Tag: fabric choice

  • Simple Yet Evocative

    Simple Yet Evocative

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    Allison Rainville

    A while back, I said I was still debating the sky fabric for the Gimsøy quilt. I had a couple of options, but the one I was leaning strongly toward had a hole cut out of one corner and wasn’t going to be big enough. I knew where I’d gotten…

  • On to the Next Quilt

    On to the Next Quilt

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    Allison Rainville

    I received the fabric printouts of the two pictures that I wanted to use like I used the image in the Tracy Arm quilt, and now I’m rethinking my strategy on at least one of them. Come along on my thinking process journey. This is the original image: It’s the…

  • The Border Debate Continues

    The Border Debate Continues

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    Allison Rainville

    The debate about borders continues. This time, it’s the Acadia sunrise quilt. This is where it stands now: I finished sewing the horizontal strips together several days ago, and I put it back up on the design wall and just could not figure out what to do next in terms…

  • And the Quilting Begins

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    Allison Rainville

    I finished up the vertical strips yesterday and started the quilt-as-you-go method of sewing them together today. It’s slow going. As I’ve always said, my ability to match seams in bargello quilts is quite frankly abysmal, so nothing lines up properly. You’d think that because I strip-pieced the sky, all…

  • And It Comes to a Screeching Halt

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    Allison Rainville

    I tried. That fabric that I substituted in – yeah, I didn’t have enough of that. I don’t have enough of that. So I have gotten this far, which you’ll notice isn’t a heck of a lot further than last time I posted. And so the hunt begins. I know…

  • When Bored…

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    Allison Rainville

    Today, I took an unexpected sick day when I realized that I needed to deal with both a dentist appointment and what looks to be an infected tick bite (we don’t mess with Lyme disease up here in the northeast!). I feel fine, but I just needed to deal with…

  • Making More Decisions

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    Allison Rainville

    My guild has a Wednesday night Zoom meeting each week, just to hang out and work on whatever project we’re working on. I decided that I’d see if I could get more done on the Tracy Arm iceberg quilt. I ended up going to the quilt store beforehand to find…

  • Fabric Challenges

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    Allison Rainville

    A few blog posts ago, I mentioned that I’ve had to get over my dislike of batiks. Let’s look at that a little. Batiks are…not my style. Generally, at least. Up to this point in my quilting journey, I have used them very little. I tend to use bright colors…

  • Choosing Fabrics

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    Allison Rainville

    If you’re not going to print the photograph onto fabric and play with it that way, you’re probably going to need to find some fabrics that in some way mimic what you’re trying to capture of the photo. Colors. Shapes. Mood. All of those can be recreated in some way…