168 views in 22 minutes…you are definitely liked! I say this over and over you have so many followers because you are undeniably sweet, kind & impossible to be controversial, as you welcome everyone’s opinions. Then again…if anyone was unkind in their comments to you, we would put on our capes and come to your rescue! 😊❤
I was gifted several truly hideous fabrics (in my opinion), and they sat in my stash for several years. The people who gave me the fabric kept asking what I was making with it. After several years of avoiding said fabric i suddenly had a brilliant idea...I could put all of the fabric i hated together in the same quilt! It would free up valuable storage space in my stash, the people who gifted it to me would feel happy i used the fabrics, and I would have the perfect picnic quilt! (I wanted to make a picnic quilt but the idea of putting a beautiful quilt on the ground to get muddy or stained with food made me not want to make one. This was the perfect solution because I didn't care if those awful fabrics got stained or anything. It is a wonderful picnic quilt. It is monstrous with the clashing of so many ugly fabrics but somehow it is so ugly it feels less objectionable. I use it several times a year with my nieces and nephews. ❤since then i have used ugly fabrics i am gifted to make cat mats and doggy blankets. i highly recommend putting all of your hideous fabric together to create something you don't mind using in ways you wouldn't want a gorgeous quilt used.
When I have ugly fabric I put it all in one dye bath, which overdyes the background into a cohesive color, like light blue or pink. Then it looks like it goes together.
Yes! Ugly fabric or fabric that I look at and wonder "why did I ever buy that?" is perfect for gifts, and items that will see hard use, as I am not attached to it - and you never know, it may be to someone else's taste. I've also used it as runner/wall-hanging backing (parts you won't often see). Or maybe use it in a jelly-roll style rug or a toothbrush rug?
Oh my, I’m sitting here laughing my head off. What a great story. For me, I see ugly, hideous fabric or yarn (I crochet too) as a challenge to see if I can somehow find a way to improve its look or maybe simply disguise it well. But you have a fantastic idea here. Thanks for sharing.
I am so glad to have found your channel! I am binge watching your videos :). You are an excellent communicator, and very good teacher. I love your style and ideas. I needed a little resbite from quilting, just a little one lol, so you inspired me to make mason jar cozies for my sour dough starter, and bowl covers. I needed that Kitchenaid cover for sure! Now I'm making some for my daughter. So much fun. Yes, the stash should be used before buying more fabric. Your idea to just pick one fabric you like, and then look for others from your stash that work with that is great advice. Sometimes I think quilters try too hard to make quilts that look just like the one you see in the pictures, but you have none of that same fabric, and not enough color matching confidence to create that quilt from what you have. Anyway my 2 favorite quilts I ever made were made with scraps. A quilt from old jeans and flannel that was a gift for my adult son, who said "this is a wicked awesome quilt mom" . The other one was with all bits of scraps of mostly dark rich colors to look like the night sky, and bright colors that made all the star patterns. I think its because I really didn't need to follow any rules, that I had so much fun making them!
How is it that you pack in SO much practical, valuable information in such a short time, yet I don't feel overwhelmed by it? I'll tell you how -- you're a great teacher! I don't know why you don't yet have a million followers. People are missing out! Thank you, Nikki.
This is great advice. I am new to quilting. I’m working on my second quilt. The first was a kit from Fat Quarter Shop that went with a video series to teach quilting. The second was made from pre-cuts. At this point I’m working on trying to be more accurate in cutting and sewing, so the precuts are great. Ultimately I want to work on being more creative and figuring out what I like to make and the colors I want to use. I don’t think of myself as being very creative or good with color.
