In Creating with Solids #1, I remarked upon solid fabrics reveal the full expressiveness of our own personal lines and marks. Creating with Solids #2 highlighted how solids come in a wide range of colours and showcase how colours interact. Building on these posts, I now look at shapes and negative space. When I first […]
Technique: Design - Creating with Solids
Creating with Solids #2: It’s All About Colour!
In Creating with Solids #1, I remarked upon how working with solid fabrics reveals the full expressiveness of our own personal lines and marks. Today it’s all about colour. Whether you use commercially produced solids or dye your own, solid-coloured fabrics offer a veritable rainbow of shades, values and hues. Robert Kaufman recently expanded their […]
Creating with Solids #1
Solids offer so many possibilities for the modern quiltmaker and textile artist. Although I had played around with hand-dyed fabrics, marbles and batiks, my early stash was dominated by prints and tone on tone fabrics. It wasn’t until I took an improvisational workshop with Nancy Crow in 2006 that I developed an appreciation of the […]
We Love Colour: Kona Cotton Solids
We Love Color, published by Stash Books – an imprint of C&T Publishing, features 16 quilts created by 16 designers known for their original style and use of colour: Lisa Call Emily Cier Alisa Haight Carlton Malka Dubrawsky Amy Ellis Jacqui Gering Elizabeth Hartman Australia’s very own Rita Hodge. Cherri House Kathy Mack Weeks Ringle […]