throwback Thursday

Sharing a quilty memory today.

We're zapping back to 2015 when I attended a quilt workshop with Kathy Doughty, 'Vintage Spin' an inspiring Modern Wedge workshop. 

The workshop was lots of fun, (see back here for a few class pics). Kathy had us lay out all the fabric we had brought with us into warm and cool colour piles, from dark to light. We then focused on looking for 'contrast' when choosing pairs of fabrics for our combos, "contrast is the key and the colour of a fabric is not really known until it is actually playing beside its neighbour!" 

While I used quite a scrappy mix of colours, prints & textures, I did as Kathy had also suggested, and tried to get a subtle colour connection in each of my pairs of fabrics for the individual blocks. 

Large prints, small prints, pastels, jewel colours, 'modern' fabrics, vintage, dark fabrics - it all went into my eclectic mix! A few of my fabrics had a little bit of black in them too, so I used that as my cue and opted for the black & white pin-dot for my centres & binding.

This quilt is still a real favourite of mine, I love all the movement between the blocks, the dotty centers, and all the colours. Those large prints work, the mix of different hues work, the random fabrics from different projects totally works ... maybe perfectly imperfect but hey, that's the charm of using scraps. 

I shook my quilt out & clicked off a few fresh photos today, 

hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with me ...

happy Thursday, Linda