100% helpful! Thank you for even just saying - if you don’t like it, don’t use it. Short story time. At hobby lobby last wkd, shopping for a quilt for g-daughter with a 27yo momma with strong opinions. The helpful lady said let me show you what I have sold the most of lately to that age range… she showed me then lowkey judged me for saying “it wouldn’t make me happy to sew with that”… she turned and mumbled “ohhh, there’s limits to what you’re willing to sew with…”. I said “yes I only sew with things that bring me joy.” I infuse my projects with joy and give them with LOVE. No matter unprofessional they look, they seem to give the joy I sewed with ❤
Thank you for this video. I just recently fell down the quilt rabbit hole. I do struggle with putting fabrics together. I am currently trying to use up scraps. Your tips are really helpful.
That was a lot of good stuff! Thank you. I think I may try your way of fabric shopping. I did some retail therapy the other day and came home with a mod podge of fabrics! Mostly single fat quarters of prints and colors I like, but really not many of them "go" together. Oh well, they will still get used. I am building up a new stash of fabrics since all of my stash (and I mean ALL of it) is in storage and heaven only knows when I will get to have it with me! Keep your fingers crossed that it isn't long, because I'm going bonkers here! (LOL!)
I feel like my scrappy quilt tells stories... I will recall how I used these fabrics for this person and made placemats and napkins with these fabrics for this other person, etc. I definitely used a few fabrics that weren't my favorite, but it's okay and I've learned for next time!
Hi Nikki, you have a keen eye for grouping fabrics. The main print should become the "focus" of your quilt or the star of the show. It's fun to audition fabrics to get the look that you want. Find a combination that is pleasing to you and run with it. Another great video, thank you.
I've been thinking I needed some directions on how to select fabric for a quilt, and here you come to rescue. ❤ I have been hand sewing since I was 6 and machine sewing since I was 12, I'll be 61 in about 3 weeks. I've never tried to make a quilt but a dear friend moved in with her mother to care for her in her final days. Melding the 2 households together she needed to find homes for a few things, they had 14 crock pots 😂 and her mother was a quilter. She gifted me several Rubbermaid totes of fabric and several banker boxes of her scrap pieces. I've been going through all of it and not sure what went together. I'm going to save your video and look at my fabric again. My friends mom was given only 6 months but with the care my friend gave her mother she was able to have almost 4 more years with her. Her mother taught her therapist how to quilt and she made 110 baby blankets for the local children's hospital. ❤️
Mom, here :-) I found this very helpful! Explains many of the choices I've made in the past and why I've always tended to avoid traditional fabrics and quilts (though many are very beautiful!)
Yes! Explaining NOT to be too literal! I may have to play that clip of the video over and over again to apply it to sewing, fabric, decorating, and sooooo many other categories! 😇 I’m a free spirit too and I have a hard time finding the right words to get my point across, that I DON’T want cookie cutter styles or fabrics, or clothing Thank youuuu! 🙂
Love your way of choosing fabric. I just finished a scrappy quilt and used whatever scrap suited my fancy at the moment. Thought it would turn out terrible. I really love it. It's for a child and is very similar to an I Spy quilt. I used 1/2 square triangles cut from patches of strips sewn together with a muslin background. My last dinosaur quilt for my great grandson was dinosaurs simply appliqued to a green large vine print. Looks like the dinosaurs are in the jungle. My advice to all is to just let your creative juices flow. Be yourself because you all are beautiful in your own way.
Thank you so very much Nikki! I don't care for the Quilting Police to throw thier "Bible "down our throat! I love your tutorials and have learned lots from you 💗 keep up the great work 👍
Just as having a stash is normalized, we also need to normalize buying fabrics on a per project basis. Buying per project will absolutely help those afraid of making "the wrong choices" build the confidence to mix and match fabrics. If the color combo happens in nature it goes together...Mother Nature knows what she's doing.
