"Creating With Color" featuring Patricia Knoechel

[Music] good morning what a great day what a great day to learn about color huh so I brought my special guest that I want you to meet my sister Patty and smile look at the camera so this is the way the story goes so I'm gonna tell him a little story I was born at the end of the war right 1945 I was the second one paddy was the third one 15 months after I was born my dad was home and boy was he happy but did you know I was conceived the instant he arrived home my mother did tell me so she's like oh my goodness I didn't think they did that so this is really fun there were four girls there was Cathy there was Eleanor there was Patty and there was Judy so that was good huh and my dad would not give up until finally the boy came and so now that makes patty the middle child did you have problems with that your whole life I did I'm not always our lane everything was hand-me-down I never had my own bicycle it was hand-me-down and the clothes they didn't fit me but I wore them anyway I remember I remember our outfit from our aunt Susie it was so beautiful it was a purple sweater as I remembered she remembers different but I remember oh I remember you with the plaid wool skirt and there were three of us that could wear it and three days out of the week at the zillion opal high school somebody had that outfit on that's true yeah we used to share clothes in college with our roommates no we don't do that anymore I don't think I which if I could just get in here so I am a little story about you yeah and I think you all have seen this book before yeah we we were able to write kind of congratulations on your 40th anniversary and this is my message I know you've read you've read it in the book I've never read it to you Eleanor you are my hero not only are you my sister my hero my inspiration and my friend and I followed your footsteps throughout my life and what a wonderful trail to follow so as it turns out as it turns out I turned out to be very good at following and I followed Eleanor through high school we shared the same bedroom summer summer kiss and dad maybe no well yeah Judy and I anyway we did have twin beds when we got over and then I followed you to college right and bro she went to Edinburgh College and the next year I was right behind her they assigned us to the same dorm on the same floor she couldn't get rid of me until so I haven't a roommate in college Carolyn was transferring to Kent State she heard they had a wonderful art department so I went with her so I followed Carolyn and I did go to Kent State graduated with a Bachelor Fine Arts and then you know after graduation did you have that dilemma what am I going to do now it's just what should I do well I followed my sister Duty for a while so Judy had this great idea she wanted to go to college in Daytona Beach Florida and I thought oh that sounds pretty good the beach the Sun or should I stay in Pennsylvania snow winter Wow obviously I made the choice Judy and I moved to Florida my dad gave us the old for I remember a station wagon loaded it up moved to Florida I even got a job as an art teacher taught in the elementary school for three years and then Judy actually graduated and she went to Hollywood Florida but she left and then I had a friend another art student she was moving to Atlanta and she said oh you'll love it Lana there's all the single people there so I followed my friend Mary Ann went to Atlanta and when I trance when I went to Atlanta I tried to get a job teaching art but they they would not accept my my Florida teaching credentials you know you you just have to get certification in each state so I they said we'll go to graduate school and then and then we'll give you a job so I started going Georgia State and I was getting a master's in art education and with all my education classes I was taking lots of art classes fun classes they were crafts I was doing weaving and pottery and we had one class it was called fiber arts and we were doing all types of you know things with with fabric and we had acres come in and showing us different techniques so this woman came in and she said today we have a quilter as our speaker and she brought in a hoop and a needle and thread and she started doing hand quilting and I thought oh my gosh I'll never be a quilter that was my immediate reaction I I am NOT going to be a quilter so anyway as it turned out I had to write a book because it as part of my my master's program you have to do a master's thesis and I didn't know what to write about so this is what I have to show Eleanor and I don't know if you knew this I wrote a book and I didn't even know where it was I wasn't sure if I could find it I want to find out what year I wrote it so I found me there it is I said what year was that 1979 40 years ago 40 so anyway so so I had to you know when you have to write a paper at that time in your life you have no idea what am I going to be when I grow up but I got an idea now Eleanor was in California and I'm in Atlanta and our lives were running parallel to each other because I wrote this book now guess what it's still black and white no color and there's not even a mention of the word quilt in the book but I wrote this it's a really long title developing expressive self-confidence in adults a theoretical model do you know what that means it's a master's thesis and yeah and this was not fun this was not the kind of thing that I did not speak this language and oh I was so miserable but there was a good side to it every time I would finish a chapter I just wanted to celebrate so I had this great friend his name is Tom you might know him know Tom turned out to be my husband but every time I would finish a chapter Tom let's go celebrate I finished a chapter and we we always went to TGI Fridays and now you're not going to believe what I had to celebrate every time here no I had a beer and a grasshopper wrestle because they put a scoop of chocolate ice cream and I always started that was my first thing I ate and then I had dinner at any time every time I did a new chapter Tom and I would go out and celebrate so I had a lot of grasshoppers and he kept wondering when are you going to finish this thing but we kept celebrating without in love so that was a good thing that came out of it but anyway to to explain what is this all about I it's an it's teaching craft to adults I had no no clue that Elinor was going to be she wrote a book it was a best-seller she sold thousands hundred thousand copies of your first book and I wrote one book itself I don't think yeah I don't think it was for sale but but anyway I I reread it recently and I learned some things it was I thought