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When you look though quilt magazines, online quilt sites, and through our
own member's photo albums, what attracts you to a particular quilt? Is it mostly the type of quilt, be it traditional, modern/art, or new technique? Do you find yourself drawn to a particular color/fabric combination? Do you love quilts with lots of little pieces or bold fabric choices? How does this influence the quilts you choose to make? I love color play most. Quilts with lots of little bits impress me but I dont feel the need to make them. Techniques are fun to learn and see made but again, I dont feel a need to try them because in my quilts the color play is more important. Id love to hear your thoughts on this. Diana |
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Yes to all. Sigh. Just call me eclectic. Not that I feel driven to actually
make all of them (thank goodness), very often it's BTDT. Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... When you look though quilt magazines, online quilt sites, and through our own member's photo albums, what attracts you to a particular quilt? Is it mostly the type of quilt, be it traditional, modern/art, or new technique? Do you find yourself drawn to a particular color/fabric combination? Do you love quilts with lots of little pieces or bold fabric choices? How does this influence the quilts you choose to make? I love color play most. Quilts with lots of little bits impress me but I dont feel the need to make them. Techniques are fun to learn and see made but again, I dont feel a need to try them because in my quilts the color play is more important. Id love to hear your thoughts on this. Diana |
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I love those with all the little pieces where the colors just flow so
perfectly. Meanwhile I live in the real world where I have been trying for over a year just to get the pieces cut for one of my quilts and hope to actually get around to finishing the hand quilting on a baby blanket started 3 years ago sometime this month. (will make a nice doll blanket for the neighbor's daughter) Not a chance in heck I could ever get something that intricate done. I really enjoy seeing all types of quilts, but I tend to stick to the basics of simple design and with a limited budget, I use mostly scraps that turn up from various sources. Eventually, I will have more time and $$ I hope and will get to try new and exciting patterns that will leave me tearing my hair out at this point! ~handmaiden -- handmaiden "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... When you look though quilt magazines, online quilt sites, and through our own member's photo albums, what attracts you to a particular quilt? Is it mostly the type of quilt, be it traditional, modern/art, or new technique? Do you find yourself drawn to a particular color/fabric combination? Do you love quilts with lots of little pieces or bold fabric choices? How does this influence the quilts you choose to make? I love color play most. Quilts with lots of little bits impress me but I dont feel the need to make them. Techniques are fun to learn and see made but again, I dont feel a need to try them because in my quilts the color play is more important. Id love to hear your thoughts on this. Diana |
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It used to be color. Then I realized I was pretty good at color myself.
Now I'm drawn to the quilts that use the worst materials and somehow make them work in new and unusual ways. There will be a fabric that I passed up because it was too ugly to live put into a quilt that's too beautiful to be believed. I'm not drawn to realism though that doesn't turn me off. Mostly now I'm attracted to line and design, quilts that are impressive in their overall impact, the ones where the quilter probably spent months planning it, then only a few days making it because the technique is devestatingly simple while the idea behind it is complex. --Lia Diana Curtis wrote: When you look though quilt magazines, online quilt sites, and through our own member's photo albums, what attracts you to a particular quilt? Is it mostly the type of quilt, be it traditional, modern/art, or new technique? Do you find yourself drawn to a particular color/fabric combination? Do you love quilts with lots of little pieces or bold fabric choices? How does this influence the quilts you choose to make? |
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I've only been quilting for a year but so far it's colour and pattern both.