The best book which helped me get better at putting fabric together is Alex Andersens's Shopping for Fabric. I still refer to it when I have a question about why something isn't working. Your ideas are pretty much in line with hers. I love playing with colors and advise others that the more you do it the better you get. It's a skill like any other. I "collect" fabrics, mostly from thrift stores, mystery grab bags, castoffs from others, men's shirts, and leftovers from my garment sewing. I find precuts too limited in their palette, and scale of prints so I always add and subtract when using them. By themselves they are harmonious, but to my eye rather boring. I learned from Alex's book how to make things more interesting! Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much. Still getting comfortable with choosing materials. I sometimes love all the wild colors and feel oh that is too much. But you know it is so much fun sewing so I think I will keep at it i just leave out red and orange don’t like them. Also trying to build up a stash want to make the house quilt. Thanks Nikki
When my 3 younger sisters and I were growing up (I’m 66), my grandmother made most of our clothes. For Christmas one year, she gave each of us a lined robe, made with scraps from all the clothes she’d made each of us. My sisters actually held on to their robes and gave them to their daughters, but I had all boys! 😂 I have no clue what happened to my robe.
I have purchased some precuts but only when they are on sale for half off. Then, I have to convince myself that not using all 42 pieces in the same quilt is all right -- that the world will not end if I pick and chose just a few, add a fabric to calm the colors down, or use the jelly roll pieces as binding or borders on a totally different quilt. (When I first started quilting, I didn't have the confidence to think for myself, but I've relaxed enough to realize I have pretty decent instincts and that life will go on if I end up without enough strips and have to cut one from a similar fabric.)
I think like you Nikki when it comes to not using fabric I think is ugly. I just want to sew with pretty fabrics or I don't enjoy the process. I donate this fabric to my local church thrift store. I enjoy choosing my own fabrics. I've purchased some pre-cuts but not many. When I make a scrap quilt I select my colors ahead of time and always select a lot of color. I'm planning on making a two colored (three if you count the low volume fabric) scrap quilt as my next project. I know that I'm going to likely get tired of sewing it at some point because it's only 2 colors so I'll have another quilt with more color in it so I can swap back and forth.
Ugh, deciding colors is so hard. At least with a theme, it makes it easier. I did a Mandelorian helmet quilt for my grandson, so black and shades of gray were easier, but still sorta hard! I can't just go to the store and pick out fabric for no particular reason. I need structure! 😂
Pike: The phrase "coming down the pike" comes from the idea of traveling along a turnpike, a toll road that connected cities and towns before highways. I just lifted that definition off the internet.
I have fabric and no patterns. Lol I need patterns for a specific number of solids and prints. Definitely a beginner .. I need one of those ladies for my wonky houses ❤
I learned the hard way…not to put fabrics I don’t like or love in a quilt! And yes, that’s what I see every time I look at the quilt! Fortunately I love the other side, so I can just turn it over!!
I trust my color grouping but I have trouble matching prints. It is obvious to vary them (not all large prints, not all tiny prints, etc.) but when I try it, I second guess my choices and I just usually stop completely.
Great conversation. I have a great grandbaby shower in 6 weeks. We are getting a little girl. From the registry, everything is unisex. Beyond neutral. I mean no color anywhere.... I am strongly thinking about going rogue and giving this little girl some color. The indecion is real and I have little time to stall. Starting with a pallet is very helpful. Thanks.
@@PinCutSew sad to say I had to look Gwen up. I am a knitter who sewed then wandered over to quilting. I first saw Kaffe’s knitting then his quilts. Gwen’s quilting reminds me of collage in fabric. Unfortunately I don’t “understand “ it so when I try it just looks a mess. LOL a
I totally agree with the ‘ugly’ fabric view! I say: “don’t use it!” Because your eye will go directly to it! And you will not eventually like it. I say give it away to someone who’ll like it and use it.
I donate fabric if I have had it for a year and not used it. I got over trying to use every piece of fabric I have, especially if someone gave it to me and I really don't like it. I just donate it.
