ALL THE COLORS

Jelly and I went for a nice walk in Lincoln Park this morning.  We started at about 7am and it was dark. There's not too many folks in the park at that time of the day either.   I had to use the flashlight for the first half.  On the way back I encountered a suspicious young man acting strangely so I turned around and backtracked.  He gave me a good scare.  He didn't follow me, but it made me think again about being alone in the park like that.

 Back at the studio, I cut and arranged the rest of the colors for the last of the rows for the Nine-Patch Quilt.

Now it's just making all of the number blocks...

TARA WORKSHOP

I was lucky enough to get into Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Zoom Workshop with Tara Faughnan.  It was limited to about 24 people.  

She talked about her approach to color and some of her strategies.  

We worked on making our own "Bars" quilt.

We started by putting two fabrics together to evoke an emotion - happy, calm, etc.

 She talked to us as a group for the first part, then we were sent off to work on our own.  We met back in small groups of about 7 participants so she could talk to us each individually about our palettes.  After that we all met back together to wind things up.  Overall, it was a good workshop. 

[My iron stopped working about midway through the day.  It didn't just quietly fade away either, it had to spew some horrible yellow water everywhere.]

END OF THE WEEK

Here it is Sunday again.

We went for a walk in Lincoln Park and were entertained by a hungry squirrel who got very close to the dogs while begging for peanuts.

Then back in the studio, I loaded the backing for Trinket Six onto the machine, and then realized I didn't have a batting that would fit.

With nothing further to do, I did Bryan House Quilts project of making a personal color wheel.  It was very fun and educational.  I'll finish it when I have more time, adding tints and shades.  Right now, I'm off to my drawing class at Daniel Smith (where we've been talking about color). 

CHANGE UP

I started moving the blocks around.

I added more color to the Corn block:

Okay, I think I'm ready to sew it all together.

SETTING DECIDED

Wow, I've gone round and round about how to set the blocks.  I used Electric Quilt to try out several options, but then just resorted to putting them up on the wall.

I settled on this:

I had to make a few more blocks and the cornerstones of the black and white.

THE FUN BEGINS

I have all of the parts of the blocks sewn together.

The idea was to have the blocks in more managable parts so I can move them around the design wall easier.

So, here we go...

The design wall

A beginning

Adding more

Trying to get the colors to flow

Looking for problems

Tweaking

Moving a few offensive parts

Okay, where do I stop?

Don't think I like that bright one in the center...

A few more adjustments

Are we getting close yet?

Here's where I stopped because I was satisfied.

Don't hold me to this plan....I could change it completely tomorrow!

But at least now I can start making the blocks....lots of curves yet to sew.