Gone!

 

OK, so this doesn't look like much to you, but to ME it's awesome. All the Fiestaware is gone, along with all the canisters, and some other stuff destined to be donated. I also donated all my old oil paints and watercolor paints. They filled two huge bins that had been sitting in the middle of the room. The room was full of stuff, the floor was covered with stuff and I hated looking at it. I’ve also got the shredding done. 

I’ve started sewing the blocks for the yellow and blue rail fence quilt. I have an idea of a different way to arrange these blocks, so I’m not sewing them together just yet. 

Retail Therapy

 

I measured my table and realized I needed four more blocks, so I didn't have enough fabric, even after I ordered some. So I went to Quilted Threads and bought some more blues and yellows.

And I also bought four yards of this. Not quite sure what I'm going to do with it, but it was too good to pass up.

It's leaf peeping season here in New England, and it was a lovely drive looking at the fall foliage.

Yellow Too

 

I've always known that I wanted some yellow to play with the blue. Blue and yellow is a very French color combination, and it's really pretty. Last night before I went to bed, I went into the studio and grabbed some yellows and paired them up with some of my blues.

 

Tonight, when I started cutting them into strips I realized I didn't quite have enough, so I placed a small (for me) online order for three more blues and five yellows.

These are the pairs I have so far. Some of the yellows I really liked I didn't have enough of, and some looked too dark.

With these yellows, some of the lighter blues wouldn't work. For what I have planned I need the blues to be the darker fabric in the pair, and I need some good contrast between the two. Some of the pairs in the photo directly above seem a bit forced, like the one on the lower right - birds and cats. The colors are OK, but the scale of the prints seems to me to be too much the same, and the  orangey-yellow to the left of it is almost to bland a design, and perhaps a bit too orange.

At any rate, none of this is carved in stone, but I like what I have so far, and yes, I do have a design in mind. This blue and yellow quilt will be primarily for my dining room table, but I also want it to be useful as a couch quilt.

Bloo

 

I think I figured out what I want to do.

I've cut a pair of WOF strips for each of these fabrics.

And these,

And these. I have more strips to cut, but they won't be blue.