I loooove scrappy quilts and would buy odd bits of fabric I liked and they would always turn out fine. Then people started giving me fabric. The next quilt started to go wrong straight away. I now see that when I chose the fabrics they all just naturally jived but donated fabric just made the whole thing look like a dog’s dinner. I need to get rid of the weird ones 😂
I am like you; I NEVER go fabric shopping unless I have a specific plan for that fabric. I ONLY buy fabric when I have a specific project for which it will be used. Fabric is too expensive to just sit in a tub or on a shelf and not be used. That seems so wasteful to me! Also, our tastes change over time and the fabrics we loved a couple of years ago may not be fabrics we love today. So, it is best to use them as we buy them, which is how it should be. I have a small, manageable stash, and I add to it every time I make a project, which is just fine by me. 🙂
The only ugly fabric I don’t use at all is anything yellow lol It literally gives me ptsd from my childhood. I’m sorting scrap fabrics to make a scrappy quilt, no yellow at all.
Ahhhh, I am HORRIBLE at picking fabric for any quilt. As for scrap quilts, they are made from the scraps I have saved over the last 40 years (YIKES, REALLY??? 40 years??) from making clothing for my children. Every scrap has a memory. The quilts don't meet the "rules of color theory," but my kids sure do love them. To me, that is all that matters.
My mom also made our clothes for us when we were little. She would give the scraps to my Grandma who would sit in her chair and cut and put together crazy quilt tops. I was given one of those tops but unfortunately they are coming apart so I’ll have to reinforce them somehow. But I can look at each scrap and remember the dress or shorts or shirt that you my mom made for me. I also have fond memories of my Grandma sitting in her rocking chair putting those tops together! So special!
Lol. I was given a kit that someone made with tumbler blocks with their scraps. They were cut on accu quilt so how hard could it be. And backing fabric was in there. I put together 3 or 4 rows and just stared at it. Ugly ugly ugly.....put back in the bag and passing it on to goodwill.😅
I often wonder what the old quilters of the past, who used scraps to make quilts as a necessity for winter would make of quilting today, of us buying all this brand new expensive yardage, just to cut it up to sew it back together again 😂 Would they love the variety, colours and creativeness in it, or would they be aghast and see it as a waste of good fabric?
I’m always wondering what they would think of all the people paying for bottled water and fancy coffee. Probably the same as all the matching fabric. They would think we all lost our minds. 😂
My biggest problem is choosing fabrics that are too light and disappear into the background. This is my problem with layer cakes, half of them are way too light.
168 views in 22 minutes…you are definitely liked! I say this over and over you have so many followers because you are undeniably sweet, kind & impossible to be controversial, as you welcome everyone’s opinions. Then again…if anyone was unkind in their comments to you, we would put on our capes and come to your rescue! 😊❤
Ha, thank you! I’m thankful to receive very, very few unkind comments 🫶🏻
I was gifted several truly hideous fabrics (in my opinion), and they sat in my stash for several years. The people who gave me the fabric kept asking what I was making with it. After several years of avoiding said fabric i suddenly had a brilliant idea...I could put all of the fabric i hated together in the same quilt! It would free up valuable storage space in my stash, the people who gifted it to me would feel happy i used the fabrics, and I would have the perfect picnic quilt! (I wanted to make a picnic quilt but the idea of putting a beautiful quilt on the ground to get muddy or stained with food made me not want to make one. This was the perfect solution because I didn't care if those awful fabrics got stained or anything. It is a wonderful picnic quilt. It is monstrous with the clashing of so many ugly fabrics but somehow it is so ugly it feels less objectionable. I use it several times a year with my nieces and nephews. ❤since then i have used ugly fabrics i am gifted to make cat mats and doggy blankets. i highly recommend putting all of your hideous fabric together to create something you don't mind using in ways you wouldn't want a gorgeous quilt used.
What a great solution. “So ugly, it’s less objectionable”, LOL
When I have ugly fabric I put it all in one dye bath, which overdyes the background into a cohesive color, like light blue or pink. Then it looks like it goes together.
@@PiNkSpRinkLe1 what a great idea!