you know this is pretty good and the thing that really interested me was how the creative process works and that's kind of part of what we're doing when we're creating with color so yes I this book first and then later I remember I'm really good at following so l and l kind of I don't know she encouraged me but back in 1985 I'm kind of embarrassed by it because it's it's not very it's not very modern show the cover on it oh yeah it's kind of goofy but and the photograph is worse but fortunately it's out of print so nobody has to see it this is the only copy but I did I did do an improvement I don't think this one's out of print also see I could donate a couple books for a door prize later if you want to get a goofy book and I'll sign it for you well I have a few of these so anyway this this bait this was the basis the only part that I really liked was the color information the the quilts are just so primitive I mean that's embarrassing to me yeah that's a that's kind of a silly looking quilt to me but at the time well I'm better but but anyway and we've all gotten better but I did all the illustrations there was a vest pattern in the back but the part that that I did save is what you have in your hand this is this is a booklet with just the color information and this is a guide for quilters and with just a few I I think working with color is not hard I think it's the most fun part of making the quilt and with just a few basic concepts you can you can do great and I know that all of you are doing great and every time you make a quilt don't you get better each time sorry so anyway do you want to talk about the color wheel very simple simple this is just a basic color wheel and you know you can get lots of fancy color wheels there's a pocket size there's this one has oh it's just got all kinds of stuff but I personally don't use this but some of you might and then let's see there's other color wheels but this is just basic where you see the relationship of all the colors and I know you all know this because you learned it in elementary school what are the three primary colors yeah red yellow blue and they form a triangle these are kind of the these colors you can you can make all the other colors from these three colors when you mix two primaries let me see I thought I learned this a long time ago okay mix yellow and blue and you get green yellow and red we get orange and then green let's see red and blue Thank You oh good okay and then mix a primary and a secondary you get a tertiary and those are all the colors with two names yellow green blue green blue violet red violet and then let's see we have the warm colors on one half we have these colors we consider warm the other half we consider cool colors and then complementary colors are opposite yeah any two colors of blue and orange are complements the most popular complement is red and green purple and yellow and those are things they just kind of help you understand how the colors relate to one another analogous colors are adjacent side by side you can do anywhere from three to five colors adjacent and you caught we call it analogous yeah the see now the next page we talk about value and I I think you all know you all understand now you its lightness or darkness so this is the twin size quilt it's in the book you might have seen it but I did start with my color choices I actually started with a jelly roll because it had all these flower colors I love the colors in the flowers the leaves were all this kind of a minty green which I used on the log cabin which you you all recognize the gradation as the colors flow from light kind of to this is kind of a medium light to a medium to a medium dark to a dark and then on the light side they do get increasingly darker unless you want to do all one color for all your lights I almost wish I had done all lights because you can really see the quilting but then I discovered when I paid my quilter you know the quilting was half as much as her quilting you know with the custom quilting you pay a lot more so this this was a this was a budget quilting job but anyway so when you look at the blocks creating the blocks I wanted to use a different value in each in each block and you can look for example in this block you can see the very darkest the red and then the next dark would be green and then this red and then that one and then that one that one so each one is a different value and that's how you get the most depth in your blocks just by adding different values here's another one you can you can find the darkest and then the next one and then this and this and that so that's kind of what I look for when I'm putting the blocks together darkest and then the next one the next one next one and that now some of the other blocks for example this block just to me it doesn't have the dimension it looks more flat because you don't have the full range of the values and then here do we this one did we look at that one dark yeah and then this one and here's another one let's go to the green so you can always find the values and this is a good exercise for you when you're looking at your fabrics line them up in order from darkest to the lightest and that will give you the most depth okay that's oh good that's good okay here's another another block another quilt and oh we thought you're going to have the day off okay oh and this gee I wonder what the pattern is we just made a convenient for you if you think hey I want to make that quilt you might find there is a pattern when you see Eleanor's face on the pattern you know you can make that quilt and this is the split nine patch and again we're always working with two different types of value we have contrasting and I forgot to call me on the first quilt did you see contrasting and gradation and that's a nice nice thing to look for with value you want to have your your that dark next to light you see the contrast and that defines your pattern with the contrast and then you know if everything was dark light dark light dark light it would just be too busy but if you have areas with very subtle changes in value this is a resting point for the eye this way you see the contrast in the darker areas and then the lighter areas for just more great you know more subtle value changes so that's that's the split 9-patch break will to use your scraps two and a half inch squares there's just two blocks I don't know if you've done this but we have the a block and the B block the a blocks all the seams press let's see a I I always had to remember this if it's an a block you press it in think a I like artificial intelligence the B Block you press out Bo so those are those are the ways I remember okay okay