I have asked a group of my very talented friends to share with me their 'current' favorite quilt in my 'Featured Friend' series of articles! As soon as I saw Carolyn's quilts I was intrigued and needed to see more. She put a lot of thought into her quilts and her fabric designs and I find that very inspirational. Carolyn's new book is a wonderful deep dive into how she works and has great tips for you, it is my current favorite read.. (See it HERE)
Listen to my chat with Carolyn on 6/16/14 and 10/7/13 CLICK HERE
(credits to Alexis Wharem of Greenprint Photography).
Hi Pat!
The truth is that I do not really have a favorite quilt, because all of my quilts are special to me for different reasons. I chose this particular quilt--Stripes (link here)--because it was one of the patterns that I created with the launch of my first fabric line, Architextures. It had always been a dream to design fabric, and so the first time sewing with it was a completely surreal experience! It was beyond crazy to see my name on a selvage and to see my drawings on the fabric that I was running under the needle.
With all of my projects, I am curious to explore something, and with this particular quilt, it was a special interest in color that got me thinking. I was interested in creating a two-way color gradation, and so I spent quite a bit of time organizing my fabrics and colors so that they would be changing in a certain way. After getting the fabrics all stacked up and ready to go, I worked through the pile, anxiously awaiting the next color to pop up. I was eager to get all of the blocks completed and see if the design worked out as a whole the way that I'd envisioned it in my mind.
When I think about this project, that's what I think of--working with my fabric for the first time and being crazy curious about how my crazy color scheme would play out in real life.
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