a Gift for You
Tapestry Garden color sheet!
I hope you’ve had a merry holiday so far. Here’s something to sweeten the days ahead!
Are you itching to start your Tapestry Garden quilt? If you’re like me, the color ideas are swirling around in your head in an exciting, if distracting cloud. Well, friends, get out those colored pencils and let’s pin those ideas to paper. Print a couple of Tapestry Garden color sheets and start playing!
I can’t wait to see your ideas! Please share them in the Stitched in Color chat group. And, just for fun, I have another colorway of Tapestry Garden to share today - - -
Bouquet
Color Palette: multicolor with a green emphasis
This version is inspired by my dream garden, with lush greens and bright bursts of colorful flowers.
I started this off with the goal of using as much green as possible, in all tones from yellow-green to blue-green. Next I experimented with pink and magenta flowers. At some point I added vibrant yellow and that really delighted me so I went wild with yellow touches overall. Yellow has the feminine energy of flowers, while making all the greens more intense.
Although green was my theme, the quilt ended up including everything but red and orange. That’s handy for scrap sewing! Our quilt also uses light-colored solids, and I opted for a variety from neutrals to pale green and pale yellow. You’ll find information on cutting solids for the quilt on page 6 of the Tapestry Garden Prelude document. To keep things interesting, I used both dark and light values of green, plus warm and cool versions. Here that shows up as warm limey green and cool evergreen. Utilizing both value and warmth concepts gives you lots of variations to work with! If these concepts are unfamiliar, pick up a copy of my book, A Quilter’s Field Guide to Color: A Hands-on Workbook for Mastering Fabric Selection. There’s lots to discover.
I hope you enjoy kicking off the planning stage for Tapestry Garden with today’s color sheet. When you register for the club, you’ll receive the Prelude document, which contains all the info you need about scrap sizes, fabrics, tools, color palette ideas, etc. I’ve got you covered.
p.s. Need more details? See the Tapestry Garden FAQ’s. Registration opens in just one week - January 1st!!! If you haven’t done so already, use the “I’m Interested” button to sign up to be notified by email when registration begins.