so you can take it away here's another one you're all familiar with the autumn leaves this is something they just did with the Accu quilt so a little bit different yeah a little bit different with the Accu quilt cutter you you get a slightly different design and I think you all can see Theresa's quilt which I really love her quilt she did notice on her lattice how the colors graduate that was the best of we just loved it when she did that she just laid out from light to dark so it really adds interest it gives movement to the colors and something and and one thing we do look for by selecting three fabrics for the leaf we recommend that the values just flow softly we have light medium and dark you know if you have this is very light on top you don't see the leaf as a complete shape so by keeping your values very close it defines the shape here's the the big one this is the the larger version yeah you can tell if there's purple that patty needed but but here I did combine the smaller values the smaller blocks with the with the larger size just for fun and I do love the boutiques in the background they just give it so much depth and richness so and the quilting is great too yeah yeah Amy did the quilting okay now here's a quilt where I need to improve and I I do like to show my least successful quilts because I I think there's something that I that I wasn't completely happy with and this is a quilt that guess who designed it Teresa this was Theresa's design is called patches of life and I really enjoyed doing it I had all these pastel boutiques but I just couldn't find the right purple after I did it I felt that the purple was a little bit too dark if you notice the values there's not a lot of medium range there's very dark and then very soft and I felt that if perhaps this was lighter and the next time I make it I'm going to do what she did I wanted to change the color of the dark where we can start dark in the center and then get lighter as each round as we move out the colors can lighten up and I think that would just give it more interest so did you all follow that yeah okay okay now value we have different types of value there's let's see color yeah yeah we'll open this here I made this for Gretchen yeah this is the the color wheel and this was one of the one of the patterns that I designed and as you can see it's the whole rainbow of color and here we start with four and a half inch strips this obviously has been cut cut up but you can just sew the half strips together and it forms a tube and then we'll cut apart every four and a half inches and Unsoeld in this case it looks like this first one it was unsewn right in the middle in the middle of the strip and then the next time it was just cut right at the seam so each one is offset by a half of a strip have to have some of you done this before and we we actually Teresa teaches us to the beginning students but you can see how the colors graduate and what I like with the rainbow is you naturally get lights while you get lights and mediums and darks so the rainbow gives you naturally different values so so there's that one and then since we have the next quilt value change let me just show you this so I remember when I did this yeah this one does not have the white strips you know I like I like putting the white between the rows because it defines the colors it clarifies them it makes them brighter actually but this one there is no white strips between them this was Sue's version and I remember when I did this I had it laid out on the floor there were so many pieces that I just laid it out and you know when I plan a quilt I do it over time I had it all laid out and every time I would walk by fortunately I live alone I guess that I don't know that's a good good thing that I my quilts take over but every time I would walk by I would move something and that's kind of how I give it the time to you know just to feel the gradation and here you can see how the gradation flows from the darkest and then we're getting lighter and lighter and lighter did it today what's your little thing you do and then when you find a quilt you really love then you do the miniature version you know this is here it is again oh I don't care and then we have the rainbow version yeah I love to use all the colors and on this one I was thinking of triptych you know in art history you see many of those triptychs so I thought I'll just make it a triptych and a triptych as three panels yeah in in oh I don't know when they did this I think a lot of it was in religious religious art they would have three panels and sometimes they would open up you know the tooth the tooth there were hinges and they were open they would open out so that's kind of what I don't know where I get these ideas I just thought just you know and this is the the little folded border oh yeah right here oh yeah it just always is a nice addition separate yeah so this is little little teacup I'm a little teacup and now that's a teapot anyway okay this is a little teacup quilt let's see if I co Mint notices anything on here I asked I coach she would show me how to do applique and she showed me how but she wouldn't let me do it she did it herself she I was thrilled yeah she appliquéd the little hearts on to it but anyway this is just something that I did now when you talk about intensity I want you I want it's a tick tick oh yes you remember your pictures on it okay now yeah if I take Theresa did this one that's the pattern it's just did you oh okay so I want to show you a comparison don't keep that one there I want it we're going to talk about intensity and I think you're going to see what I'm talking about here did you notice the difference in intensity obviously these are more intense and this is also Teresa designed the birdhouse I think you made the quilt because I didn't want to make all this flying geese so I did so I but this is a collection it's called Orion you want to help me out what's the name of this collection Zoey Christine named for Orion's daughter Zoey we had Eliane and then we did the Zoey Christine and the colors as you can see the and you know with a collection the designer does all the work for you they put the colors together keeping them in the same range of intensity and can you believe those are pretty much the same color families we we have the red colors and then these obviously these are the purest form of the color these are what we call the shades or sometimes we call them tones or dirty colors or whatever you want to call them but generally you want to keep combining similar degree of intensity I don't know if I put let's see now I thought this one was a little bit bright so I did the the Patty