Yes! Ugly fabric or fabric that I look at and wonder "why did I ever buy that?" is perfect for gifts, and items that will see hard use, as I am not attached to it - and you never know, it may be to someone else's taste. I've also used it as runner/wall-hanging backing (parts you won't often see). Or maybe use it in a jelly-roll style rug or a toothbrush rug?
Oh my, I’m sitting here laughing my head off. What a great story. For me, I see ugly, hideous fabric or yarn (I crochet too) as a challenge to see if I can somehow find a way to improve its look or maybe simply disguise it well. But you have a fantastic idea here. Thanks for sharing.
I am so glad to have found your channel! I am binge watching your videos :). You are an excellent communicator, and very good teacher. I love your style and ideas. I needed a little resbite from quilting, just a little one lol, so you inspired me to make mason jar cozies for my sour dough starter, and bowl covers. I needed that Kitchenaid cover for sure! Now I'm making some for my daughter. So much fun. Yes, the stash should be used before buying more fabric. Your idea to just pick one fabric you like, and then look for others from your stash that work with that is great advice. Sometimes I think quilters try too hard to make quilts that look just like the one you see in the pictures, but you have none of that same fabric, and not enough color matching confidence to create that quilt from what you have. Anyway my 2 favorite quilts I ever made were made with scraps. A quilt from old jeans and flannel that was a gift for my adult son, who said "this is a wicked awesome quilt mom" . The other one was with all bits of scraps of mostly dark rich colors to look like the night sky, and bright colors that made all the star patterns. I think its because I really didn't need to follow any rules, that I had so much fun making them!
Love this. Don't go shopping just to go shopping and shop your stash first. Excellent, level headed advice!
How is it that you pack in SO much practical, valuable information in such a short time, yet I don't feel overwhelmed by it? I'll tell you how -- you're a great teacher!
I don't know why you don't yet have a million followers. People are missing out!
Thank you, Nikki.
Aw thank you 🤗
I totally agree….I also loved the ‘Focus, Nikki!’ Part,
This is great advice. I am new to quilting. I’m working on my second quilt. The first was a kit from Fat Quarter Shop that went with a video series to teach quilting. The second was made from pre-cuts. At this point I’m working on trying to be more accurate in cutting and sewing, so the precuts are great. Ultimately I want to work on being more creative and figuring out what I like to make and the colors I want to use. I don’t think of myself as being very creative or good with color.
100% helpful! Thank you for even just saying - if you don’t like it, don’t use it. Short story time. At hobby lobby last wkd, shopping for a quilt for g-daughter with a 27yo momma with strong opinions. The helpful lady said let me show you what I have sold the most of lately to that age range… she showed me then lowkey judged me for saying “it wouldn’t make me happy to sew with that”… she turned and mumbled “ohhh, there’s limits to what you’re willing to sew with…”. I said “yes I only sew with things that bring me joy.” I infuse my projects with joy and give them with LOVE. No matter unprofessional they look, they seem to give the joy I sewed with ❤
I totally agree and I think this is why I teach instead of sew for others for income - I cannot enjoy sewing with fabrics I don’t like 😂
Great information and everyone’s comments very helpful😊👏
Your suggestions are excellent. I agree that following your personal choices will always bring the joy we are looking for 😊
Thank you for this video. I just recently fell down the quilt rabbit hole. I do struggle with putting fabrics together. I am currently trying to use up scraps. Your tips are really helpful.
This is one of the most informative tutorials I have seen! Thank you, Nikki!
That was a lot of good stuff! Thank you. I think I may try your way of fabric shopping. I did some retail therapy the other day and came home with a mod podge of fabrics! Mostly single fat quarters of prints and colors I like, but really not many of them "go" together. Oh well, they will still get used. I am building up a new stash of fabrics since all of my stash (and I mean ALL of it) is in storage and heaven only knows when I will get to have it with me! Keep your fingers crossed that it isn't long, because I'm going bonkers here! (LOL!)
