Tilkunviilaaja®

This post is part of my Splendid colour tips series, where I share helpful information to help you choose fabrics and colours with more confidence. In this post, I share my thoughts and practical tips about the use of red in quilting and use my own quilts and quilted items as examples. In this post you’ll discover: how different reds can behave next to green, neutrals, and other reds common colour-contrast problems when sewing with red (and how to avoid them) reliable ways to combine red fabrics successfully in your own quilts Red colour represents passion, energy, excitement and danger. It is a vibrant colour and so effective, that only a small piece is often enough to draw the eye in a quilt. Because red represents passion, it is a great colour choice for a quilt meant for the love of your life. It is said that the red centre square in the traditional log cabin block is a symbol of the hearth and warmth of home. I’ve not sewn many log cabin quilts and do not remember if I...

Hello hello! Welcome to have a peek in my sewing studio! Lately, I’ve been busy sewing patchwork surfaces into quilted zipper bags, and this post introduces the first of those finishes. I’ve called it Legato, which is a music term meaning “tied together” – that the notes are to be played or sung smoothly without a silence between one note and another. I used to play the piano in my childhood and youth, so the notation and the term became familiar to me. Legato felt like the right name choice because of the way the petals of the coneflower blend into the neighbouring reds in this surface. The other side of the Legato quilted zipper bag is constructed in a similar way – around a focal fabric piece – but the orientation is horizontal: Both surfaces are a rarity for me because I built them using the quilt-as-you-go method. The surface ends up looking as if it has not been quilted though it has, and I’m not sure how I feel about the look. In some earlier projects, I have added qu...