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…
I enjoyed my last quilt so much that I decided to use the scraps from that one to start the next. With a little editing, I selected these fabrics as my starting point. Of course, I didn’t want this new quilt to look like the previous one, so I sorta shied away from the large…
I loved making this quilt and I’m VERY happy with the results! I dyed all the fabrics for this quilt, except for one. I love how they go together! (Note: I didn’t dye them specifically to go together. They’re ones I’ve dyed over a couple of years, but because I’m often drawn to the same…
I was really happy with the way my latest brown quilt was coming together. It was time to add in some curves. Yes, that was more interesting. Now what? I knew that massing colors together is often effective. So maybe I could add some dark ones near the bottom circle piece. Yes, something along these…
Have you been following along as I’ve used my “Tetris” skills to put this quilt together? I’m calling it Adrenaline Rush. Adrenaline Rush It was challenging at times, but I’m quite happy with the results. I dyed/printed all the fabrics myself! See full details for this piece. UPDATE: This piece got one more radical change. See…
After trying several temporary background colors, I decided to make one side white and one side red. I started with a new temporary background. The purpose of this is so I don’t have to compose against my pure white design wall. It helps me visualize. This was first stab at a new composition. I could…
These were the fabrics I selected as I started on an abstract quilt with NO plan. Although I didn’t have a plan, I did have a goal. I wanted to use the last of my favorite fabric, the navy and yellow grid, and to let it be the star of the show. BTW, can you…
I was running low on a favorite hand dyed fabric when I decided to make a quilt with it. It’s the navy and yellow grid shown below, indicated by the largest arrow. I pulled every other hand dyed fabric that would go with it and this is the selection, shown above. Smaller arrows indicated two…
Remember that ugly exercise that I’ve been considering? This is the portion of my ugly painted which I selected as my inspiration for a small quilt. I played around with the individual elements in the computer and, at one point, accidentally colored the background red. Which I liked! So, I started pulling fabrics and got…
After making Potager Garden, I had quite a few scraps left over, so I decided to use them to make a small quilt. This is what I had to work with. I began to move them around to see how they might fit together. I didn’t like this first version, though. I thought it needed more yellow,…