I feel like my scrappy quilt tells stories... I will recall how I used these fabrics for this person and made placemats and napkins with these fabrics for this other person, etc. I definitely used a few fabrics that weren't my favorite, but it's okay and I've learned for next time!
Hi Nikki, you have a keen eye for grouping fabrics. The main print should become the "focus" of your quilt or the star of the show. It's fun to audition fabrics to get the look that you want. Find a combination that is pleasing to you and run with it. Another great video, thank you.
Nice new bright lights!
This video is great, very down to earth and useful tips. Thank you!
Nikki, your practical hints are spot on. Great reminders for me.If I like it, I like it.
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I've been thinking I needed some directions on how to select fabric for a quilt, and here you come to rescue. ❤ I have been hand sewing since I was 6 and machine sewing since I was 12, I'll be 61 in about 3 weeks. I've never tried to make a quilt but a dear friend moved in with her mother to care for her in her final days. Melding the 2 households together she needed to find homes for a few things, they had 14 crock pots 😂 and her mother was a quilter. She gifted me several Rubbermaid totes of fabric and several banker boxes of her scrap pieces. I've been going through all of it and not sure what went together. I'm going to save your video and look at my fabric again. My friends mom was given only 6 months but with the care my friend gave her mother she was able to have almost 4 more years with her. Her mother taught her therapist how to quilt and she made 110 baby blankets for the local children's hospital. ❤️
Sounds like her mother was a giving person. Hope you have yourself a great Birthday !
Mom, here :-) I found this very helpful! Explains many of the choices I've made in the past and why I've always tended to avoid traditional fabrics and quilts (though many are very beautiful!)
You inspire so much confidence! Thank you!
Yes! Explaining NOT to be too literal!
I may have to play that clip of the video over and over again to apply it to sewing, fabric, decorating, and sooooo many other categories! 😇
I’m a free spirit too and I have a hard time finding the right words to get my point across, that I DON’T want cookie cutter styles or fabrics, or clothing
Thank youuuu! 🙂
Love your way of choosing fabric. I just finished a scrappy quilt and used whatever scrap suited my fancy at the moment. Thought it would turn out terrible. I really love it. It's for a child and is very similar to an I Spy quilt. I used 1/2 square triangles cut from patches of strips sewn together with a muslin background. My last dinosaur quilt for my great grandson was dinosaurs simply appliqued to a green large vine print. Looks like the dinosaurs are in the jungle. My advice to all is to just let your creative juices flow. Be yourself because you all are beautiful in your own way.
I have never quilted but I am really thinking about starting and your ideas and tips help me tremendously. Thank You!! Love this video
Thank you so very much Nikki! I don't care for the Quilting Police to throw thier "Bible "down our throat! I love your tutorials and have learned lots from you 💗 keep up the great work 👍
I totally agree about the 'scraps' and some tutors bringing out their fat 1/4's, they aren't scraps they're fat 1/4's.
Just as having a stash is normalized, we also need to normalize buying fabrics on a per project basis. Buying per project will absolutely help those afraid of making "the wrong choices" build the confidence to mix and match fabrics.
If the color combo happens in nature it goes together...Mother Nature knows what she's doing.
Good point!
These are all really great tips, thank you!
Hallelujah girl! You sound exactly like me with fabric choices and about clothes.
I love your energy and observations! Thanks
So enjoyed this video - I think you say some very wise things! ❤👍from Somerset UK
Great advice I do struggle with fabric choices.
Your fish quilt is looks AMAZING 🤗 I am thoroughly enjoying making mine🐟🧵👏🏼
I really love all of your advice & how out of the box you are❤❤
Thank you for this video, it is so helpful! 🥰
Such good common sense advice🎉
Thanks for the helpful ideas.
