Or. . .

Use the dark blues with the second group.

Oh, please, someone stop me!

I'm dithering.   .   .   .

Addendum:
I finally got myself off the teal and nothing but teal kick since I really didn't have enough dark teal fabrics for sufficient variety, and I pulled a nice selection of truer blue fat quarters to use instead.  So I'm done dithering and worrying and second guessing.  I have my fabrics for the mystery.  Relief!

More photos of mystery fabrics

Ok, Paula, I couldn't refuse a "pretty please"!  And for you, Calico Cat.  Here are group photos of the possibilities, with one additional factor.  I have enough yardage of a brown print that I could use it in place of the gray instead of making the brown scrappy too.  I showed it in the second picture.  Alternately, I could use the scrappy browns.

Pink Group:

 Green Group:

I guess I could also use the darker teals in the second group, if you got down to it.  But enough pictures - what should I do???????!!!!!!!

The mystery train is leaving the station!

WHOO- HOO!  Bonnie Hunter has posted the colors and yardage for her fall mystery quilt and I'm excited!  Her quilts are always fabulous and I'm sure this one will not be an exception - plus she said it was easier than the last few, which is a relief because although I love ya, Bonnie, and I love Orca Bay it about killed me.

So without further ado, here are two, count 'em, two possible color schemes, drawn from yardage in my stash that might end up being backing or borders.

The first one:
Pink substituted for her lime green:

Green for her aqua:

Aqua for her violet::

 Various browns for her single gray:

 Perhaps using these additional darker browns:

 And creamy neutral tone on tones for her black and white prints.  These are lighter:

And these are a bit darker and may play too:

All loosely inspired by this print:

OR:
Green for her green:

 Blue for her blue:

Gold for her violet:

Same browns:

Same neutrals:

 Inspired by this print:

What to do, what to do?  Let me know your preferences - I'm going to stack the fabrics in my sewing room and mull over them for the next month.

Halfway to Chickamauga

All the blocks are joined so now it's time - GULP - to face the mitered border!

Quilting along with the QAL

Here are the latest blocks the Threadhead's QAL:

I'm loving these colors!

On other fronts, I completed all thirty-six of the Chickamauga blocks and pinned them together by row.  Now to put a few hours in this morning joining the rows.  Not looking forward to the striped border because it has to be mitered.  Also not sure why I dread mitered borders so much because they've always turned out fine.  Everybody has a phobia, I guess.

UFO, you've gotta go!

Now that I have finished the Burgoyne Surrounded quilt top, I need to use the time before the start of the new Bonnie Hunter mystery productively, and how more productive could I be but to finish at least one UFO?  So I dug out my half-pieced version of the Chickamauga pattern (so appropriate because of where I live) and started piecing.  I have eight more blocks and then I can assemble it.  I find that the blocks take about 30 minutes each to sew, so I have probably half a day more and then about three days to complete it.  Here's a photo:

 I can't remember where I saw the pattern online (so I can't credit the following picture source, sorry) but I was taken with it enough to save this image of the quilt using the Marcus Civil War Journals fabric:

I see now with them side by side that I tweaked the pattern a little bit on the red blocks.

I had a collection of red-and-white and blue-and-white prints in my stash and that dark Civil War repro print lying at the left edge of the page which worked well for a border, so I dug out a beige print and some backgrounds from the stash closet and shopped for a stripe.  The one I found wasn't exactly what I had in mind but it was available and on sale, and coordinated well with the border.  I think it will work out very well.  Of course I'm making the darned thing bigger than the original so where it had 20 blocks I'm making 36.  As my mom says, I seem to always make quilts the size of football fields!

After this what?  It's not like I don't have a multitude of UFOs to choose from, we'll have to see.

Grandmother's Choice quilt block

This is the latest in the Grandmother's Choice block of the week.  It's another of those blocks which doesn't parse well into the 8" size.  Cutting at odd sizes is required = 1/16" anyone?  I think some of these might be better foundation pieced, as I have in the past.

Here's an EQ mock-up of the blocks so far with my proposed setting:

I'm liking how it's turning out and I love the green/purple/gold color scheme.