What is it about the combination of Yellow and Blue that makes us so happy? Is it the color of Sunshine and Blue Sky? Or maybe it reminds us of Daffodils and Hyacinth? I also think of textile designs from Provence and Italy. Sipping lemonade next to blue waters…or maybe it just means Spring and Summertime?
Yellow is becoming a more important color in fashion and home dec, so that means we see more of it in quilt designs. An interesting twist on this color trend is combining Yellow with the analogous color combination of Turquoise, Robins Egg Blue and Periwinkle. Yellow is such a sunny happy color, but we haven’t thought about this color for a few decades. However it is time to bring a little Sunshine back into our lives!
This beautiful quilt detail is from the Tokyo Quilt Festival, and it features Yellow PomPoms, soaring Swallows and swirling Ribbons over a Turquoise/Blue medallion. I’ve pasted a photo of the quiltmaker’s name (from the Japanese artist statement) in the corner, and set it in a frame of Springy fabrics in stock now. I hope it brings you a smile today.
Friday I am headed to the Chicago Quilt Festival, to host our Love Your Mother exhibit. I will be giving a gallery talk in the exhibit at 2 pm on Saturday, along with 3 of the artists. Please come and see these beautiful 17 quilts, made with our Love Your Mother challenge fabrics, expressing feelings about what is happening to our Mother Earth.
Sunday I hop over to Cleveland, and will be in the Quilting Arts TV studio with Susan Brubaker Knapp on Monday. If you’d like to check out some of my previous appearances on QA TV, check out our video page.
We have 6 workshops and 1 Polar Bear Tour available for registration now…details below. The $1000 eQuilter discount is still available for a few more spots on the Polar Bear tour, but going fast!
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
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eQuilter Classroom & Travel Calendar:
Mar 28-30 – ‘Love Your Mother’ exhibit at Spring Quilt Festival in Chicago
Apr 1 – Quilting Arts TV, Cleveland
Apr 12-14 – Jean Wells for FRCQ workshop – in eQuilter Classroom
April 20 – Charity Sewing Group – EWB Nepal Presentation – RSVP
Apr 23-29 – Nantes France (lecture Fri 4/26)
May 16-19 – Quilt Market
May 24-25 – Dairy Barn – Quilt National Opening – Athens OH
June 11-15 – Quilt Canada Ottawa – (lecture Fri 6/14)
June 27-30 – Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli – Altar Quilts & Embellished Garments Workshops
July 11-14, 2019 – Cindy Lohbeck – Shibori, Ice-Dyeing and Ombre Dyeing Workshops
Oct 8-10 – Jacqueline de Jonge – eQuilter Classroom
Oct 17-22 – Polar Bear Tour – REGISTER NOW!