version yeah i had fabric with birds and I decided oh I did a few changes I I cut out the birds and I gave them a home so but this was fun it had polka dots people wonder are those buttons where did I get it oh I got it years ago at the road the road to California that's and this was a border striped and it had the birds and so much fun I really really had fun with it and I think when you add maybe some black or gray it tones down the brightness on you on the collars so we did the birdhouse for my dad Oh whenever he was gonna retire my mom was so worried but he started building birdhouses and he never never bothered her okay now here's one let me see who knows the name of this one this one goes back a few years does anybody remember up no clues yeah yeah what's a car say it now yes hole in the wall this was Theresa our notice with Sue's sue designed the hole in the wall and that was so popular we thought it was so simple and when this fabric line came out we thought it was the brightest thing we had ever seen up to that point and I I put it together and when I look at the colors I think there's so much movement you know the complementary colors the red and the green intensify one another and your eye kind of moves from one color to the next there's so much movement and brightness and it's just the white makes it you know clarifies the colors now when when I did this quilt a second time you can hold on to that because when I did it the second time I said oh I think I'll do something different and if you notice this it looks gives a totally different look it's cool colors yes those are very warm and if you notice where you see the white and the first quilt this one you see that kind of like a periwinkle and it looks like it's at like a secondary pattern and then and then Eleanor do you want to point to a block at the top of the corner yeah and then circle the block yeah round the block okay that's that is what the block it's like an 18 inch block now what I did and obviously I had to plan it I took the I would put four blocks where they come together I would put a matching fabric so it gives that like a you know a totally different look looks like this is the pattern and it's very pretty yeah thank you and I do have you know when I travel I that's what I do I guess I don't know if you all know this but I would go on the road actually after I started quilting I went on the road for thirty years all over the country six months of the year and now I don't know if you came to Sue's program and she mentioned how she she would do a variation on a quilt but she was afraid to bring it and show it to Eleanor Eleanor it's a keep it in the car because she didn't want to have to write directions so so if you get the Bob if you get the birdie what's a hole-in-the-wall pattern you get a little bonus okay one more one more quilt with intensity this one it was appeared in quilts through the seasons and this is a cornucopia so we did one block for every or one quilt for every month of the year I wonder what month this must be let's try November and the cornucopia let's see autumn do you think it's in here okay well then the nice oh I found yeah the nice thing with this book if you're looking for something you just look on the paper on the edge of the paper and there is a fade photo of the actual quilt so here's the cornucopia and I see it's got a table runner Thanksgiving you got to have a table runner but I don't know what happened I mind turned into I don't know I wanted to put a window with a curtain and I just had fun with it but when you if you notice on this one these colors are more of the the grade colors and you you want to be careful with the intensity you know with the grade colors if you use a really intense yellow what do you think would that just be too too overpowering and yellow is the color that normally in a quilt when you look you'll see the yellow normally will be the most intense but you want it maybe got not too intense here I went with a softer gold and then if you notice there's a little skate in the window and when you're doing a landscape you want to consider objects in at the bottom which is the the foreground and and just think of this when you're looking out you know at a landscape too at the mountains or wherever things that are close you'll see more detail in in the design or the fabric and then as things get farther off in the distance they're more less less detail they're more faded more grade actually so those are things to consider oh I forgot to use my pointer things to consider with the landscape okay so that's the oh you want to play a little bit let's see this is called Patty's color play and we're gonna put it right up here there's no pattern for this it's it just came from my wherever but yeah but I wanted to show you that colors are relative they are affected by whatever you see next to it and for example on missile and each one of these tells a little color story like I see as little vignettes and I decided to make some little just some little squares that we can play with and see how the colors change so first of all this block in the corner you see Oh an orange and kind of a pinky orange and then there's the the white frame now these are the same colors but instead of the white there is another color and you see the difference this color just gets lost it does and when you sort when you give it some space put some background that allows the colors to interact with one another backgrounds are very important you know we don't normally think of these as colors but the whites the blacks the beige the grey these are very important because they give the the colors room to interact with one another so here you can see that's an each one of these I did separate with just a little little light frame you know that's why when you put a photo sometimes you put a little frame around it now on this one let's just see what happened well you know you can try them now these would be I would consider kind of analogous colors are adjacent on the color wheel they're side-by-side now when you put a an opposite color like something opposite on the color wheel let's see what happens yeah these are like kind of complements orange and well orange and blue well let's try this one but things are always going to change relative to what you put next to it here let's put this one in the middle and they kind of vibrate when you put them together you know we can just change everything you know if you can't decide that's the problem with a quilt once you do it it's you're stuck with it you can't really change it but here you can just you know I could put this on my wall every day I could move things around play a