Ann M Smith New Years Eve Mystery Fabric Strips

I have been at this all day. One would think I would have already started sewing on this already. Or at least pressing or cutting into the fabric!!! Nope, because I believe this is my favorite part! Sorting, organizing and generally playing in my fabric. ;c)

This mystery calls for 3 fabrics and a background.

Fabric #1) (Medium) =Medium Civil War Prints from a swap

Fabric #2) (Pop?) = Dark Civil War Prints from a swap

Fabric #3) (Medium) = Medium Civil War Prints from a swap

Background - Neutrals from a swap.

This quilt is going to be totally, and deliciously, scrappy!

The first thing I had to do was dump out all of my swapped strips onto the table.

Here you have the neutrals on the left, and all the yummy civil war prints on the right.

These are all swaps from quiltville!

The next thing I did was organized the prints into Darkest, Medium, and lightest piles.

Here are the CW prints . . I didn't get a photo of the neutrals. . but those were separated too.

After I seperated them, I grouped them by mystery CLUE.

I had the PERFECT amount of CW strips for a LAP-sized quilt. I wanted to use just the dark and medium neutrals for this quilt and save the lightest ones for Orca Bay.

This worked out pretty perfectly too. I'm going to need to cut about 4 more 2.5" strips from my stash of neutrals. . but I think it is worth it to save all the pretty Xtra LIGHT neutrals for another mystery.

Here are my leftover Xtra light neutrals ;c)

It's midnight now so I'm headed to bed and will start pressing and cutting for this quilt in the morning. Anyone else doing Ann Smith's NYE mystery?

Purses - Ann Smith mystery

I just finished a couple purses/totes. I tried to add them to my dECEMBER list but unfortunately could not finish them until today.

Oh well I still had a very successful december.

Here they are made with scrap civil war prints:

Now, in keeping with the birthday theme. . and until I get some definite orders. . I'm going to be making "me" stuff. It's my birthday month!!!

So I'm now starting the mystery by Ann M Smith in the fabricaholics anonymous yahoo group.

Fabrics I'm using? surprise surprise. . CIVIL WAR PRINTS! lol

I can't help it I love them and just thing they are delicious!

So here they all are . .. Civil War 2.5" strips and Neutral 2.5" strips from a Quiltville swap. I've been itching to use them together in a quilt. This mystery is the perfect opportunity.

In case you're wondering about me and Orca Bay.. I'm waiting just a bit to start that one. I want to wait until I receive my strips from a brown swap on quiltville. which should be at the end of this month. I don't have many blacks and would prefer to use dark brown for that color.

Besides brown IS my favorite color!