The best book which helped me get better at putting fabric together is Alex Andersens's Shopping for Fabric. I still refer to it when I have a question about why something isn't working. Your ideas are pretty much in line with hers. I love playing with colors and advise others that the more you do it the better you get. It's a skill like any other. I "collect" fabrics, mostly from thrift stores, mystery grab bags, castoffs from others, men's shirts, and leftovers from my garment sewing. I find precuts too limited in their palette, and scale of prints so I always add and subtract when using them. By themselves they are harmonious, but to my eye rather boring. I learned from Alex's book how to make things more interesting! Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much. Still getting comfortable with choosing materials. I sometimes love all the wild colors and feel oh that is too much. But you know it is so much fun sewing so I think I will keep at it i just leave out red and orange don’t like them. Also trying to build up a stash want to make the house quilt. Thanks Nikki
You are 100% correct. If you love it that's what matters!
When my 3 younger sisters and I were growing up (I’m 66), my grandmother made most of our clothes. For Christmas one year, she gave each of us a lined robe, made with scraps from all the clothes she’d made each of us. My sisters actually held on to their robes and gave them to their daughters, but I had all boys! 😂 I have no clue what happened to my robe.
Loved this thanks😊
I have purchased some precuts but only when they are on sale for half off. Then, I have to convince myself that not using all 42 pieces in the same quilt is all right -- that the world will not end if I pick and chose just a few, add a fabric to calm the colors down, or use the jelly roll pieces as binding or borders on a totally different quilt. (When I first started quilting, I didn't have the confidence to think for myself, but I've relaxed enough to realize I have pretty decent instincts and that life will go on if I end up without enough strips and have to cut one from a similar fabric.)
I use fabric given to me by others and try to use a calm background fabric for a controlled scrappy look
i luv ur site.u march to ur own drummer...soooo inspiring. thanx
I absolutely love how you think
Very good advice!!
I agree with everything you said. Especially your comment about ugly fabric. I give it away and never regret it. Thanks Nicki-Claudia
I think like you Nikki when it comes to not using fabric I think is ugly. I just want to sew with pretty fabrics or I don't enjoy the process. I donate this fabric to my local church thrift store.
I enjoy choosing my own fabrics. I've purchased some pre-cuts but not many. When I make a scrap quilt I select my colors ahead of time and always select a lot of color. I'm planning on making a two colored (three if you count the low volume fabric) scrap quilt as my next project. I know that I'm going to likely get tired of sewing it at some point because it's only 2 colors so I'll have another quilt with more color in it so I can swap back and forth.
Original " coming down the pike" but either is acceptable and mean the same thing.
Thanks for all the confidence building info
Ugh, deciding colors is so hard. At least with a theme, it makes it easier. I did a Mandelorian helmet quilt for my grandson, so black and shades of gray were easier, but still sorta hard! I can't just go to the store and pick out fabric for no particular reason. I need structure! 😂
To everything you have said….amen sista
Pike: The phrase "coming down the pike" comes from the idea of traveling along a turnpike, a toll road that connected cities and towns before highways. I just lifted that definition off the internet.
Ohhhh interesting, makes sense
Loved the quilt on the ending of the video. Do you have a video on making this quilt?
There is a pattern out there by someone else for a quilt like that called Birds of a Feather 👍🏻
I have fabric and no patterns. Lol I need patterns for a specific number of solids and prints. Definitely a beginner .. I need one of those ladies for my wonky houses ❤
I learned the hard way…not to put fabrics I don’t like or love in a quilt! And yes, that’s what I see every time I look at the quilt! Fortunately I love the other side, so I can just turn it over!!
I trust my color grouping but I have trouble matching prints. It is obvious to vary them (not all large prints, not all tiny prints, etc.) but when I try it, I second guess my choices and I just usually stop completely.
Great conversation. I have a great grandbaby shower in 6 weeks. We are getting a little girl. From the registry, everything is unisex. Beyond neutral. I mean no color anywhere.... I am strongly thinking about going rogue and giving this little girl some color. The indecion is real and I have little time to stall. Starting with a pallet is very helpful. Thanks.
You could do a mostly-neutral quilt with a big applique flower for a burst of color!
Babies need color for stimulation! Go for it.