little game I don't know but but anyway I just had the fun I just had fun doing it and so you see the get the point about colors let's see let's put a little contrast in this one see what happened I don't know I kind of like that you know the analogous colors are more harmonious sometimes we what think one things to just just relax and harmonize or sometimes you want them to show contact contrast and they kind of act they just they interact with one another okay there's the good thank you do you have any questions are you kidding okay so I'm next topic is well let's see fabric combining this is monochromatic these are types of combinations this is probably the easiest to use what do we call this monochromatic mono means one color this is called those so radiant yeah this is one that I designed and this one with one fabric you you you and plus your neutral and if you there they can be kind of boring but if you add different textures different values scales then you can add interest but this is a good way to learn value because you don't have to think about the other colors you can just work with different values of one color and I got a little let's see what the word I got a little creative and I just it just ran right off the edge but if if you don't want to do that you can just take that off and give it a different look okay so that's the monochromatic this one also one color this is called moon dance this is one of Sue's designs and what we love is that ruler do you all see how the the illusion of curves and the blocks just appear to dance across across the quilt and it's that that triangle and a square ruler which we love that gives that illusion and and with Sue's directions she suggests nine values of one color or nine fabrics she used all Reds I had lots of purples so I did it in purples and then she does suggest one accent which on my quilt I used kind of a blue violet for the accent I've had trouble finding purples lately you know I used to use got them all up I did my signature color was purple for years I was out of control every time I made a quilt got to get this purple God have purple and then I just somehow haven't been finding a lot of nice Purple's but but they are you know I still like to do purples and rainbow colors okay let's go on after we talked about monochromatic let's talk about warm and cool you know what this is this is yeah this is more of I would call these colors will you tell me what would you call this red and green are complements opposites on the color wheel it they intensify one another when you put them on your quilt you're kind of they vibrate I don't know do you see vibrate vibration they're kind of move from the purple to the red and it's because they're opposites and this is didn't did we show the book I don't know did you show it's on the back cover of the radiant star yeah and with this again you see the gradation from the from the darkest red getting lighter and then we transition into the greens and that's how we get the design and I did a little variation I put something in the corner normally this would be a solid a solid square but I just wanted to fill up the space I had a stripe you know sometimes you have a fabric you want to use okay the next one is also reds and greens you know traditionally we think of red and green as the Christmas colors and this is a little different from the victory book nice if Eleanor remembers I do remember you saying you didn't really like fourth of July red white and blue you had the do something different oh yeah but how about this that what's the name of that block yes skyrocket skyrockets in flight afternoon delight that's what I call my quilt but this one again you see the red in the green these are a little more subdued than the others but something I I liked about this was all the textures you know you have your your contrasting values here these will stand out against the light background and then we have movement created with the repetition of the squares and what I like are all the different textures combining stripes and plaids and it is just a fun fun thing that I did oh and guess what it's very fussy fussy fussy yeah very fussy I'm sure I started with the pinks and the Greens yeah the pinks and the Greens again these were all in those similar colors I think you can see it yeah yeah okay now complementary colors again what's the complement of blue orange and this is called storm at sea lots of blue in the sea so with with the addition of the orange it kind of balances that's what we want in the colors we want to balance if you have too much one color you add a touch of the complement and that just catches your eye and as you can see you want to have that color spaced evenly throughout your quilt or that that's just what I did in this case you might have another plan and then as you can see didn't you notice some of them our lighter it's always fun to show if this were all dark blue I think it would just be too dark so I wanted to add some of the lighter pieces and this again this is that triangle and a square ruler that always gives you the the curvy effect okay so what about purple the complement the complement of purple is yellow yeah too much purple you add some yellow to it and this was in the All Star quilt this was the mystery quilt a few years ago and I really like Eleanor she thought I actually thought I'm going to teach that feathered star and she did it very something she had been wanting to do for years and then she brought in all the celebrities from all over all over yeah all over the quilting world the celebrities each had a quilt pattern named in their honor and you can see all the pictures on the con the cover okay so here we have warm and cool combinations where you'll take some fabrics from the warm side of the color wheel and then the cool side and you all recognize the log cabin there's ELLs book the yeah it looks familiar yep we just finished this book now something that I did you notice I wanted to have that one simple big star standout as the focal point and Emily as you notice she did the same kind of a star it's so impressive when you see that big it gives you your contrast you know you've got your contrasting value light next to dark defines the star and then we have the gradation which gives you this value change and what I did was I tried to put a little bit of the warm color in with the cool and then here we see a little bit of the cool in with the warm so it ties it all together thank you yeah oh did you show the back the quilting that quilting is so spectacular she did yes definitely it is beautiful not to think of that yeah she said you do Jack okay this one is the round about stars and here