I am working on sewing the binding of the first Nightingale quilt, but I have to do that during the day, because as I get older it's harder to see hand sewing black fabric with black thread. I needed to be thinking about what I would do next.
Sitting in my studio looking at my stash and the big bins full of scraps, I thought, "What have I been neglecting? What have I been avoiding?" The answer was Brown. It isn't my favorite color, but sometimes it's a good thing to get out of your comfort zone.
So I gathered up my brown fabrics from the scrap bins and the leftover stuff from the big pins and piled it all on my worktable.
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I found some fat quarters of Charley Harper fabrics and included that in my slabs. I loved this little cat!
Very cool. I love the cat, too!
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about brown. Funny thing is, once I start using it or see a brown quilt, I like it!
ReplyDeleteUncoverings, the AQSG annual publication, had an analysis of a survey of modern quilting. The one color that modern quilters almost universally do not like is brown. But brown can be beautiful, as your toasty-warm blocks show.
ReplyDeleteI'm another quilter who doesn't care for brown, however your triangles work very well indeed.
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