Sunday, March 20, 2011

Project Selvedge, Here I come ( I hope)


If you mosey on over to Spoonflower, you'll find yourself eye-to-eye with this little logo glaring you down, just challenging you to a duel. Can you do this? What shall you do?
 Do you join the ultimate fabric smack-down? Of course I will. Naturally, I have been über busy with full-time work, freelance, and family, so haven't been able to work on this yet and the due date is next week--what is life if not challenging, right? But I will enter, and if I even make it to the first round of choices,
I'll be all happy-drooly and stuff.
Wish me luck! 
And good luck to you, if you decide to step up to the challenge! But most of all, have fun!

Another Cozy Quilt by Tina

My friend Tina at Little Blue Cottage has added another lovely quilt to her repertoire! I love this quilt, and I I commented to her on her blog, "it makes me all squealy on the inside". I love the simple-but-fun and frolicky design. Hand-stitched in areas, machine stitched in others, it has a balance that I like. As much as I appreciate a pristine edge, I love the look of hand-stitching and "raw" edges. To me, it adds to the slightly worn look of a quilt with a bit of age and a lot of love. And that's what Tina does, is quilt and sew with a lot of love. It is apparent in everything she does. Congrats, Tina, on another fabulous work of art!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Fresh...Like an Orange

You might be able to gather (by my logo, and by my business cards, if you saw them) that my two favorite colors, especially together, are orange and aqua. I love the energy that the color orange evokes, and the serene calm and just plain "prettiness" of aqua or even turquoise. I know a lot of people are thrown off by orange--don't really know what to do with it: too bright for some, hard to find a complimentary color for others, just too plain "loud" for many folks. But I love it--I feel refreshed every time I see it, and even more so when I see it put to good use. So I thought it'd be fun to find some good design samples for the home--the least likely place people may use the color orange, because they are not sure what to do with it, other than accent pillows. In the photos below, the use of orange ranges from all over (quite literally) to accent areas, but I love them all. Happy, energizing spaces!

What do you think? Do you think you could take a color as bold as orange and "run with it"? What other colors do you think you could use with it? (View my previous post, and you can see what might work to your liking....)





Sunday, March 20, 2011

Project Selvedge, Here I come ( I hope)


If you mosey on over to Spoonflower, you'll find yourself eye-to-eye with this little logo glaring you down, just challenging you to a duel. Can you do this? What shall you do?
 Do you join the ultimate fabric smack-down? Of course I will. Naturally, I have been über busy with full-time work, freelance, and family, so haven't been able to work on this yet and the due date is next week--what is life if not challenging, right? But I will enter, and if I even make it to the first round of choices,
I'll be all happy-drooly and stuff.
Wish me luck! 
And good luck to you, if you decide to step up to the challenge! But most of all, have fun!

Another Cozy Quilt by Tina

My friend Tina at Little Blue Cottage has added another lovely quilt to her repertoire! I love this quilt, and I I commented to her on her blog, "it makes me all squealy on the inside". I love the simple-but-fun and frolicky design. Hand-stitched in areas, machine stitched in others, it has a balance that I like. As much as I appreciate a pristine edge, I love the look of hand-stitching and "raw" edges. To me, it adds to the slightly worn look of a quilt with a bit of age and a lot of love. And that's what Tina does, is quilt and sew with a lot of love. It is apparent in everything she does. Congrats, Tina, on another fabulous work of art!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Fresh...Like an Orange

You might be able to gather (by my logo, and by my business cards, if you saw them) that my two favorite colors, especially together, are orange and aqua. I love the energy that the color orange evokes, and the serene calm and just plain "prettiness" of aqua or even turquoise. I know a lot of people are thrown off by orange--don't really know what to do with it: too bright for some, hard to find a complimentary color for others, just too plain "loud" for many folks. But I love it--I feel refreshed every time I see it, and even more so when I see it put to good use. So I thought it'd be fun to find some good design samples for the home--the least likely place people may use the color orange, because they are not sure what to do with it, other than accent pillows. In the photos below, the use of orange ranges from all over (quite literally) to accent areas, but I love them all. Happy, energizing spaces!

What do you think? Do you think you could take a color as bold as orange and "run with it"? What other colors do you think you could use with it? (View my previous post, and you can see what might work to your liking....)