again looks like more curves there's that ruler again are trying on a square and the round about star has two alternating blocks the the warm collar and then the cool color and they kind of again that they kind of the on the on a background they interact with one another your eye kind of moves it it's kind of adds a lot of interest combining warm and cool and this one well it's just warm and cool and then oh and there are some value contrasts also you can see dark mediums and lights so it gives it some depth by having changes in value now the probably one of the easiest ways to pick your fabrics by starting with a multicolor and this was in the let's see we have an another book it must be we're going to else attic another book another you've been busy gal so yeah this is called the crow's nest and as you can guess I started and I know Gretchen you noticed yeah I did start with this fabric it's always fun it makes it easy if you begin with a multicolor and then you can draw from the colors and it ties it all together and then you want to mix different values of that one color we have the light pinks into the deeper deeper magenta shades of grey and then some greens and as you notice let's just put this here and see if you can find another quilt that would be it that would be it so what do you think what about the fabric have you seen it before did you show them this fabric not too much so good representation of the fussy cuts yeah oh yes very large fussy cut and this one instead of 9 blocks it's got four no five piece blocks and four fussy cuts and they were going for the romantic Victorian look and what's old is new again of course and you know Eleanor had to think of a name for this collection so we're from a very small Victorian town in Pennsylvania called zillion opal and sounds funny that name but the founding fathers named his daughters illy Ann and meet Julianne that's the name of the collection so in which is my beautiful home and zillion opal and her garden in the back spanned from one Street clear through to the next streets Oh blah of a garden wow that wonderful yeah so anyway we're just playing benartex wanted us to make some quilts so I know Eleanor Eleanor sees it as very she said if we show it to a group it's kind of it doesn't have it's a low contrast quilt and maybe in the back of the room you might not see it but I personally like low contrast in my home a quilt on my bed I like low contrast for some that's just my preference right yeah exactly yeah that's what I like to see and then as you can see there this is also kind of the same stripe and this was done with our scalloped vines and wave ruler which I think some of you will recognize that ruler so that's kind of the same fussy cut I believe maybe it's this one here maybe maybe not I can't remember okay here's here's some more large scale here we start with cute little dressed and play yeah this is the mini Dresden there's a nice little wedge template included and if you like to just sit and relax this is a TV quilt it's just relaxing a lot kind of busy work but turn on a movie and and you can do is very cute okay and this is another one oh and one more thing yellow is always a nice background color I really like the look sometimes you don't always want to use a like a like a white or background so try yellow and but you want to use a very soft yellow yeah here's more yellow yellow with this was just a border fabric I think I got this in Pennsylvania yeah I went to a quilt shop in the Poconos and they always give me a fabric do you know Poconos Poconos sewing back in Stroudsburg okay big shop when I would go there they'd always give me a prize a reward for coming and they gave me this free fabric and I just liked the colors and then from there I I might have had a chi think it must have been a collection but this one is called the it's the layer K it's the crazy quilt yeah okay oh look we have a few more to show okay so that yeah you've seen this yeah you might all have this this is 40 fabulous years and now not not everybody wants to make all those log cabins I didn't always want to do all the log cabins so you can just select and choose any of your favorite blocks and just put it together with any setting of your choice oh this was more free fabric oh my goodness this was part of the fat quarter club that Martha would cut up and give send out if you're in the club you would get every month you would get a packet of fat quarters from one collection these were leftovers and she just looked at this fabric and she said oh look at those fussy cuts it's got to be a patty patty fabric oh look so so what I did I had all these fabulous cuts and I decided I measured each fussy cut and then I looked for a block with that size Center square and that's how how it evolved so there there it is that and these are analogous colors which you you understand analogous adjacent on the color wheel Thank You Teresa yeah and these are all just basically blues and greens blue blue green oh yeah that was also part of the collection yeah that was very pretty okay the next quilt this is also analogous yeah this is called thousand pyramids one of the sued sued designs and there's different covers on the pattern this one you can see I did this with I kind of turned him into stars but the analogous colors as you can see on the range I think I I went pretty far let's see on the on the analogous you know I was reading and I I did not even think about the color wheel when I did it but sometimes I think oh should there only be three colors and then I expanded it and then I read somebody's book she said no you can have seven colors in in range so I went from the the yellow green all the way to the red violet and I feel like it has a lot of depth and especially love this little was my my inspiration was fabric that little diagonal print 60-degree and equilateral triangle to make this and I remember when I did this we have to lay out one row at a time you just start with the top you lay it out line them up and then you do the next row so what I did I took my ironing board and I cut all those triangles and you have this long board and adjustable height so you can just bring that right over to your design wall and just take those fabrics and audition them as you line them up in a row so that's my that's my that was how I did it but but yeah now just for comparison this next quilt yeah you can move that down just hold on for a minute this quilt has the same colors but I think it looks flat and I'll tell you this quilt it's the braid in a day what do you think look oh I like it too but I I somehow think that one has more lights and darks to me it has more dimension now