Fabric for watercolor quilt
MaleQuilter
having a problem building up a decent palette to get started.
A 1993 book on the subject by Pat Magaret and Donna Slusser suggest
that a palette be composed of two inch pieces of fabric with a wide
range of colors, contrasting values and intensities, a variety of
scales, and asymmetrical lines and design.
My wife has been quilting for many years and I was anxious to go
through her scrap collection but discovered a problem. Most of her
fabric scraps had small repeating patterns, were of color on color
designs, or had a very small symmetrical pattern. There were very few
pieces of large floral patterns or paisleys that seem to be best for
watercolor quilts.
The authors of the book suggested finding fabric by joining a mail-
order fabric club.
Does anyone have experience with a mail-order fabric club?
Does anyone have other suggestions about how to accumulate a lot of
small pieces of a wide range of appropriate fabric?
Jerry in North Alabama
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Anne Rogers
> small pieces of a wide range of appropriate fabric?
you ask on here! Jessamy's requirements were quite different to yours, she
wanted those small patterns and tone on tones, she's built up quite a few
scraps for her hexagon project, you could do the same, I think people would
be particularly keen to help a male quilter!
I couldn't quite get what you mean though, are you saying the fabrics should
be of a single colour? Perhaps if you could put a picture up of what you
need, or find an existing link, I'm not familiar with watercolour quilts, so
I'm struggling to get a feel for your needs.
Anne
Anne Rogers
http://www.kathkwilts.com/lessons/watercolor.html
if you look at her page on strip piecing, she does use florals.
Anne
Jessamy
enough would take forever!
so.. which size do you want and which colours? I have loads of larger and
or busier scraps and it's no hardship for me to cut 2 instead of 1 square
as I dig through the scraps and the part of my stash I haven't had yet :-)
please tell us all what you need and please send me your snail mail
privately (as you don't really want half the world to see your addy *here*
hehehe)
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Jessamy
Queen of Chocolate Squishies (and Occasional Liquorice Ones)
In The Netherlands
Take out: _I love the colour_ to reply.
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Boca Jan
help you out. However, be sure to be specific in what you want so we don't
send you the wrong stuff. Be prepared for a mail box full of squishies.
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Boca Jan
Florida - Land of the Hurricanes
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"Jessamy" <jessamy_thompson@_ilovethecolour_orange.nl> wrote in message
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Kate G.
heart) and purchased the fabrics I needed. It used 3 fabrics: a large
scale floral, a tone-on-tone solid that matched the background of the floral
print and an accent color.
I cut the 2 inch squares then picked and chose the squares based upon how
the florals covered the 2" (actually 2 1/2" unfinished) square to create
shape of the heart.
You can see a picture of it here:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2060542210096666110XXxDmb
Another idea for getting a variety of fabrics in smaller sizes... check out
ebay.
Kate in MI
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Sherry Starr
I think Connecting Threads and Hancock's of Paducah sites also have the
packets. I know several members of my quilt guild have ordered the packets
from Keepsake Quilting, and loved them.
Sherry Starr
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MaleQuilter
Thanks for the replies. I guess I was not very clear about what I
needed. So here goes:
two x two inch pieces of 100% cotton
each piece have a variety of colors, shapes, color intensities,
values, and contrast
variety of pieces to cover a wide range of colors, shapes, color
intensities, values, and contrast
It seems that large floral prints when cut into the 2"x2" gives the
right result.
Quite often other large scale prints (animals, birds, vegetable,etc)
also work.
Occasionally, paislies work but most paislies do not have much color
variety
I probably am violating some kind of copyright but I found some pics
of the types of fabric and posted them in my webshots album.
MaleQuilter
Jerry in North Alabama
> > http://community.webshots.com/user/MaleQuilter-
Irrational Number
> I've decided my next project will be a watercolor quilt but I am
> having a problem building up a decent palette to get started.
Something like this should help:
http://www.whims.cc/fateighths.htm
I started my watercolor fabric collection
by getting these types of sets, then later
got fabrics individually.
-- Anita --
Polly Esther
http://search.hp.netscape.com/hp/boomframe.jsp?query=quilting+fabric&page=2&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D871265f5bf4d8692%26clickedItemRank%3D17%26userQuery%3Dquilting%2Bfabric%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.quiltshops.com%252F%26invocationType%3Dnext%26fromPage%3DHPNextPrev%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quiltshops.com%2F
for crying out loud - that's a long address - but should get you to
quilter's cache at the place where you get to do a search. Type in : kit
watercolor
They'll show you 3 or 4 pages of what's available at many shops. You
might see just what you're looking for and could save you lots of collecting
and cutting time. We saw a quilt at a shop in Tennessee that was
watercolor - hardly more than a flower garden with a butterfly appliqué.
