Today, I was directed to the Connecticut Piecemaker’s site, which showed this quilt, a raffle quilt for their 2008 show. You all know that I am a sucker for samplers and this one is a particularly fine example. I really like the variety of blocks and the fine use of red. The reds are very similar and I wish I could see the individual blocks closer to see if they are the same red, but such is life.
At the Fair last weekend, I was thinking about pink fabrics. The Sampler above brought the thoughts back to my mind. I have over the past year or so had a bug in my ear about pink fabrics, so I have been buying them up – not like crazy, but selectively, just in glorious quantities. Now I have quite a lot of them, so naturally my thoughts turn to what I will do with them. This quilt got me thinking about a pink and white sampler:
It looked better in person, but you get the idea. I am not thrilled about the contrast of a couple of the pinks, but all I need is a spark of an idea and I go off in my own direction anyway.
This quilt has the look of the red quilt above in terms of a consistent value. All the fabrics are the same, so, of course, it would have consistent values. If I go forward with this idea, I would like to achieve this look, but with a variety of different fabrics. I’ll have to work hard at it.