Spring Market was in May and I am still working on all of the commitments that I made.
I do have a tendency to over commit. (No not me!)
Robert Kaufman fabrics sent me fabric from a new line beautiful batik fabrics that will be coming out soon. They wanted me to remake my Bright Star quilt pattern in their upcoming line. This pattern has two blocks, the Log block and the Flower block that are paper or foundation pieced and then my 6″ Quick Curves template is used..
They sent me the entire line of fabric and I then had to choose which colors to use. I narrowed it down to these fabrics. You can see the pattern cover in front of the fabrics.
I sorted the fabrics into color groups. Once I have all of the greens, yellows, blues, et cetera, into groups I sort them from darker to lighter. This helps me narrow down the choices and gives me some organization. I do say some, because it can take me a long time to find the right fit. I am looking for enough contrast so that the fabrics show up but not so much that any one color jumps out.
But depending on the look that you want, a lot of contrast can be a good thing. It can depend on how you want the finished project to look.
I tjem print out copies of the blocks that I will be making and cut little pieces of fabric and paste them on the test blocks to see how they colors look together. I made about three test blocks of the Log block, but it took me about 10 test blocks of the Flower block to find the look that I wanted.
After making my decision on the fabric choices I sew one of each block.
Only after I have sewn a test block and decide that I like it, do I then cut the remainder of the fabric for the rest of the quilt. Even then, it can still be a surprise when I put all of the blocks together to see the finished project.
I completed the top and sent it away to be quilted. I look forward to posting a photo when I receive one of the finished project.
Yummy batiks!
Elisa
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Beautiful so far! Looking forward to the finished quilt. How fun to have all those gorgeous batiks to work with. I am working on that in my stash!
Elisa, I finally got around to googling your name and here you are! How are things going? I read thru some of your blogs and was very sad I am not there with you! ha. But, I am here, in concrete city, sweating. Did get to Colorado -near Vail- last week for family reunion. HAd a great time…did wish it was Glacier National Park…hope to go there next summer for 25th anniversary…do you still live inKalispell/ I’ll call soon. Love and prayers, Kathie O