I love earth tones. I don't particularly like the scrappy look but I made table runners in a scrappy way and I rather like them now. I had a heck of a time trying to decide what colours to put where. I've been trying to diversify myself and pick purposely different fabrics to try out but I find that I don't quite enjoy working with them so much when they aren't my taste. I have to admit, though, that I like pretty well everything I've made so far. I really like the look of the 1930's quilts but haven't made one yet. I bought a kit of Paris Flea Market material which is close but now I look at the quilt on the wall of the shop and realize I was drawn only to the fabrics, not to the pattern so I may try to go out on my own (scary thought) and change the pattern. I want to experiment because I may find I like something that I never dreamt I'd like. I also learned from the owner of my LQS to choose one bright colour (even if it will be only a small bit in the quilt) to give it punch. I'm not crazy about geometrics or folk art and wouldn't make something like that. I like the more traditional look. Shirley -- My Quilt Site http://ca.geocities.com/meadow1951/index.html Inspiring Thoughts http://members.tripod.com/inspiring-thoughts/index.html "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... When you look though quilt magazines, online quilt sites, and through our own member's photo albums, what attracts you to a particular quilt? Is it mostly the type of quilt, be it traditional, modern/art, or new technique? Do you find yourself drawn to a particular color/fabric combination? Do you love quilts with lots of little pieces or bold fabric choices? How does this influence the quilts you choose to make? I love color play most. Quilts with lots of little bits impress me but I dont feel the need to make them. Techniques are fun to learn and see made but again, I dont feel a need to try them because in my quilts the color play is more important. Id love to hear your thoughts on this. Diana |
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Color first, then design. I love to learn new patterns,
just to know I can do them. But the quilts that always make me go Wow! involve color combination. -- Bonnie, the Quilt Lady NJ |
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Would it be possible for you to point us towards a picture of a quilt that
explains the 'more planning than sewing' concept? I believe I know what youre talking about but a visual would help. Diana "Julia Altshuler" wrote in message news:OSpsc.36622$zw.21370@attbi_s01... It used to be color. Then I realized I was pretty good at color myself. Now I'm drawn to the quilts that use the worst materials and somehow make them work in new and unusual ways. There will be a fabric that I passed up because it was too ugly to live put into a quilt that's too beautiful to be believed. I'm not drawn to realism though that doesn't turn me off. Mostly now I'm attracted to line and design, quilts that are impressive in their overall impact, the ones where the quilter probably spent months planning it, then only a few days making it because the technique is devestatingly simple while the idea behind it is complex. --Lia Diana Curtis wrote: When you look though quilt magazines, online quilt sites, and through our own member's photo albums, what attracts you to a particular quilt? Is it mostly the type of quilt, be it traditional, modern/art, or new technique? Do you find yourself drawn to a particular color/fabric combination? Do you love quilts with lots of little pieces or bold fabric choices? How does this influence the quilts you choose to make? |
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Its good to have goals, and a realistic attitude about what you can
accomplish right now. I bet that doll quilt will be loved to bits when its done. Diana "handmaiden" wrote in message ... I love those with all the little pieces where the colors just flow so perfectly. Meanwhile I live in the real world where I have been trying for over a year just to get the pieces cut for one of my quilts and hope to actually get around to finishing the hand quilting on a baby blanket started 3 years ago sometime this month. (will make a nice doll blanket for the neighbor's daughter) Not a chance in heck I could ever get something that intricate done. I really enjoy seeing all types of quilts, but I tend to stick to the basics of simple design and with a limited budget, I use mostly scraps that turn up from various sources. Eventually, I will have more time and $$ I hope and will get to try new and exciting patterns that will leave me tearing my hair out at this point! ~handmaiden -- handmaiden "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... When you look though quilt magazines, online quilt sites, and through our own member's photo albums, what attracts you to a particular quilt? Is it mostly the type of quilt, be it traditional, modern/art, or new technique? Do you find yourself drawn to a particular color/fabric combination? Do you love quilts with lots of little pieces or bold fabric choices? How does this influence the quilts you choose to make? I love color play most. Quilts with lots of little bits impress me but I dont feel the need to make them. Techniques are fun to learn and see made but again, I dont feel a need to try them because in my quilts the color play is more important. Id love to hear your thoughts on this. Diana |
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"Diana Curtis" wrote: When you look though quilt magazines, online quilt sites, and through our own member's photo albums, what attracts you to a particular quilt? Is it mostly the type of quilt, be it traditional, modern/art, or new technique? Do you find yourself drawn to a particular color/fabric combination? Do you love quilts with lots of little pieces or bold fabric choices? How does this influence the quilts you choose to make? I love color play most. Quilts with lots of little bits impress me but I dont feel the need to make them. Techniques are fun to learn and see made but again, I dont feel a need to try them because in my quilts the color play is more important. Id love to hear your thoughts on this. Diana My first thought is color, also, Diana. That may or may not mean that I'm immediately drawn to colors that I prefer -- it's the *use* of those colors. For instance, in looking at Denise's pics (and I haven't finished yet), there was a quilt that looked sort of woven, using shades of magenta that seemed to "shadow" near the places where the rows went under each other. Amazing. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
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Diana, gee, that's a hard question. My taste runs all over the place.
I've seen prize winning quilts that have left me cold, and humble ones that wowed me. I guess my overall initial impression would have to do with color and how it is used. I like lots of color, pattern, and movement. Whimsy catches my eye, too. Denise in NH |
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