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…
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…
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…
I was excited to work with the red and blue-green fabric I had recently died. I pulled out all my other dyed fabrics in those colors and began to explore my options. This was the starting fabric. As you can see above, it was missing a chunk on the bottom right corner. So I evened…