Welcome to Day 2 of the Scrap-Basket Bounty Blog Celebration! Thanks to all who visited yesterday. In case you missed that post, you can find it here. To celebrate the release of Scrap-Basket Bounty, published by Martingale, I'll be sharing two or three quilts each day, and giving away copies of my new book and a few other things that I enjoy using when I design, sew, and quilt.
Not everyone approaches scrap quilting the same way. For some, grabbing random pieces of fabric from a paper bag and sewing them in an improvisational way works effectively for them. Scrap quilting for others may involve working with a coordinating pre-cut fabric bundle. Yesterday, I showed you three quilts that use many light background fabrics that contrast with darker main prints. Today is all about using designer collections.
If you’ve been quilting for even a short while, you may anticipate the release of a favorite designer's new collection each season, and make it a point to buy a bit of that collection (or every single print!) as soon as it's available. Fabric designers typically have a signature style, and each collection likely has at least a color or two that blends nicely with previous collections. As you collect these fabrics, you’ll notice over time that new colors are introduced and repeated. Before long, you will have curated your designer stash with fabrics that represent your favorite designer’s style, and you’ll have lots of different prints that you can combine for a very scrappy, but also coordinated, look.
Magnolia Cottage was made with collections by Bonnie and Camille for Moda Fabrics. I used at least two or three prints from each of their first 16 fabric collections. Some of these fabrics are pretty light, and some are pretty dark. Most, though, fall into what I consider to be medium in value, so I separated them into piles of light and dark prints, and paired a light and dark fabric in each block. They contrasted well enough that the pattern emerges, but the quilt has a sweet, vintage look that I really love.
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| MAGNOLIA COTTAGE Photography by Brent Kane |
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| LUMINOUS Photography by Brent Kane |
Luminous was made using several collections by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics. I had fewer really light prints in my stash, so I chose a white solid background that contrasts really well with some of the lighter prints, as well as those nice larger-scale florals and geometric prints. The more blocks I pieced, the more radiant the quilt became, and Luminous seemed an appropriate name for it.
There are several more quilts in Scrap-Basket Bounty that would look just as lovely made with prints from your favorite fabric designer. Martingale has generously offered to send a .pdf copy to the winner of a random drawing. I’ll also send the winner these bits of Kate Spain fabrics cut from my stash to make your own Luminous quilt – you’ll just need a background and border fabrics.
So if you’d like to win a copy of Scrap-Basket Bounty and these amazing fabrics, just leave a comment here and let me know if you have a designer obsession, too. And if so, I’d love to know the name of the designer if you don’t mind sharing. I just may need another designer stash. The giveaway will close on Saturday, September 29, at 10:00 p.m. CDT. The winner will be announced at the end of next week.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you’ll be back tomorrow!
Kim
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