This is a great topic! Is your hero Kaffe Fasset? I love his quilts! So much color!
I am a fan! My quilt hero is probably Gwen Marsten!
@@PinCutSew sad to say I had to look Gwen up. I am a knitter who sewed then wandered over to quilting. I first saw Kaffe’s knitting then his quilts. Gwen’s quilting reminds me of collage in fabric. Unfortunately I don’t “understand “ it so when I try it just looks a mess. LOL a
Ohhhhh you’re so smart (or with a Boston accent smahrt) 😊
I totally agree with the ‘ugly’ fabric view! I say: “don’t use it!” Because your eye will go directly to it! And you will not eventually like it. I say give it away to someone who’ll like it and use it.
I've often thought that even with scrappy quilts, why the heck would your ugly fabric in them 🤷🏼
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I donate fabric if I have had it for a year and not used it. I got over trying to use every piece of fabric I have, especially if someone gave it to me and I really don't like it. I just donate it.
I loooove scrappy quilts and would buy odd bits of fabric I liked and they would always turn out fine. Then people started giving me fabric. The next quilt started to go wrong straight away. I now see that when I chose the fabrics they all just naturally jived but donated fabric just made the whole thing look like a dog’s dinner. I need to get rid of the weird ones 😂
I am like you; I NEVER go fabric shopping unless I have a specific plan for that fabric. I ONLY buy fabric when I have a specific project for which it will be used. Fabric is too expensive to just sit in a tub or on a shelf and not be used. That seems so wasteful to me! Also, our tastes change over time and the fabrics we loved a couple of years ago may not be fabrics we love today. So, it is best to use them as we buy them, which is how it should be. I have a small, manageable stash, and I add to it every time I make a project, which is just fine by me. 🙂
Yes you’re so right, we won’t love it as much if it sits for two years!
The only ugly fabric I don’t use at all is anything yellow lol It literally gives me ptsd from my childhood. I’m sorting scrap fabrics to make a scrappy quilt, no yellow at all.
Haha too funny!
How funny! My color is an aged white that looks like it turned yellow! From having to wear school uniforms.
@@ritamclaughlin9681 hahaha!
Ahhhh, I am HORRIBLE at picking fabric for any quilt. As for scrap quilts, they are made from the scraps I have saved over the last 40 years (YIKES, REALLY??? 40 years??) from making clothing for my children. Every scrap has a memory. The quilts don't meet the "rules of color theory," but my kids sure do love them. To me, that is all that matters.
My mom also made our clothes for us when we were little. She would give the scraps to my Grandma who would sit in her chair and cut and put together crazy quilt tops. I was given one of those tops but unfortunately they are coming apart so I’ll have to reinforce them somehow. But I can look at each scrap and remember the dress or shorts or shirt that you my mom made for me. I also have fond memories of my Grandma sitting in her rocking chair putting those tops together! So special!
Lol. I was given a kit that someone made with tumbler blocks with their scraps. They were cut on accu quilt so how hard could it be. And backing fabric was in there. I put together 3 or 4 rows and just stared at it. Ugly ugly ugly.....put back in the bag and passing it on to goodwill.😅
Haha good for you.
I often wonder what the old quilters of the past, who used scraps to make quilts as a necessity for winter would make of quilting today, of us buying all this brand new expensive yardage, just to cut it up to sew it back together again 😂 Would they love the variety, colours and creativeness in it, or would they be aghast and see it as a waste of good fabric?
That’s a great question, I wonder too!
I’m always wondering what they would think of all the people paying for bottled water and fancy coffee. Probably the same as all the matching fabric. They would think we all lost our minds. 😂
My biggest problem is choosing fabrics that are too light and disappear into the background. This is my problem with layer cakes, half of them are way too light.
Trading spaces was a fun idea for a show but from what I saw, it didn't really work. Yeah, they just went WAY overboard.
Nooooo....I want it to be your fault, not my fault, if fabrics didn't go together 😅
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