Tuesday 22 November 2011

Colour Coded

I'm sitting in the lounge room watching Tim show Evie a music video on his phone. This week, he is Mum, housewife, chef, cleaner, manager. And I only have one hat to wear. Me. And this week, 'me' just wants to sew my little heart out for my last market of the year. It feels like a little holiday, only having my head in one place. And right now, I'm itching to get to the sewing machine, but I quickly wanted to show you a couple of drawstring quilts I finished over the weekend.
I don't usually make quilts from one designer or fabric line. So it surprised me when I started playing with 5" Children at Play squares, it didn't just naturally fit together for me. I added only a couple of extra colours which looked great when they were in a pile together but laid out, it was all too much (and not just fun scrappy, like I hoped). The orange didn't go with the red or the pink. I didn't like the yellow as much as I thought. And I wasn't sure about the white.


So I just sat there on my studio floor swapping colours around for a couple of hours, feeling completely uninspired. Then I remembered I'd seen a quilt I'd liked at Red Pepper Quilts and I checked over there to see how she had worked it. And with renewed confidence, this is what I ended up with.


I kept the orange, yellow and purple out of the first and the red and pink out of the second. It was a little learning experience for me, learning to work with less colour rather than more. And I was pretty happy with how they turned out! My favourite is definitely the second. Which one would you choose?

5 comments:

  1. Definitely the second, but only because orange and yellow are the best colours EVAR!!! I especially love the bike print.

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  2. I would choose the first one but that is just this week. Next week it could be the second. I choose by what inspires me daily.
    Nice job. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. I love the first one. I too am just learning that sometimes fewer colours work better than more! I am having a run on making scrappy tote bags, and have found just three fabrics, sometimes with a solid, works well for me x

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  4. I like the second one best but they're both gorgeous! Only one thing to focus on... oh that would be so wonderful!! What a great husband you have!

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  5. i love the second one too, though it all looks gorgeous if you ask me! which markets do you sell at?

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I so love your comments! I read all of them and reply when I can. If you don't hear back, I'm lost under a mound of scraps or outside jumping on the trampoline with the kids. Jodi. xx