What a change this month. It's not as simple as I thought to work out a good piece using multicolored fabrics. First of all, I can't do a crayon this month. All the wax colors would mush together into muddy brown, not very exciting.
My project for this week was two Geese Migration blocks. But how do you make them noticeably different? My solution was grouping them by dark and strong versus lighter and paler. The starting point was a dark midnight blue with dull gold dots. That made the sky for the first group of geese, and strong, bright color mixes were easy to find.
As you can see, within that range I was able to grade the geese from light to dark.
The daylight block was trickier. I finally chose a sandy beach fabric for the triangles. Apparently the geese decided to take a break and relax in the sun. Here the squares are softer also.
I had a busy week otherwise, so all that I got done was my Summer quilt blocks 21 and 22. It's getting more difficult to find combinations I haven't used before. That's where photo records come in handy. But Kaffe Fassett hasn't let me down yet.
We still have very few flowers in bloom, so I'm happy to be working with all these fun multis. Can't wait to see what all of you have come up with this week.
Wishing all of you a lovely springtime.
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Looking great! I do like the dark geese migration block especially.
ReplyDeleteThe flying geese blocks are lovely. You did a very good job taming the colors so we don't lose the geese. On the block side too. Love your blocks for the Summer quilt, especially the second one. Awesome! ;^)
ReplyDeleteMore fun with fabrics this week!
ReplyDeleteI think your geese migration blocks turned out great, Paula! What a good idea you had - to divide them between lights and darks. The Summer quilt blocks are pretty, too. I especially like the second one you showed!
ReplyDeleteGreat blocks Paula. Love the dark geese. Fun fabrics.
ReplyDeleteYou gave a good try with the MULTICOLORED fabric this week. Nice work!!
ReplyDeleteYour inspired choice of light(Sandy beach) and dark (midnight blue) fabrics work so well for your flying geese blocks. I'm not doing the RSC but loving seeing what others make. I know I would not have known where to start with the multi coloured fabrics.
ReplyDeleteYour blocks look great!
ReplyDeleteI've run into the same challenge: finding backgrounds that allow the multicolor scraps to stand on their own. I'm thinking I'm going to have to break out of the white on whites I've been using for my postage stamp stars...
ReplyDeleteWow! What a challenge to make things with multi-colored fabrics. You're doing an awesome job. I'm a big fan of Kaffe Fasset. This is fun to watch! :)
ReplyDeleteliking your scrappy geese have not done my crazy block foe the challenge yet.Your Kaffe fabrics are looking good too his fabrics are so colourful I do have a couple of pieces but tat is all
ReplyDeleteGreat looking blocks! I like your solution for the geese blocks!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blocks and fabrics! Looking forward to watching your collection of COLORFUL blocks grow.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen my Geese Migration blocks done in multi-colored fabrics. They are so pretty. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!
ReplyDeleteSome pretty blocks happening at your place.
ReplyDeleteLovely flying geese and perfect points. You always have the most wonderful colour sense Paula.
ReplyDeleteYou've made some beautiful blocks, Paula. Those Kaffe fabrics are gorgeous together!
ReplyDeleteYour work on these two blocks makes me smile! That summer quilt is going to be stupendous, and I want to jump into yet another vortex and make those day/night geese...LOVE!
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