The Dark and the Light Sides…….
So while everyone else in the Quilting Universe was at QuiltCon this past weekend, I was here at home……and spent far too much time on Instagram trying to keep up!
But I also got to mess around with these two bundles of painterly fat quarters that the awesome peeps at Windham Fabrics sent me awhile back. Two Very Different, but yet very similar lines. The one on the left is dark and somber, and the one on the right is bright, cheerful, and carefree.
Actually, I was playing with Sunshine Serenade last week. If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen these little bags I was making with these prints. I never get tired of making these bags designed by my friend Monica. They are super easy and quick. I resized these to be a bit smaller than her original directions to fit what I need them for.
I don’t know how well you can see it, but many of the prints in this line have glittery bits….which makes is seem even more like 1985 to me. These fabrics remind me so much of the 80’s, I can’t believe it!
And now to the dark side….. Black and White by Marcia Derse, who I just discovered lives on the same island that my wife, Linda, grew up on! Small world! Any way, there were less prints in this collection and it is much less colorful…
Much less colorful…..
I decided that I wanted to try and see how this line would work with my United Colors pattern. I knew that it would be different trying work a pattern that is actually based on hot and warm colors and light and dark values with fabric that wasn’t actually hot or cold….and not too much contrast in the dark or light category.
As I experimented, I found that I really enjoyed the process. Some blocks “read” much better than others, something that I confess I always find that fascinating as I look for the pattern in the not so obvious blocks.
Actually the “bluer, plainer” greys are from the first group, Sunshine Serenade, but they aren’t all that sunny, are they? And just wait until you see what I did with the block printed red canvas that I picked up at some garage sale or something (I actually have no idea where the red fabric came from …but it added just the right touch to this quilt!
I want to wait to show you this finished quilt top until after my presentation at the Portland Modern Quilt Guild next month in Portland, Oregon. I want to show them first in person…
Now I need to get back to whatever I was supposed to be doing before I started this post….There is a long list, so I kinda get to pick….kinda….
melissa
You are so busy! I’m always impressed with how much you do get accomplished.
Carli
Wow,I see a very dramatic Quilt coming up. Yahoo!
Anne
Hey Scott. Wish you’d been at QuiltCon. It would have been fun to reconnect.