I added a teal band, then a light aqua dashed border, then a midnight blue band.
So I thought I would, with each bracket I move up in (or not), add another border to my quilt. I’ve had that for over 15 years, and am now just getting to this? That idea - of running in a rut - can apply all over my life, so I’ll leave it right there. I could stop there, but I still had more fabric, so I found out that I can design Medallion Quilts in my software. I loved playing around with it, and came up with the 24-inch star you see at the top of the post. So when I was exploring in my quilt software, I noticed they had a grid that had an eight-point star. Of course, it had to have a star in the middle. Then I wanted to use the colors to move me to the process of designing a quilt. So I called my collection Northern Lights. The range of colors was all over the map, but I really liked the collection from Emporio Armani for Fall 2018, as it was in icy crystalline tones, matching the images of the Northern Lights we’d recently seen in a movie. I was allowed to choose eight fabrics, and as is my usual, I like to see what colors are trending, so I head to the Fall Fashion write-ups to see what colors are coming up on the runways. Today is the day for the voting for the second bracket, so if you are inclined, the info is at the bottom of this post if you want to vote again in this second bracket, titled “Elite Eight.”īut as I really don’t like blogs that pitch one thing after another - and fearful that I was becoming one of those blogs - I decided to tilt this post a bit different way, and show you how having to choose my colors, then come up with a design led me to my progress on my medallion quilt, which I’m calling Northern Star Medallion. Thank you for all who voted for me to send me out of the first bracket into the second. Thank you for entering!Īs most of you know, I was asked to participate in the Mad for Solids 2018, hosted by Paintbrush Studios, using their Painter’s Palette fabrics. To enter the giveaway, please leave me a comment telling me if you’ve ever seen the Northern Lights in the night sky. I’ll let this run for a couple of days, and then draw a winner, who I will notify by email. I will announce this on Instagram and on my blog, but only comments on my blog will count. (I will ship internationally as well as domestic, for those of you overseas who are wondering about that.) If you are a follower of this blog, leave an extra comment to double your chances (and thank you for reading!). I have two stacks of 8 fat quarters, which I’ll give away to two people. I ordered these from Pineapple Fabrics, which is where - until I can persuade my local shop to carry them– I purchase my Painter’s Palette Solids. I really owe you all a quilt or something, but I decided instead to have a little giveaway of Painter’s Palette fabrics, in the exact colors I used for my Northern Star (which is still in process), so you can try them for yourself. Thank you all for your votes and support in the Mad for Solids 2018. I make these little pictures on my phone, using the app Snapseed. (Note to self: I need to finish my ideas on this one)Īnd this little one, Focus, made for their first booth at QuiltCon 2017 from scraps from the first quilt I made for them. Here are the quilts I’ve made with Painter’s Palette Solids: I’m not the only one who is in love with this fabric. It also steams into place well, if the block needs to be flat, or seams eased in. I also like that if I have to “un-sew,” this fabric will hold up to the repeated picking out and re-stitching. My favorite part about this fabric is how it feels in the hand–almost silky, but with a good weight. I don’t need 500 colors to be happy I need enough to make the designs I want to. When I first was considering designing/sewing for them, I asked, “Is your fabric of a good quality?” Painter’s Palette was a new line, made with a bit tighter weave and finer threads, and while the first launch had 80 colors, they now have many more than that (latest card is above). (Of course, if any of you have participated in any of the MQG challenges, you know that even if you get 3 fat quarters for free, you end up buying about more on your own. Why do I keep agreeing to do this? When they do send me fat quarters/half yards of a variety of colors - whatever they are setting up as their parameters - it challenges me to design a quilt using just those fabrics, and I use it as a design challenge. But simply being paid doesn’t keep me coming back. But I jumped in and made them a medallion sort of design. Paintbrush Studios, the people who manufacture this line of solids first contacted me about four years ago, asking me to make them a quilt for Quilt Market. I’m sure you have seen a version of this photo before, as I participated in the Mad for Solids 2018 for Painer’s Palette Solids.
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