Day Twelve #12DaysofColor!

Day Twelve #12DaysofColor!

So It’s the last day peeps! of the year and this series. Thank you so much for tagging along this whole time.
And a BIG thank you to the following companies for sharing their goods with me and some of you soon!

I hope you have enjoyed this series as much as I have! It was a lot of work, but I really was happy to share my love of how color and value changes the look of things with such ease. A lot of you have written so many nice things, and I can’t tell you how wonderful that feels. I think probably what I noticed the most in the comments was that some of you can get intimidated by the choices before you and that’s where you feel stifled.  I think that may be something I do different. I actually never really “think” to much about a block when I am doing it.  I do think “what if” a lot and then play with that, but I don’t overwork it.  As I said a few days ago, I sometimes like a “blurry” block. If the quilt is all the same block, those blurry ones add interest and get you to look a little deeper into the work to see what’s going on.  Also, I love color. A lot of color. You probably guessed that, huh?  When it comes to color, I look at it in a couple of different ways. Sometimes, I look at the contrast between Hot and Cold Colors. You know what I mean right? Hot colors are the reds, oranges, yellows, pinks.  Cool colors are the blues, greens, purples, etc. I also look a lot at the Value of colors, whether they are light, medium, or dark. That is a little trickier, and sometimes they don’t always work out the way I see them in my head. And that is probably the trickiest thing I do. I don’t let things bother me too much, I go with what feels right to me. There is no wrong or right when it comes to quilting.  I believe wrong and right are very important for a great many other things, but not quilting.  I have made plenty of quilts that later down the road, I wonder what was I thinking?

So after that brief look into my head, let’s go onto the last block.  This block is Pat Sloan’s block and her interview (questions were given to her from her readers!) is here, and her block is here.

Here is the Kona block done up in — in Stratosphere and Sunny (the points ended up differently than the original block totally by “mistake.” I was going to make a blue star on a yellow background, but when I plopped them down next to the sewing machine like this, I thought,  hmmmmm….and I tried them out that way. Fell. In. Love.):

Here is the third Anna Maria Horner True Colors  from Free Spirit Block (I am totally gaga over this shade of green, and the “coral” and black in the center…Incredible combo!):

Here is the fourth Blue And White from Michael Miller Block (I love the vibe from that deep Navy background….yep, even though it is navy, I love it!):

Here is the Grunge from Moda block (I was down to two browns after using all of the grunge sample colors I had, so I dug into the scraps for the rest this.  Love it! {note, in the corner four patches, there are actually three different browns…hard to tell, but it’s true!}):

And here are the Aurifil threads of the day (2880 and 2715):

So go ahead and comment as you have been doing. You have until about 1 pm on New Year’s Day Pacific Time.  Tell me about your New Year plans, your opinions on today’s blocks, colors, fabric lines, news of the day, etc. Love hearing everything you have to say.   And remember to come back to the Blue Nickel next year as well.  There will be a lot going on throughout 2014, and I can’t wait to share all the Love of Color, Fabric, and Threads with you!!

Happy New Year!