Tuesday, January 27, 2015

patchwork yardage by color


I am trying to work on organizing the studio for a new year and new intentions, trying to make sense of what stays and what goes. I have been thinking it might be worthwhile to piece together fabrics of similar colors into larger cloth.  Hoping this will be easier than dealing with all the loose scraps and starting from scratch for a cloth base for every new idea. Nothing too fussy but maybe lining things up now and then if it makes sense. Not a new idea to work ahead this way, but new for me especially at this scale. I hope to go big.

I think it will smooth out my process a bit if I can work on these larger cloths now and then, preparing base cloth for more detailed stitching. I can cut from them as needed and continue to add to them during the in-between.

Piecing the bits together is a wonderful process in itself, not thinking too hard about what goes where, choosing fabrics based mostly on their color and pressing seams as I go. I have found fabric I forgot I had. I am really hoping this bit of working ahead will help me dive right into an idea with the cloth piecing bit already under way.

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  1. hi susan. i have put strips and bits of cloth, of like colour rather randomly together to make, as jude calls them, 'colour blankets" and have been finding them very useful.they are just small but similar to what you are doing here ...interested to see where it goes on your much larger scale . also. love the winter leaf up top .

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    1. This might be as close as I get to being organized - all the loose ends stitched together. I can already see it might easily end up as a one color quilt top at this larger scale, but I have already cut into it so we will see. Thanks, Linda.

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  2. ah, color blankets... it works for me.

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    1. There might need to be a prints blanket too, I guess that should also be by color - tagged onto one end of the solids blanket. I am finding I like them so much they may as well just become quilts.

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