These irises are beautiful, but there was something about orange being a dominant colour. If you want to see her introduction to Chilhowie, you can find it here: Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville - Chilhowie Mystery
My Bonnie Hunter mystery started last year and utilized the colour orange and my local guild mystery quilt also contained orange. I wanted something OTHER than orange as my dominant colour!
I took the advice of a great friend to look in my local quilt shop (If I must, oh darn) for a multicoloured fabric that I found inspiring and draw my colours from that.
I found this fabric line from Northcott - Modern Love by Deborah Edwards. It was carma! Deborah had come to speak at our guild last season.
No ORANGE! There was something positive and beautiful that spoke to me. I then went to my new favourite fabric line, also by Northcott - Chroma. You can see the full line here: Northcott Chroma
All of my colours came from this line and were drawn from the inspiration fabric:
