To be very honest, I don't really like this. Maybe when I get a couple of borders on, I'll like it better. The technique is okay (if you have something in mind for it that'll never be washed)and selecting and trimming and arranging all those little color-squares wasn't all that bad. I also understand how we used the color wheel to select lights and darks and mediums and complimentaries of all these colors, but . . . this is too bright and abstract for me. I don't like that dark curl even though I 'get' the fact that without the darks, it'd just be a confetti of mediums-to-lights. It's too stark.
Guess I'm just stuck in my ways. I do prefer piecing and making a quilt the traditional way using repeated blocks. I can't say I don't like abstracts at all, because most of my quilts have been geometric designs, not picture quilts. I just don't like these colors together one bit. If Anne had led us to the table full of her beautiful hand dyed fabrics and said, "Pick 20 tones and shades you like." I probably wouldn't have selected ANY lime green, neon yellows, no oranges, or mustards. It was probably good to force myself to use these—but I'm not going to hang the finished quilt on my walls!
The quilts I've done for Quiltmaker Magazine are challenging me to expand my color choices, but I'm happier with those fabrics. The carnival themed one in batiks, I like that even though it has oranges and brights, and this latest one I can't show you yet, it's in shades of green, blue, purple on a faintly minty green background. Here's two of the fabrics I've used:
Stay tuned for the reveal on the whole quilt top! I've found I love working in batiks for the whole quilt, and I like the 'hand' of the batik and the color variations you get in one piece of fabric. But I also like tone-on-tones. I'll even admit to liking some calicoes.
Do you find yourself stuck in certain colorways and fabric types? I love scrappy, but tend to grab from a color family to make controlled scrappy. For example, I don't often mix Thimbleberries muted colors with brights or character prints. I've never made a two-color quilt, but would like to some day. Would you? Or is that too bland a quilt?
5 comments:
I keep returning to black and white and red.
But for donation quilts I try to find "boy" and "girl" fabrics or colors that I think kids would like. So that gets me out of my rut.
I have also made two all green quilt tops, partly to use up stash fabrics. I'm 69 and keep thinking that I NEED to use up my stash before I can't use it at all!
Why does everyone think that going out of their color zone, something must be wrong? Your pretty quilt isn't something you love, but at least you tried it!
I loved the warm shades.. yellows, oranges, mustards. I am also into greens and teals. I don't care for blus as much as others.
You make beautiful quilts. Keep inspiring people like myself who will take your patterns and put some of their own color scheme in it.
**I love Red and White quilts, but I am afraid to make one.
Your class wall hanging keeps asking me. "how did you sew me together". Inquiring minds want to know. I'm with you, it's not my style, but interesting and striking just the same. Carline
Your class wall hanging keeps asking me. "how did you sew me together". Inquiring minds want to know. I'm with you, it's not my style, but interesting and striking just the same. Carline
For awhile everything I made was blue and yellow. after seeing the red and white show in NYC last winter I just love that combo for a two color quilt....so elegant and seeing so many in one show....stunning.
Happy sewing, enjoy the quilting journey
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