unfortunately I've been a bad person I abused this quilt I found it in my garage in a box and this box has been for years taped up and forgotten and I had three boxes that I didn't even know were there and I opened the box and I didn't even know what was in there and I realized they're all my braid quilts oh oh and I thought well why are they in this box but then I found there were some clues in it there was a road atlas to 2013 it's been a long time and there were seashells in the box I thought what and then I remember oh yes I went to Florida in 2013 and I did the braid workshop so I went to Sanibel and did the stoop if any of you have done the Sanibel stoop you just pick up seat lots of seashells so anyway that's that's the story about why this quilt just just to me it looks a little bit sad okay and then again I did tell you about my passion for purple here's this was from tales of first ladies and I just put together some purples and that was my favorite combination purples and greens every quilt I just loved it so these are little miniatures and you can see you know all the things we've been talking about as far as value and intensities and textures so once I got over my purple passion then I started this site I said well you know I love every color I like to use every color of the rainbow so so many of my recent quilts I have been using every color and different ways to combine and this I think you reckon not oh the Mexican star okay do you have it the Mexican star which each star is kind of in a color family you see kind of the blue-green family and then with a contrasting color in the center these are more of the red red violet and then we have the orange to red and then more red violet oh they're called there were two of each yeah two of each and then I tried something just for fun did you notice that little shadow and I said I want to try this because it kind of gives dimension you know if you pick up any one of these books and look at a picture of a block or a quilt Marit always puts that little shadow so it looks dimensional and that's what I was going for with this quilt just just something fun now only two sides you know like an attic windows it's all he on two sides so it gives it a little dimension I just thought I would try it and see if anybody noticed yeah I can see it in there okay so this was a quilt that we talked about earlier the it's the split nine patch and Theresa did can you hold that please Theresa she did her variation she wanted to make it look modern for her for her daughter's and you see the colors starting with the purple and it just makes a spiral as you go through the rainbow - purple - blue blue green blue with yellow and then orange to red and whenever you want to do a variation you can photocopy put it on your copy machine and enlarge and lighten to gray and make a photocopy and then you can color in this is how you can plan plan your quilt like that okay here's another couple more rainbows now this is a block that you might recognize it's in it's in this book which block is it it's the Kentucky chain and I am fascinated with that block because when you make multiple blocks you see like looks woven or or kind of like a chain or or a trellis here let's just put this up here I thought oh it looks like a trellis so I did three blocks kind of looked like a garden garden trellis and I I had to put flowers my parents always had the clematis growing up their trellis so I did some kind of quick no so well no much no hand so these are two fabrics sewn turn right side out and just stitch right down the middle once it's quilted stitch down the middle same with the leaves so they're dimensional now there there were some things I felt maybe there should be a little more contrast you know how you can critique your own work I thought maybe it needed a little more contrast here and then when I did this one I wished I had used the darker the darker colors like the Reds and the purples are darker and I thought maybe if I had had the red purple through the middle it might have more color that was just my my own critique that you know we all like to do that critique our own work okay now let's talk about oh there's another rainbow hiding behind did y'all see that quilt is sous-sous designed it her maiden name was hatched for hatch hatch so she did this cute little pattern called hatched but I kind of changed it the naughty sister I don't follow directions I I decided to I just changed if you notice this was designed to show any large-scale fabrics if you don't want to cut them up into little pieces that you use they're fairly good sized pieces and I did line up in in the rainbow color and then that gray to kind of soften the brightness I did the gray but I didn't do it as wide and I almost think it looks like two two patterns going on with that little gray it reminds me a little railroad tracks or like you're like you're moving or something and then the colors are moving so so that's the hatched okay next quilt I want to talk about oh and this fabric oh look at that the fabric is an ombre and I did use this fabric now I don't know if this boat has been in the shop hotel if you can hold that a minute I don't know if this boat has been in the store a really long time I made that a couple of years ago what do you think I don't know if we reordered it but but it is the same age right but people say well shops tell me they look at the ombre and they say oh I don't want that they don't know what to do with it but I really like the ombre and I feel you can get a lot of different fabrics from just one one slice of fabric so I did use it on the border and then there's there's one more thing I want to talk about and that is transparency if you take two two shapes for example you can take maybe a darker and then a lighter green and if you use these in your quilt where those shapes overlap if these fabrics were transparent we would get a medium green so that's the effect that that I like to try to achieve and here you can do it with like three three shades of one color dark and light make medium or maybe two colors we take blue blue and lavender what do you get blue violet yeah kind of something like that so you can create special effects and here's another one if you're gonna do like a square in a square if you had a dark and a light you get a medium if you mix these two think of them maybe if they were paint blue and violet makes blue violet so that gives that effect transparency here's another one that you can see green the dark medium light so I did well here's another one this is also from the Mexican star and you can kind of see it kind of gives that impression of transparency in the center where we