Field Trips in Fiber - Adventures in quilting, hand dyed fabric and fiber art.

Thrive Fabric Palette Projects

I've been catching up on my magazine reading lately so I'm back this week with another quilt design from Quilter's Newsletter. This week I'm working with the Blue Lagoon pattern in the June/July issue. This one is designed by Toby Lischko. If you like the Thrive palette you can get ordering information here.

Blue Lagoon

As usual, I started with the pattern layout and worked out a few color options.

This version is closest to the pattern.

But I loved it with the values reversed.

This one is with the Thrive gradient.

This version is with the Abundance gradient. 

Next I played with the layouts.

Next I tried a horizontal set.

eh.

A little more interesting but not nearly as interesting as the on point layout.

The best part of this exercise was learning how to do arcs and points in EQ!

Thrive Fabric Palette Projects

It's the first weekend of the Thrive fabric palette. I always love working with the new color palette and generally start off easy just playing with the way the fabric colors interact with each other. I saw a quilt in the April/May issue of Quilter's Newsletter that I liked and chose that one to play with today.

But first, if you are interested in purchasing the fabric you can get all of the information here. The quilt is called Let's Dance and is done scrappy with a black background. I wanted to see how it would look in my Spring colors.

Here's the block.

As I work with this palette you will see it often used with white as a background. I think these bright colros will look great with white. This version uses the Thrive

gradient.

Less white and adding in the lightest value of Blue Sky.

This one uses the Blue Sky gradient but add a little of the Lime green as a highlight.

This one uses the Abundance gradient and rotates the border blocks for a totally different look.

Add some sashing and change the coloring for the border.

In this version I made the block background dark and the block and sashing light. 

Back to the Blue Sky gradient with a dark background and light blocks and sashing.

 

Thrive Fabric Palette

Thrive Fabric Palette

Fabric Palette for May 5 - July 5

Thrive Fabric Palette

 

I recently had the pleasure of discovering the art of Cassandra Tondro. Cassandra is a green artist. She rescues old discarded house paint from recycling centers and uses it exclusively in her art. You can read more about her process and see an interview with the artist here. She also creates beautiful eco prints and has an active blog. Cassandra was kind enough to allow me to use one of her paintings as the inspiration for the new fabric palette. I chose Orchids 1 from her organic series.

Once I started working with the colors I knew that the palette would evoke Spring. The colors are so vibrant that I named the new palette "Thrive".

This palette has 2 new color gradients and 5 different color value packs. The blue that I've used in the palette is the same as in the popular Blue Sky gradient so I've included it in the palette at the sale price.

Throughout the month I will share some Electric Quilt images and other projects using this palette.

Details about the Palette of the Month. Each of the palette fabrics are available for a special price of $15/yard (below the normal $18/yard price for my hand dyed fabrics). You can purchase any mix of colors and any amount of fabric in 1/4 yard increments. The minimum total order is 1 yard but that can be in 4 fat quarters. 1/4 yard orders will be made as fat quarters unless otherwise specified.

 All fabrics are dyed when ordered so please allow 2 weeks for delivery. Most orders will be turned around in a few days. The fabrics can be found in the Specials section of my shop. I have limited options in the shop for you to order directly but you can order any combination of the fabrics. Just Email me with your request and I will create a custom invoice for you. 

Shipping will be USPS Flat Rate Envelope for all US orders and USPS Flat Rate International for international orders up to 8 yards.

Let's get to the fabrics! You can get ordering information here.

Thrive Stash Pack

All of the fabrics in this palettes are very textured and I've created a Stash Pack with a good variety of the fabrics. Like other Stash Packs, this one contains 10 fat eights of fabric. It's a great way to get a small selection of the palette fabrics.

If you want  larger cuts just order 2 stash packs for fat quarters, 4 for half yards, etc. I will custom dye a st of fabric for you in the larger cuts.

Thrive Gradient

Abundance Gradient

Blue Sky Gradient

Blue Sky Shades Pack

Lime Shades Pack

Grass Shades Pack

Meadow Shades Pack

Violet Shades Pack

 

 

Pendleton Fabric Palette Projects

This week I did a little clearing off my desk and unearthed my copy of volume 5 of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazine. I decided that I  would look for a fun block to use for this week's EQ projects. This is the last week of the Pendleton fabric palette so if you wanted some now is the time to get it while it's on sale.

The block I am working with this week is called Facet-nating by June Dudley. It's on page 37 of the magazine. As with all of the blocks, thsi one is a 12" block. The center square is 7" finished so it would be a great block for some embroidered or applique blocks as the center. Because of the frames on the block I started with a horizontal setting with no borders.

I love the secondary patterns that you get with this block!

Here are a couple of other colorations.

Then I decided to see if I would like some simple sashing.

That's pretty cool. How does it look on point?

This is a great block. It looks good no matter what you do with it.

Pendleton Fabric Palette Projects

I have become fixated on designing quilts using multiple blocks. I have several that I am playing with. This particular one probably isn't really ready for prime time but I wanted to share something! These are, as always, done with the featured fabric palette, Pendleton.

Today I played with a lot of blocks but I ended up with these 3 in the designs that I'm sharing today.

Seesaw

Road to California

Cloverleaf

Here are the designs and you will be able to tell that I was msotly playing with color and value placement to create borders and sashing.