My best fabric tips are coming May 3 & 4
Coming up next month is the All-Star Sampler Platter hosted by Global Quilt Connection. I’ll be sharing “Fabric Savvy Secrets” during an online event May 3 and 4. Watch this quick video!
As Lyric said, you can register as an individual or you can sign up your entire quilt group, and it’s reasonably priced either way. I watch whether I’m presenting or not and there is always so much to learn. It’s a great way to get a taste (that’s why it’s called a sampler!) of a technique without a huge investment of time or money.
Individual tickets are $20 and guild prices are based on membership:
You can watch live or you can watch the recordings at your convenience for 72 hours afterward.
In the past I shared about my StarQuar Scrap Quilts technique, which resulted in Star Silhouettes, below.
I talked about patchwork bricks in an earlier sampler. Here is one of the first brick quilts I made, Just Bricks:
And here is Spinster, a different take on bricks:
Something I’ve realized over time is that I don’t really do fancy piecing. I prefer to let the fabric do the work. I think my quilts are interesting but it’s not because they’re complicated to make. It’s because of the way the fabrics work together. Which is what led me to decide on the topic of Fabric Savvy Secrets for the upcoming Sampler Platter.
Every teacher (18 in all) puts together a page of material related to his or her presentation. Everyone registered gets all of that material with their ticket. Above is a teaser of my contribution.
To give you a taste of what I’ll share, here’s another fabric savvy secret:
People agonize about color, but you know what? Color isn’t the most important thing.
If it’s not color, then what is it? Take a look at this quilt that I call Invisible Baskets. I made it from a kit, which is to say that the invisible baskets weren’t really my fault. 🙂
It’s easy to see the flower buds, stems and leaves. But in the alternate blocks are baskets. You probably didn’t see them because there is no contrast between the basket points and the background. Here’s a closer look.
Contrast means there’s a difference between things. In quilts, you want contrast between the foreground and the background, because contrast makes a design visible. In these basket blocks, there isn’t enough contrast to make design visible. So here is the truth:
Contrast is the most important thing for the success of your quilt. Is the design visible?
I think that contrast is responsible for about 90% of your quilt’s success. Color accounts for maybe 10%.
This is the kind of idea I’ll share during the sampler. Practical, useful, applicable in your own work, right away. Learn more here!
I hope to see you there!
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