Once again, I decided to cut something up. This is where I started, with an already quilted quilt. I liked it, but realized I liked the left side better than the right. So, after some folding and auditioning, I cut this quilt into two pieces. I set the left portion aside. And started work on…
If you’ve been following me for a while you know that I’ve occasionally cut up quilts and rearranged them. So, when I decided this quilt needed some revision, I decided to give it a go. The starting quilt, Beet Salad. Certainly not terrible, but it wasn’t exciting me either. Usually, when I cut something up I do…
As I started a new quilt, I looked to my hand dyed fabrics for inspiration. I pulled out a few that I thought might spark some interest. Uh, no. It all seemed pretty ugly. But, I was intrigued by the large scale black and white piece. Could I work with something like that? It was…
For the first time I worked on two quilts at the same time, finishing them up very close together. Here’s the latest, Twigs. I’m very happy with it. And here’s a detail shot. The dark twigs were done in the dyeing stage. The white ones were added after piecing, with acrylic paint. As you can see,…
I’m SO happy with my latest quilt, Fragrant Canopy. It started as one piece of fabric which I dyed/printed. That fabric makes up the left two-thirds of the completed quilt. I had great fun working on the details, especially adding some black hand stitching. I love everything about this quilt! Not only the results, but also…
A little bit of black can often add just the right touch to a quilt. And in the case of this piece, I NEEDED to add more black to go with what was already there. I liked the idea of playing up the sharp little lines on the left. But, how to best accomplish that?…
As I continued auditioning fabrics for my latest quilt, I was thinking mostly about value contrast. (Light and dark.) This is where I left off. I could see that it needed some darker values to add some punch. What about some dark green on the right? Yes. I thought it would work. Plus, I…
I’ve been working on incorporating a variety of motifs and colors into one piece of dyed fabric and I finally got one I really love. I rotated it 90 degrees and put it up on the design wall. Now what? I had a lot of fabrics with the right colors, so I pulled them all…
After considering radical changes to my quilt in-progress, I was excited to implement new ideas! This was my initial trial and error placement. The twigs were part of the original version, along with the rust fabrics, but all the blue and black was new. I liked the arrangement and it changed very little. But, it…
I “blame” Pat Pauly. I was watching a video in which she was teaching about color. In it, she was switching fabrics on and off of her design wall, showing how different combinations might work. Or not. It was mesmerizing! I looked across the top of my laptop toward my design wall and KNEW that…