have light and white and dark makes kind of a medium where they overlap for these two shapes overlap it's kind of a lighter version of that but the Mexican star is a big block it's 18 inch and then in the pattern we also have a twelve-inch which was the table runner we saw okay here's another one oops sorry yeah this is also the star the which started we call this gradient star so ready and you know this one is just very simple the the blocks you can see there's light on one side dark on the other dark down the middle and you put them together and just the way you turn and it kind of looks like stained glass and I feel like you could like see right through a window with the colors being very similar here they just kind of looked to me like transparent just in another another look okay last little tiny quilt so this is in quilt blocks on American Barn some of you if this goes back number of years and I took one of the barns and I transformed it into a church it was it was all the fabric you know I used to collect I used to do a lot of landscapes and I collected all types of fabric and this fabric had these special windows and I thought oh I can turn it into a church and then the trees if you notice and this was a project I didn't did it was like an all-night project i i i had a me my quilter i had her all set up i said my quilt i'm going to have it done saturday I'll bring it to you saturday morning started at Friday night had to stay up all night lunch but I got it done and something I like was do you see how the tree on against the light background it's I used a lighter part of the fabric so it looks like it's transparent and here's another one over here so that's that's the last quilt where this is what I learned from that book that I wrote the creative process the creative process according to whoever I researched you want to start with a combination or a balance of concentration and relaxation in other words it's play because you start out and often you do have a maybe you have a pattern that you want that you're thinking about and you you collect your fabric and and I like to bring as many fabrics as I can bring together the possibilities and for this quilt this is the quilt that I was supposed to have finished to show you today yes obviously I didn't get far yeah I went to Arizona for a couple weeks and they kept me busy but this quilt is let's see started with a multi color seems to be seems to be hiding I don't know where it is anyway so what I was thinking about doing was something with transparency and I manipulate the fabric you know if I'm doing a log cabin I just kind of try to fold it into shapes so that you can see the gradation that's how I that's how I plan my log cabin just folding it playing you stand back some people like to take a picture some people use their copy machine but I just kind of lay it out stand back and then I I let it sit and then I come back and look at it later and if it doesn't work then I try it and rearrange it but this was kind of what I was thinking for that transparency and I I did these last night I just started playing I should have gone to bed that I just started playing and once I start playing I can't stop do you see how that looks calm transparent with light medium dark and I could do this all day you know if you don't have time to make a quilt just play with your fabric and before you know it a couple hours have passed and fondle it and I don't think Eleanor has the time that I take the time this relaxes me this is my best therapy and you know your your mind relaxes your body relaxes and the stress disappears and it's great for your health so that's you know that's just kind of how I do it and then here's another one this fabric had two colors purples and greens so I was just playing you know maybe this could be my light medium maybe we'll do something like that or you can always show more of one color if I wanted to show more green you know you can be flexible and then maybe we could put that in the well you can do it any way you like that's for you to find out it's this discovery it's the trial and error it's auditioning and at some point now in the creative process at some point you flip from one minute you're making it happen and then you let it happen and that's where you get that serendipity thing where you know how you have a breakthrough when you're working on something you can't figure it out you know what I'm talking to you together and it just yes it clicks okay so that's kind of you know and when you're when you're putting your fabrics together look for similarities like you know these have similar colors but different values and you know we could try that with something or I could switch to something else this has some of this colors similar and it's just so much fun to play stripes make the best binding they do put them on on the diagonal yeah okay and then there's no rules about what goes together I believe no rules you can mix boutiques with non boutiques you see the colors in this are the same colors in this batik yes yeah so just look for similarities in the colors and I guess yeah that that's well there there is one last thing I I do want you all to notice my my favorite thing about color it's everywhere our environment is color from the minute you get up to the minute you go to bed you're making color decisions and in our homes in our food and the warm colors and I did a little just a little section this is what I have lived for lived through color color energies through use of color warm colors can energize I know el loves red and I know it gives her energy it does she goes from what time in the morning 5 something she works all day long and then to relax I don't know do you ever just switch to blue yeah I don't know but you know the cool colors are calming and green is great for if you're nervous if you're upset take a walk out in nature the green calms your nerves it green foods are good for your nerves magnesium and then the color yellow stimulates your brain left brain and the purple stimulates the right brain I think that's why I always like purple creativity and orange actually a lot of restaurants they use the orange to make it hungry but I I always drink my tea in an orange cup it helps me digest but anyway I I have these funny ideas but but the scientists did research and they found that different colors stimulate parts of the body so anyway what the right side is creative left brain yellow right on yellow legal pad yellow paper yellow highlighting pen we're just naturally drawn to those colors yeah [Applause] Thank You Tabuk well what do you think

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Published: Sat Mar 16 2019