January Mystery Quilt – Colours

Posted on January 8, 2018 | Comments Off on January Mystery Quilt – Colours

Do you thinks these colours will work?

By pulling out the colours from the main Kaffe Fassett border fabric, and using Joen Wolfrom’s colour wheel, this is the result.

My eye went straight to magenta, then green, as the two main colours. They are supposed to be medium strength colour, but I haven’t been able to find enough in the green fabrics (yet!), a couple may be a tad bit too dark. Magenta fabrics were easier to find, but the most difficult to locate was the violet fabrics – perhaps more will come onto the market now that Pantone have named ‘Ultraviolet’ as their colour of the year.

Fabric selection – so far – for the January Mystery Quilt.

If I can’t find any other fabrics for this quilt, these will have to do. I hope they work! What do you think?

RobynsPatch

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Mystery Quilt January 2018

Posted on January 5, 2018 | Comments Off on Mystery Quilt January 2018

Have you had a go at a ‘Mystery Quilt’?

Our group of ‘Pascoe Patcher’s’ get together a couple of times a year for friendship and fun. Our tutor, Pauline, drafts up a quilt and then gives out guidelines. This includes a list of suggested fabrics and pre-cutting requirements.

The January Mystery Quilt requirements now includes samples of her chosen fabrics to help us select our own colour choices. Yikes! Pauline has chosen fabrics in a three colour scheme of orange / green / purple against a suggested white background. So here comes the first Challenge – to find 3 colours that sit well together and with contrast.

A clue! In the requirements is a border fabric – and it contains all three colours! So that’s where I start, by finding somewhere in the stash a multicoloured fabric as the base for the colour scheme – or in a Patchwork shop – but let’s get real here, do I really need an excuse to go to one of those! Oh, and do I have enough of it in the stash?

So here goes, this is the border fabric. Gerry is reserving judgement on this Kaffe Fassett  fabric – it’s very busy and has a strong dominant impact. Now to select the colour scheme!

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Join the Journey – 02

Posted on January 2, 2018 | Comments Off on Join the Journey – 02

I wanted to make a pieced quilt, and quilt it using rulers, in particular with the Westalee quilting rulers – on a domestic sewing machine! Leonie West is inspiring with her passion for the possibilities of her latest creations, and the YouTube videos are so encouraging, it became obvious I just had to do it. After successfully using the Westalee rulers on smaller projects, this would be a welcome step on my personal adventures with quilting.

As a teacher, it was natural to think ‘why not see if other patch workers would also come along and learn. Hence, ‘Join the Journey’ came into fruition.

 

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Join the Journey – 01

Posted on January 2, 2018 | Comments Off on Join the Journey – 01

watermarked(2018-01-02-1224)Meet Gerry!

 

’G’day! Happy New Year, and nice to meet you. I’ve just arrived here – been recently adopted into RobynsPatch and I’m finding my way around and settling in. From what I can see so far, it’s a bit slack, not much going on at all. Think I’ll have to do something about that otherwise it could get very lonely here. So I’ve put on my stern look, wagged a paw and done the hard stare!

So what am I sitting on, you ask! Well it’s a block. No not chocolate – although I’m led to believe there’s a penchant for some of that stuff around here – it seems to be a patchwork block of some sort.

When I’ve sussed it out a bit, I’ll get back to you on what it’s supposed to be. Time to have a poke around and get things happening!

See ya later!

Gerry.

 

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