I'm not a big fan of kits but this was a lot of fun and easy. Polly
WitchyStitcher
and only attempt, I also used the backs of fabrics for some light and
medium tones.
Linda
PATCHogue, NY
Butterflywings
are looking for---if'n you don't mind giving out your addy. some of us might
be willing and able to give you a hand<g>
Butterfly (remind me AFTER I'm unpacked)
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Polly Esther
Polly
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Roberta Zollner
squares will be on their way asap.
Roberta in D
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Butterflywings
Fri--well---here it is Fri and the phone rings saying his compressor died so
he is on another job.....we HAVE a compressor but then he said something
else. ALL that is left is the door and trim SIGH
So my guys might do the trim--they have done that kind of stuff before. Once
the trim is done then we can get the shelving up...... NEED to have that
done as SIL/DH are to be here this week and she will help with the
unpacking---she is GOOD at it ... lots of practice... I may just stand back
and let them have at it :) With the way Ginger packed it should be easy.
They're staying at friends so I don't have to worry on that.
Thanks for asking
Butterfly (Dreaming of the day I can START quilting again)
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Boca Jan
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Boca Jan
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Sandy Ellison
You really have to watch what you say around here, Jerry. <g>
Once I said, "I'm not Irish but I love green!" and here's what happened:
http://tinyurl.com/2zwg2e
stacks of green blocks and green fabric squares and green bits & pieces
that I happily turned into this Green Hug from RCTQ. Really, all I
said was, "I'm not Irish..." and this stuff showed up right before
St. Patrick's Day. <g> It's kinda' scary, in a good way, how
generous this group is, and how well they pay attention! ;-P
Cheers! And good luck! It's a pleasure to see your quilt photos.
Ragmop/Sandy - figuring that Jerry won't mind trimming some scraps
so he can get just the piece he needs out of each bit
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/el...@sbcglobal.net/albums
On 4/5/07 7:17 PM, in article
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Susan Torrens
quilts, as well as fabric strips. You might want to check them out.
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Susan in Zephyrhills FL
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"MaleQuilter" <putt...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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desert quilter
Hi Jerry,
Keepsake Quilting often offers watercolor palettes. However, you
might consider asking for trades on this newsgroup. When I was in
need of a variety of yellows, I got all I needed for the king-sized
quilt I was making. Heck, you could offer to trade a 6" square (since
you don't need much of each fabric). I'd be glad to peak in my
stash. :-)
Michelle in NV
http://community.webshots.com/user/desert_quilter
MaleQuilter
Several members of this group have offered to send me some fabric for
my first watercolor quilt project and I do not know how to send a
private message with my snail mail address to them.
When I click "Respond to author", does the message get sent only to
the author?
Does this work where members have some characters in their email
address that have to be eliminated?.
Generally, how do I send a private message? Do I do something inside
the discussion group or do I need to actually send an email.
Thanks for all of the help and support.
Irrational Number
> Help!
>
> Several members of this group have offered to send me some fabric for
> my first watercolor quilt project and I do not know how to send a
> private message with my snail mail address to them.
My email address is a h s i u n g @ e a r t h l i n k
dot n e t.
I'll be happy to send you some watercolor fabrics.
-- Anita --
Sandy Ellison
On your behalf, and as Queen of the Beggars, let me say:
Anyone who wants to send scraps or 2" squares to Jerry,
email him, please. ;-D
I found that responding to his ng post will give me his email addy.
I don't know, Jerry; some addresses are real and will respond to
email, others are confused and confusing and we never do figure out
how to de-code them. <g>
Good luck!
And thanks to all of you who want to send the watercolor fabrics. ;-)
Ragmop/Sandy--- happy to aid and abet
On 4/7/07 7:08 PM, in article
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Patti
is click on the 'reply to sender' or whatever the terminology is in your
system. Then, when the e-mail page comes up, amend the e-mail address as
instructed in the group message (most people give instructions on how to
alter the changed address so that it will work, in their sig. line or
somewhere easy to see). If it just has something like 'nospam' you can
delete that bit yourself.
I don't know of a way to send a private message within RCTQ. Mind you,
if there were a way, I would most certainly not be the person to know
it!
.
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