Turkey Tracks: January 7, 2019
The Color Collective: Circles!
I am taking a 6-month online “class” with Tara Faughnan, from Sewtopia. The project is called “The Color Collective.”
This class is more “trouble” found by fellow quilters Becca Babb-Brott and Tori Manzi, who are also taking the class. We all signed up for 6 months and will decide on more or not at that time.
Tara Faughnan is known for her use of color—and solids. Take a look at her quilt gallery—she is amazing: https://www.tarafaughnan.com/home
And Sewtopia has its own web site and Instagram site: Sewtopia.com, I think.
One gets a new block design and method each month and a selection of fabrics with which to make that project—all chosen by Tara Faughnan. I signed up for getting half yards rather than fat quarters, and I’m already glad I did that as I have other solid-fabric projects in the works.
January’s block is these circles—and extensive instructions and on-line videos help one be successful. While waiting for my fabrics to come, I practiced by making this little quilt out of my solid stash. I am now totally obsessed with making these circles. I particularly like the secondary pattern where the blocks come together. I’ll bind in a soft grey, which I got Saturday in Belfast at Fiddlehead Artisan Supply. I found the perfect color in Size 8 perle cotton to hand qulit a grid on the little quilt above—a soft, rose/almost salmon. I am so happy they are carrying some of this lighter weight perle cotton. And I’m marking lines with a Hera marker, which is working beautifully. I just mark one line at a time.
Here are the fabrics Tara/Sewtopia chose and sent. I’ve washed and ironed them, cut into them, and am now making circles with them. Pics to follow in a bit. I am champing at the bit to do more today, but also have the Traveling quilt on the long arm, so have to make myself spend time there as well. There is a deadline for the Traveling quilt as Mt. Battie Modern Quilt Guild is going to show our Traveling quilts to Coastal Quilters in February.
But, aren’t these colors luscious!
Here is the block for January or February—I’m not sure which month since I just started—and the fabrics are in the mail now. It’s foundation pieced. Will I get obsessed with this one too? Hard to tell yet, but at the very least I’ll make 4 and put them into my “parts department” bin. (See earlier posts on the “parts department” project some of us started a few years back.) Both Becca and Linda Satkowski are putting together their improv quilts from their “parts department” bins as I write. In essence, we three made blocks enough to give the other two what we were making—and we had such fun just playing with blocks. Making Jen Kingwell’s “Long Time Gone” quilt helped us understand how to group blocks into an improv quilt of this kind.
PS: The Traveling Quilt is OFF THE LONGARM. Now to bind it.
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