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.
My takeaway tips from the class were "Contrast is the key" ... and ... "the colour of a fabric is not really known until it is actually playing beside its neighbour!"
Large prints, small prints, pastels, jewel colours, 'modern' fabrics, vintage, dark fabrics - it all went into my eclectic mix! Kathy also suggested to try & get a subtle colour connection in each of my pairs of fabrics for the individual blocks.
This quilt is still a real favourite of mine, I love all the movement between the blocks - thankyou spinning stripes! Those large prints do work, the mix of different hues work, the random fabrics from different projects totally works ... it may be perfectly imperfect but hey, that's the charm of using scraps.
Large prints, small prints, pastels, jewel colours, 'modern' fabrics, vintage, dark fabrics - it all went into my eclectic mix! Kathy also suggested to try & get a subtle colour connection in each of my pairs of fabrics for the individual blocks.
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.
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
9 comments:
I think I might have that pattern somewhere your version of color is really pretty
Thanks Karen. Yes, the pattern for 'Vintage Spin' can be found in Kathy's book "Adding Layers".
Really quite lovely, Linda! Isn't it fun to look back on, and admire, one's "old makes"? I believe you learned your contrast and color lessons well. Seems I've heard something very similar when I took a class with Tara Faughan. Colors are not what they seem until they're placed next to another color. Then, the magic happens. After the workshop with Tara I was hurrying to buy the color "curry," a color I would otherwise have never added to my stash.
That must have been fun to be in Kathy's class. I love your quilt.
I have the book and made enough blocks for two 9 block wall hangings and some of the extra blocks went into another quilt as large daisies. I gave the final leftover blocks to a friend who was making the quilt.
Beautiful!
I have to say that my version of that pattern is one of my favorite quilts and hoping to make another later this year.you are so fortunate to have been able to take her class.
A cheerfu, colourfull start to my day to see your quilt again from 2015. I do have the book with Vintage Sin and have a marker on that particular page, also a quilt named Madness, maybe I will get around to making one of them - one day!!!
Your quilt is super beautiful!! 'Contrast is key' Kathy's tips are so true!!!
What a gorgeous quilt! Once again, you make me want to drop everything I'm working on and try to make a quilt just like yours, you temptress, you! Thanks for sharing the tips about how you selected the fabric pairings to create such successful combinations.
I love this quilt! I used to follow her blog regularly, so it's lovely to see a Kathy Doughty quilt again, and yours is stellar. Her advice about contrast: still so true! Thank you for your visit to an old quilt.
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