By the time her third collection, Glimma, was released I was much more educated, exposed, converted, and spending time thinking about fabric in a more, um, thoughtful way (or perhaps obsessive?). Anyway, more able to define what I liked about fabrics.
And what I liked are wonky stripes. Which Glimma has. And Bella, too, and her first collection, too, has Lina, queen of stripes (in my opinion - second are the stripes from Sympatico by Michelle Engel Bencsko - so great!) I have put a lot of thought into stripes - I am assembling a quilt from stripes (very slowly - and have been for a long time, though this is I think, the first mention of it here)... and one thing I like about Lotta Jansdotter's prints is that many of them are stripes that aren't exactly stripes - lines that aren't linear or designs that are ordered in imperfect rows.... Which is the sort of thing one needs when one is trying to make a quilt from one sort of fabric while trying to keep it from being too much the same.
I bought Lina and Kita (in blueberry) for different purposes (more on that later - much later, that's a whole other quilt!), but could not help thinking they would be great together. And the more I thought about it, and the organic shapes they are and form and unform and reform when cut apart and moved together again. I decided on a woven 9 patch block with these semi-linear fabrics.
like so. |
But just blue and pink would be boring, so I looked at the collections and chose two other fabrics - Redig in orange from Bella (for a warm color) and Drake in flannel from Glimma (for a cool, but not dark color - my rational is that orange is dark, but the pink is light, so in order to balance the block, the other cool color must also be tonal light).
And then I planned my (twin sized) quilt! (Drafted with MS Paint...)
and... the finished quilt looks nothing like this! |
Stay tuned for part two - the actual quilt!
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