I'm usually not a matchy-matchy person. I don't like the idea of someone else choosing my palette, so I'm not much for the idea of working with a single line of fabric in a single project.
It's good to have ideals and policies and to stick with them, but there's also a time to break your own rules. And I get to say when that time is for me.
When I first saw the French General Rouenneries line last fall, I was pretty much enthralled. Loved the look and loved the palette. I loved it all so much I couldn't wait for the yardage to hit the stores; I bought myself a layercake packet of samples from the line.
This is just so unlike me.
I ended up chopping the layercake into fourths.
I didn't want a quilt entirely made from plain squares, so I bought a bit of Rouenneries yardage, once it was available, for a subtle alternate block to throw in every here and there.
I found a complimentary brown for sashing and used one of the Rouenneries solids for cornerstones. The border is another of the Rouenneries fabrics--why be inconsistent now?
Voila--one Rouenneries quilt top, all ready for quilting. Not a groundbreaker as quilts go, but I think the tones and prints are just lovely.
Still, don't look for me to go the matchy-matchy route again anytime soon.
8 comments:
Here! Here! on the non-matchy-non-matchy, but I do like this quilt. Love that brown sashing. This really was a very nice line. Nice quilt, Kathie!
looks great, ah Iknow what you mean, hate matchy matchy!
LOL
kathie
it's beautiful!!
i think that "use one line only" thing is really prevalent in new quilters. there isn't enough work put into developing one's eye and thinking about different combinations / how a small print reads as a solid if you step away from it / how to combine patterns/textures/etc / I think they find it easiest to jump in if they stick with one line
i also find the really popular quilting blogs that are from people who've really only been quilting for a year or two themseves make almost ALL their quilts from just one line. so if you're jumping into quilting based on their bandwagon, you don't have as many examples of people mixing fabrics and being scrappy.
it kinda makes me crazy. :)
but i am working on a mystery quilt myself where all the "dark" fabrics are from one line (the light fabrics are just random additions, I believe) and it definitely eliminates that "choosing fabrics / making decisions" part of the process, which is generally the lengthiest bit for me. :)
I am cracking up because ... oh man, I could have written this post.
*looks to her left, where there is a small stack of Rouenneries fabric she purchased a week ago Friday*
The line is gorgeous. It reminded me of my time spent in France. Soft and almost-but-not-quite feminine without being overly girly or vomitously cutesy.
@Carolyn: "I also find the really popular quilting blogs that are from people who've really only been quilting for a year or two themselves make almost ALL their quilts from just one line."
YES. THIS. What you have described has almost singlehandedly turned me off of what some people call 'modern quilting' but what I tend to call the 'Denyse Schmidt fangirl' effect. They gush about a couple of very specific lines of fabric -- it's like they don't see that they've jumped out of one confining box into a newer and differently-shaped box. I love my Liberty fabrics as well as my crazy Javanese batiks, feedsack prints, and traditional Japanese fabrics. They're all beautiful and worth using -- and such fun when put together.
I wonder if there's room to spread out dinner on top of this soapbox? ;)
I rarely make a quilt from one line of fabric but I'd have made this one too!
I never make quilts from one line, as you know, but I have to admit that if I saw these fabrics I'd have to have them.
It's a beautiful quilt.
I hear ya, I'm with ya, but yes, this is a gorgeous quilt and what would life be if we didn't break our own rules once in a while. lovely!
I am not usually a 'red' person, but I love your top!! Very nice.
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