Fabric Pull Redux - Birch Point Quilt - The Blanket Statement
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When I was learning to quilt my grandma and my great aunt Leona taught me to put all of the fabric I wished to use in the quilt on a side table in the living room, that got good light, for a week and any fabrics that I noticed during the week were ones that clashed with the group and had to be removed/switched out (or later on I learned I could find a “bridge” fabric to add) and of course once a new fabric is added the 7 days started over. As a kid it was a frustrating process because I just wanted to make a quilt…but as an adult this is a process that makes me feel connected with my family. And I find when I skip this step I don’t like the color harmony of the final quilt. And on the quilts I do use this technique on I always get compliments
Deconstructed the 5x shirt that i had purchased. Almost a yard of fabric in the back alone. I was shocked, but glad.
Speaking of those old rotary wall phones and that click that satisfied or “exclaimed” the end of a good call, my mind’s eye turns back to choices, location and color. My phone was called ebony (classy word for good old standard black),was a rotary dial and hung on our kitchen wall back in 1975. It was the extra long twisted and knotted cord that invited me to twist my fingers making more knots in that cord as I chatted. That made for countless knots that in today’s quilting frenzie could be a liking to sewing thread knots and tension adjustments. Color ways begin with white (or in my experience black). Years have passed and like phones, quilting habits and tricks of the trade have brought new wonder to the quilting patterns we create and enjoy. I learned much about color value today and am grateful to you and Paul for giving it a second go around in filming. Always entertaining and informative!🧵🪡💕😄
Speaking of youngins not understanding “hang up” the phone, I lived in rural Kentucky and we had a PARTY LINE PHONE!! For those who don’t know, that means all 7ish homes on our gravel lane, shared the same phone line. We each had a different phone number and you didn’t hear the neighbors phone ring, but if you wanted to call, when you picked up the phone to dial, if someone else on the lane was on their phone, you could hear and talk (the first 3 way calls?!?!) to them, but you had to wait until they hung up to use your phone. If you were extremely gentle AND your house was quiet, you could listen in without them knowing. This was NOT ideal for a young middle schooler! And we had several preteens on the lane and it didn’t make for the BEST relationships with all of us kids. Ahhh, the memories!
Hi Cathy! I love your color theory & fabric pull videos. As a beginner, I appreciate learning from your full process. When I was getting up the courage to start my first quilt a few months ago I decided to go to a thrift store and pick out some pastel colors. Naive beginner me thought "pastels are easy, what could go wrong?" (Haha!😂) Needless to say, it didn't go well! But now I'm starting to understand why. (I ended up going to my local quilt store and got a pastel rainbow gradient fabric so all the thinking work was done for me and I could jump into that first quilt. Maybe for the next one I'll have the know-how to do it myself). Thank you again for sharing with us!!
Lovely to see a Canadian designer featured! Whoop! It is always so interesting when we recognize something isn’t quite right and then we muddle through to the right combo! Loved to hear your thought process! XO
Hi Cathy! A lot of quilters will call playing with Fabric and trying out color combinations as “auditioning fabric.”
I think every quilt teaches us something. I just came back from a quilt retreat and often the first thing people talk about, when starting on a new quilt is what they would’ve done differently. I think, If you don’t like something, than don’t keep going, change it! It’s better than ending up with something you feel ambivalent about, when you know you could’ve done it better.
I love the life perspective you learned & shared in this one! I always say that I am not a rule breaker, except where quilting is concerned. And I know I need to relax more in life about what “should” be, just like I do in my quilting. Thanks for sharing!
So lovely Cathy!! Love the final fabric choices 👌🏻🥰 Also love your message at the end…if we would just change our perspective on things it would make our lives much more enjoyable! 👏🏻❤️
Because of your videos, I decided to look for men's shirts for quilt making. I never thought of them. I was always looking for sheets and women's prints. I was able to get 2 kitchen garbage bags full of men's shirts for free!!! I'm so excited to decide what quilt to make. There were also some plaids included. Working with the plaids will be a challenge for me. Thanks for your inspiration.
I’ve watched many other quilter videos, and many are knowledgeable, but yours are so homely and different. I really don’t consider myself a quilter, but a maker, because I do a lot more dimensional cloth dolls and other products besides quilts. Anyway, I understand what you mean about the quilt store solids versus the men’s shirt solids and have weeded out most of the fabric store solids from my stash yesterday to give to the local thrift store. I now recognize why I don’t like solids and always gravitate to prints and batiks. I’m also taking your advice and reorganizing what’s left of my 40 years’ worth of fabric collecting. Thank you, Cathy, so much for all the inspiration-Lili
Looking back, I believe quilting would have served me well in dealing with life’s issues, challenges, etc if I had begun the hobby young. But even at an older age, it certainly has added some unexpected components to the process that seems simple in concept. No wonder we wish to pass it forward to the next generation and we treasure those quilts we’ve inherited. A quilt (or quilt project) has a lot to say to us, doesn’t it? 😊
Awesome Cathy, love the color combos .I admire your ability to constantly taking the time and thought process . hope you and family have a wonderful weekend ❤🙆🙏
Another way of describing value is talking about the grey scale. So 100% is black, 0% is white and 50% is medium. You can also take a picture of options and convert the picture to black and white (grey scale) and then looking where things read. It is an amazing experiment to run with things like wall paint chips, tubes of paint, yarn and thread colours etc. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Oh man, you have no idea how much I needed to hear that “what if I applied this to life” idea. I have been struggling with some issues and that one idea helped put things in perspective. ❤ I love it! We really have to meet one day.
Contrast makes a lot of difference. I've learned that the hard way. Sometimes the fabric is just so pretty you can just miss it til you stand back and look. Thanks for video
Ooh, I can't wait for the finished top! Great choices. I was going like, nooo, yesss, nooo, yesss all the way through.😂
Cathy I love the fabric pull videos, as much as I like your humor and all you have to say about it!! I am learning so much from your doing these fabric pull videos. May I suggest you make these fabric pull videos an ongoing thing in your videos. I am not aware of other videos like these. And, in my opinion, there’s a real need for it. Thank you 🙏🏼 for your lovely contribution to my learning and to the quilting community. Urania
Always appreciate your reflections on life! I'm about to finally cut into some fabric that l've had for about 6 years and loved it TOO much !😂 Just gonna do it! My swear words pretty much stay in my head too ❤