You can easily get an idea – but an accurate enough picture to match colors is hard. It’s almost impossible to get an accurate color on a computer screen. I live in a remote rural area, which means I choose a lot of my fabric online. That mixing and matching between collections is one of the things I really enjoy about working with fabrics from one company. The Rainbow Brights collection is all brights, and the Warm Neutrals collection is all browns, creams, greys, rusts, and golds. Most of these collections are out of print now, but I keep fat quarter bundles up to date as collections come and go. It gives a slightly different effect depending on which way you turn the fabric and I like that a lot.ĭixie here uses Rain in yellow for the body, Sketch in daffodil for the tail, and Dream in lemon for the belly. Rain is a really dense tiny raindrop print. Arizona here uses Dream in taupe for the body. I love that it has a little bit of direction to it, rather than a totally random polkadot. Love! Floozy here uses Ziggy in aqua for her body.ĭream is a new collection with small-scale polkadots arrayed in gentle curves. Ziggy is the texture of Sketch – but with zigzags. Buzz here uses Sketch in purple for the body and tail. I think this is my favorite basics collection of them all – it has such a nice hand-drawn quality to it. Sketch is a great collection of crosshatching. I went with tone-on-tone prints from a few different collections. I wanted the texture of the birds to really contrast with the background so I didn’t choose anything dapply or irregular. They’re mostly brights – but I threw in a few neutrals too, just to give your eyes a rest every once in a while. To keep things from getting too crazy, for most of the birds I chose various shades of just one or two colors. Here’s where you can really play around! Birds in nature come in so many different colors – it’s hard to do anything that looks really wrong. I keep it updated with a nice mix and specific colors come and go.
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Update – I now sell a bundle of green batiks perfect for backgrounds. I wanted most of the blocks to kind of blur together, with sharper lines between some of them. I ended up choosing six colors – mostly medium shades – but with a couple of darker and one lighter one thrown in. (They have a lot – did you know that the human eye can distinguish more shades of green than any other color? That’s part of the reason why green is such a hard color to match.) I decided to stick with earthy, natural greens – nothing too bright or with too much yellow. Timeless Treasures has a great line of batiks with all kinds of beautiful patterns – but I stuck to the Tonga Java Blenders – those delicious smears of color without any clearly defined pattern. When I’m going for a dappled smear of color I always choose batiks. I wanted all these wild and crazy colored birds to look like they were sitting in an almost-real tree or hedge – just a smear of varied greens in the background. For the dog quilt and the cat quilt I did just the opposite – solid backgrounds with prints for the faces.įor the bird quilt I decided to use prints everywhere – but I still wanted a clear distinction between the background and the birds. For the Safari Quilt and the Peekaboo Bear Quilt I used a mix of prints for the background, with solids for all the faces. I like big cartoony shapes with smooth curves that are easy to applique and don’t have too many tiny bits.īut I don’t want all my quilts to look exactly the same – so I like to mix things up with the fabrics I choose. The illustration style of my quilts is all very similar.
🙂 Background Fabricsįirst – let’s talk about the background fabrics. I’ve started including links to all the fabrics I used in each pattern, but I think it’s also useful for share why I chose the fabrics I did.
It’s so much fun to play with the colors – trying this and that until you get a combination that really sings.īut sometimes choosing colors can be hard – and a lot of people feel unsure about whether they’re doing it “right.” Every time I release a new quilt pattern I get a ton of emails asking me about the fabrics. Choosing fabric for a quilt is one of my very favorite parts.
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