Made using the fabric collection Bountiful, by Sharon Holland for Art Gallery Fabrics. This quilt shows that even very pale fabrics have light and dark value differences between them that can be used to define shapes and forms in quilts.
Made to be fat quarter friendly, play with the light and dark color value differences between your chosen fabrics. Use my Ruby Ruler® to judge the subtle value differences.
Using several shades of the same color, rather than larger pieces of a solid color, creates quilt sparkle. The “background” areas of this quilt sparkles to show students how to achieve this affect. Made using my Complete Quilt Designer Pattern Booklet and color value was studied throughout the process by looking through the layout using the Ruby Ruler™.
Made with vintage sheets and a lot of patience. A Wes Anderson-inspired palette and feel.
Made with found 1950’s salesman sample swatches taken from swatch cards and overdyed wool from the thrift store. Inspired by the Tinkertown Museum on the Turquoise Trail in New Mexico.
One of the things I teach my students is that meaningful fabric doesn’t have to be old fabric that has a personal history for you. This quilt, from Wise Craft Quilts, is made with fabric treated to react like sun print paper. All images are things from our family, a haiku my son wrote in Kindergarten, drawings of our cat that my daughter made, sewing and quilting related things of mine, bike cogs belonging to my husband, etc.
Instructions to make this quilt are in my book Wise Craft Quilts.
I explored the process of removing color from Liberty of London Tana Lawn fabrics to create this quilt. Each star is constructed of the same fabric; one half is full color, one half is with some of the color removed.
To create this quilt, I limited myself to only using 2 of my scrap bins, the pink and the cream/white. I pulled randomly from each of those bins as I created this quilt. Vowing to enter my studio sewing instead of being on the computer, I completed a block each day until the full layout was completed. Inspired to do this by my friend Cheryl Arkinson and her concept of “morning make”.
A simple repeating modern flower shape using favorite colors and fabrics.