Quilt process pic
Jan. 27th, 2015 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreAfter about a year, I'm starting a new quilt-- life just got in the way for a while. A couple of people have asked questions about my process, so I'm going to attempt to blog it.
The first spark of an idea for a quilt can come from a particular fabric (like the dragons years ago), a color combination or a design. The first two weren't happening for me, so I grabbed a magazine from our stash, and the very first design in it jumped out at me-- to my surprise, a simple pinwheel block. Two thoughts struck me: "That'd be great in bolder colors" and "I can try the nifty technique for making half/triangle squares."
Next, fabric. We have a HUGE stash, stuff we've bought plus the remains of a generous gift from another quilter. So I 'shopped' at Laura's apartment. I knew I wanted two or three colors, and for some reason I didn't want any red this time. So I grabbed various piles, sorted by color, and simply pulled out fabrics that spoke to me. In half an hour I had a pile of about 30 fabrics, in shades of yellow, green and blue. Then I started pawing through them, looking for sets of fabrics that played together well. In a few minutes I had three small piles of fabric. I was particularly struck by three bold graphic prints in the same color family, so I went looking for a tiny print that works with them (I almost never use actual solid colors). Here's the result:
The first spark of an idea for a quilt can come from a particular fabric (like the dragons years ago), a color combination or a design. The first two weren't happening for me, so I grabbed a magazine from our stash, and the very first design in it jumped out at me-- to my surprise, a simple pinwheel block. Two thoughts struck me: "That'd be great in bolder colors" and "I can try the nifty technique for making half/triangle squares."
Next, fabric. We have a HUGE stash, stuff we've bought plus the remains of a generous gift from another quilter. So I 'shopped' at Laura's apartment. I knew I wanted two or three colors, and for some reason I didn't want any red this time. So I grabbed various piles, sorted by color, and simply pulled out fabrics that spoke to me. In half an hour I had a pile of about 30 fabrics, in shades of yellow, green and blue. Then I started pawing through them, looking for sets of fabrics that played together well. In a few minutes I had three small piles of fabric. I was particularly struck by three bold graphic prints in the same color family, so I went looking for a tiny print that works with them (I almost never use actual solid colors). Here's the result:
