This is the colour design David picked! It's my least favourite and not at all the direction I was thinking this quilt would go. I really was loving the blue palettes.
Well I did give him permission to decide didn't I? And at least I can say its a quilt we will both love (or both hate LOL). For the next step I went back to design seeds and pulled out some more colour palettes with green in them (and maybe a hint of ice blue. Tee hee hee). I forgot to photograph the colour cards that I printed off, but I ended up cutting up the colour cards and sorting the colours according to tone. My plan was to choose a background colour from the lightest tone (bottom row). The Swoon quilt needs 18 fat quarters of feature fabric, so I was going to select 6 dark tones (from the top row), 6 medium tones (second row) and 6 light tones (third row).
My initial concept was to use Kona Solids for the quilt and I spent a lovely morning looking through and matching up the colour cards with a kona solid. But then I started to second guess that choice. Perhaps Swoon wasn't quite the right pattern to showcase solids since its such an over sized block???
Next I spent that evening looking around the internet at fabric... specifically searching for bundles with greens and browns and beiges (with hints of blue) in them. I found this bundle of Batiks on Etsy that pleased me a lot. I have a love/hate with Batiks. I LOVE the intensity of colour, and that its a bit hippyish but I don't often see finished batik quilts that I like. I also wondered Swoon + batik??? would that work????
The whole quite is fabulous
Seeing that one gave me the confidence that it will work, and when I showed David my various idea's (green kona solids, Batiks or something else) he was keen to go out on a limb and use the Batiks.
So that's where I'm at...A MonSwoon quilt; built with Batiks reminiscent of jungles and tropical islands. I have ordered a bundle of 21 fat quarters in green, brown and blue batiks with an even mixture of dark and light tones.
5 comments:
I'm not really into batiks, or the swoon pattern itself (I might be the only one) but I do like that green and brown block. I think one of the things that really makes it work is the colour values chosen. I like that the middle is the lightest green and that the chunkier parts at the outer are in the dark brown. The batiks make this one look a little like a gem-stone. I think the colours you have chosen should work really well.
I'm not really into batiks so much either but that Swoon block stopped me in my tracks the other day over at Flickr. I think that pack you've seen on Etsy will look great!! And now that you've come up with the coolest name - MonSwoon you have to do it!! Thanks for leaving me a wonderful comment about my Swoon/house block on my blog. You come up as a NoReply blogger so I couldn't reply to your email.
I like the colours variations in the batiks. I feel like the Konas would be a bit flat. I also like that you get a bit of the colours that you like with the batiks and the ones that David likes. Win/win I say. GO with your gut on the fabric choices.s
Well I love batiks, and that green/brown block is great. I also love the bluey/greey/grey one at the bottom of the whole quilt, but not overly keen on the other blocks.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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