{"id":15963,"date":"2012-12-04T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=15963"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:20:43","slug":"star-sampler-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/star-sampler-fabrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Sampler Fabrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time flies when you are having fun. I am enjoying musing over possibilities for this project. I didn’t think I would since I like to get sewing quickly, but I am determined to enjoy this fabric selection process and it, as it turns out, is not difficult.<\/p>\n

I bought a couple of fabrics last week when most of the network was down at work, except the Internet. I did do work, really, I did – more than others, I think – but at some point, I couldn’t get into my email and there wasn’t any new work coming in. After you clean your desk and read all your piled up magazines, contracts and make a ton of phone calls that have been put off, what else is there to do but buy fabric? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"Dot<\/a>
Dot Background?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fabrics came yesterday, which was perfect timing, because I had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day<\/a> and they made me happy. I was able to play a bit and I even washed a couple of the fabrics.<\/p>\n

There is always a surprise when I buy multiple fabrics and the turquoise and chocolate dot on white (middle of photo, right) was one of those happy surprises. I really like it and think if it had purple instead of the chocolate, it might be a perfect background for the stars. Still, I like it, but the chocolate does stand out a little more than I would like. I suppose I could add chocolate to the entire piece to add a bit of spark. I’ll have to try some out and see what I think.<\/p>\n

I have to make visual decisions visually, so I will make a sample star, as well, before I decide.<\/p>\n

\"Leafy<\/a>
Leafy Background?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Really, there is no shortage of blues at my house, but I seem to crave the calm feeling they project, so I keep buying more.\u00a0 The three blues on white in the middle are also background candidates. I didn’t even buy them with that in mind, but thought of it when I saw them.<\/p>\n

I almost bought more of the leafy V&Co print without even trying it. I stopped myself, because I want to make a sample and make sure the leafy blues and greens, don’t bleed into the other fabrics, destroying the crispness of the stars. I do think the leafy print would be a bold choice, because of the leaves.<\/p>\n

\"Leaf<\/a>
Leaf and Dots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think the large dot on the middle left would be a pain. I think the pooling of the color at the bottom (top in the photo) would make it hard to use as a background. I do think it will work as an adjunct fabric for a star. The turquoise squares on white are a more conventional choice and might be a good one to fall back on in a pinch.<\/p>\n

I keep thinking of this see-through star <\/a>from someone else’s quilt in the quilt-a-long Flickr group when I think of the background. I don’t think I want to use a solid, but I do like the effect of looking through the star to the background, so I want to be sure and choose something that will help achieve that effect.<\/p>\n

\"Testing<\/a>
Testing the waters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These fabrics all look good together and I think any of them would be fine, really. I think the leafy print looks good with the purples and the greens are similar, too.<\/p>\n

At the moment, I am completely ignoring the purples I want, and need, to add. I like that Chicopee purple, but I need something that is a more bluey purple as well, like the background of the Philip Jacobs print. I’ll keep working at the fabric selection.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that I thought about completely changing direction and going with pinks. Perhaps I will do two of these at the same time…except that that would mean I would have to pick background fabrics for two quilts.<\/p>\n

I started talking about this project in a post<\/a> a few days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time flies when you are having fun. I am enjoying musing over possibilities for this project. I didn’t think I would since I like to get sewing quickly, but I am determined to enjoy this fabric selection process and it, as it turns out, is not difficult. I bought a couple of fabrics last week … Continue reading “Star Sampler Fabrics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[315,252,199],"class_list":["post-15963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-fabric","tag-project-quilt","tag-star-sampler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}