Living in a place with a full four seasons is wonderful, but about this time of year (late February) I am DONE with winter. I am supposed to fly to Atlanta for QuiltCon in the morning but we have a snowstorm bearing down on us overnight. So we’ll just have to see what happens tomorrow. As a Gold sponsor, I am planning to be at the award ceremony Wednesday night. Hopefully we’ll get off the ground before we get big snow accumulations. I’ll be flying from single digits here, to 75 degrees in Atlanta. I always say that travel is the best test of our character. Expect things to go wrong, and when they don’t…be happy! When travel plans blow up….keep your sense of humor.
So I am going to focus on SPRING and that means pastels, blossoms, and songbirds. We’ve been busy stocking up on pastel solids, blenders, batiks and hand-dyes for your early Spring season. We’ve also created several fat quarter packets in these dreamy pastel colors, just in case you are missing this important section of values in your stash.
The more you quilt, the more you will find yourself wanting a wide range of values in your fabric collection. Jewel tones are luscious and irresistible, and we tend to pick up dark rich values in the Fall, but Springtime is a great time to think about bringing in those lighter tones, to set off the jewel tones and darker values in your quilt designs. Plus…they are just such happy sweet colors….they make me smile!
What do you think of when you look at pastel colors? I think of ice cream, buttercreme icing on birthday cakes, cherry blossoms, little girls in Easter dresses, and golden retriever puppies. They also remind me of my grandmother’s flower garden, and the perfume my mother wore when I was a little girl. The inside of our house is painted a pastel ‘Tiffany Blue’ because…it makes me happy.
Sharing your love of fabric,
Luana and Paul
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