Mad about patchwork, quilting, applique and a few other crafts...

 

I love all bright colours but have a particular love of green especially towards the lime end of green. But I am learning to love lots of colours and pushing myself outside my box and enjoying doing it. Bright pink, aqua, teal, navy, yellow, mustard, orange, red and grey - are my happy colours too!

 

Love working with solids and modern prints but still love thirties, plaids... I think I have one foot in traditional quilting and one in modern but usually I like to mix it up! I prefer a scrappy look as I find it interesting to look at and find it more of a challenge in putting the fabrics together.

 

Am currently trying to finish off my hoard of UFOs so some of what I'm working on is what I was attracted to years ago but to still enjoy making it I adapt it to my current likes as much as I can!

 

New loves include;

 

Text fabric - cannot get enough of that

Also love improv words - working on a hanging for my sewing room with words from the quilting process!

 

New to steampunk - love the mix of text, Victoriana and a bit of whimsy thrown together with pseudo scientific stuff!

 

Daisies - such happy flowers! Collecting daisy fabrics to make a daisy fabric quit someday...

 

Prints with seedheads, feathers and other natural forms

 

Loving the washed out neutrals (low volume) look paired with bright colours

 

Also a more monochrome look as long as there is detail in there - text or print (tone on tone)

 

Love texture - linens and cottons combined with hand and or machine stitching!

 

Love embroidery too!

 

Japanese fabrics - especially fairytale ones!

 

Buttons - vintage or modern, neutral or coloured!

 

Not so keen on lace, frills, lots of yoyos - though one or two in the right place is fine

 

Not usually in love with a whole collection - I tend to pick and choose from different lines and love to mix it up! An exception to this was Lotta Jansdotter's Echo and Glimma may be another!