Inspired by FreeSpirit, Kaffe Fassett Collective, February 2021

hey we're live on facebook welcome everybody uh we are we welcome all of our sewers our makers our quilting enthusiasts uh all types of uh creators we welcome you this week to our facebook live it is our inspired by series for free spirit fabrics i'm sharon thornton and we welcome you this week as we welcome you every week we love that you all tune in to see us i'd like to ask you all to let us know where you're tuning in from we'd love to know that if you have any questions about free spirit fabrics please go to freesparedfabrics.com and look us up you can see all kinds of information about the different fabric lines that we carry so we would love you to come in and check you know check us out and to also go in and look at our projects and our programs and all of the different events that we have that we're creating for our um sewing friends out there in the world so thank you for joining us um we are very excited this week we have kay fassett and brandon mabley are joining us they're going to talk with us about their february 2021 fabrics that are shipping to quilt stores now so we're very excited to have them we kicked off the new year this year with kaif and brandon on february 2nd and we're very excited to have them back again so we thank we thank them for uh joining us again i would like to hold on one second here i'm not sure i'm getting messages um hold on well i'm going to keep going until i get any more messages so i would like to tell you about the quilts that are behind me this quilt over here on the right is done out of the fabrics that are delivering and this will be uh this is called directions this that's the name of this quilt it is made and designed by tammy silvers of tambourines i don't know if you could see the quilt a little bit better if i turn my screen and then the other one over here is called logging trail and she made and designed that one also and it's out of the fabrics that are being delivered now that kate and brandon are going to talk a bit more about so i'd like to let you know that information so go to tamarinis.com if you're interested in those patterns and my top is zappy dots so the enchanted pattern and it's zappy dots so if you are interested in any of cafe and brandon's and phillips uh designs you can go to zappy dots and pick all types of different uh stand up oh you want me to stand up there it is so it's a great top they're very comfortable lots of different uh patterns so go on out there and take a look um so i would like to say that uh lindsey dryden and nancy joel be on and they'll be answering questions and putting up links of anything that we're talking about today if you have any questions please you know send them through we will do our best to answer some questions as we go through and then i would like to let you know that i am tuning in from sunny north carolina we have had a month full of rain brandon and kate i don't know what you guys have over there in london if it's if it's raining or you've seen any sun this month or not but i'm very happy that we finally have some sunshine here and uh so i know it's like five o'clock where you guys are at and it's around noon time where we're at here in eastern standard time can we see it can they hear us they can hear you yes yes okay brandon i'm going to turn the screen over to you and cave okay there you go you guys are on so i would like to welcome you brandon is on screen now i know kate will be joining in shortly so thank you for joining us we are so thrilled to have you and we have a lot of viewers that are watching right now and so we're very excited to have everybody with us um all of our viewers as well as you guys so i'm gonna turn it over to you right now they can see you and they can hear me okay welcome welcome um i know i got people listening in from holland uh from italy um i last webinar that we gave there were over 20 000 people that tuned in so i welcome and embrace you all thank you very much for being a big part of our world it's incredibly exciting for keith and i because we sit here in our humble home and put together arrangements of color in all these morad pattern and color mediums that we do and then throw them out into the world and you guys just embrace it in your own way and it it's it's just absolutely enthralling um i must say what's kept us saying through this waste stereo in the state of lockdown where we're only allowed out outdoors for one hour a day but what's kept us sane is one keeping a healthy diet but two a regular routine of pilates and that has been become a huge big part in our life um and they become our friends and kind of part of our family because it's helped given us a bit of a structure uh in our week by participating in these pilates classes so that's been huge i must say i'm looking at the computer screen i look like an out of focus television all this black and white that's going on with little bits of color that's popping in but hopefully i'm going to inject a little bit of color into um what we're going to be showing you today we're going to be carrying um our latest collection of fabrics she's just about hidden the shops and for us it is like really hasn't that already been done with because we designed these fabrics a year ago plus we literally shipped off in fedex today our next range of fabric no not on x orange fabrics a range of fabrics that will come out that will hit the shops this time next year it's like oh we just we're so frustrated because we want to start playing with them now plus we're working on two new books um cafe has a brand new book coming out in april which is on our home and studio and we'll talk about that in a moment um and those who are lucky enough to live in california um there will be the opening of kaif and his niece's exhibition color duet at the monterey art museum and it was supposed to open this time not this time last year may time last year but because of situation we're in it's been postponed until this year but because of that it's kind of worked in our favor because we're planning a lot of virtual online events and so people from all over the world will be able to enjoy the exhibition through cyberspace because they're going to be pumping pumping pumping visual stimulation through the internet so clue into that and some of you may or may not be familiar with kate's niece aaron lee gaffield when she gives extraordinary painting workshops and she's also a beautiful textile person so um clue into that if you may and then later on the in the year literally an hour ago we got the proofs for the next p and q book which we've just approved on uh the next book that we're going to be doing called english no quotes in an english village i'll just show you the cover so if don't don't show anybody else i'm going to give you a sneak preview okay just because i trust you guys oh yeah that's going to be the cover wow and that's enough you get to see you're gonna have to wait till this time next year anyway no we have ill be out august but um this some of you might already have on your bookshelves this was the the book that we brought up last year and just to give you a little bit of a teaser we're going to be um showing you a few of the quilts that we finished off for this book and this is just a celebration celebration or playing with um a small diamond shape and when i look at this it's like looking at the rippling water i mean if you had a water bed this will be fabulous to work on that quilt because you can get your surfboard out it's just pretending you're in the caribbean or somewhere i don't know i'm getting carried away we um the way that we our fabric ranges are shown to the shops are um free spirit put together the most amazing um folders or fabrics and they put the fabrics into color families and i think it is so stimulating i find it so difficult to be a shop owner and have my budget to spend on these fabrics because i just want it all i mean how could you how do you have to pick and choose between what's what what's going to be what but anyway because the way is the the way the world is you can get the fabrics any way you want i mean hopefully your discerning shop will have the whole range but that's a massive investment on their behalf but for those who haven't then you can cherry pick anyway um we're going to start off with the uh kind of a cool black and white palace and this was looking at um cave was intrigued by huge banana leaves i love the idea of um playing with these big banana leaves with uh this rather than have a solid black background broken up with these polka dot of uh shaded um clouds and then i've brought in my sharp teeth which cuts up beautifully for binding or backing um and then the dapples which i've done in new colorways and some of you already have already played with those and then fill up with his fabulous big blossoms and then cave injecting his genius um color to working with those hot magentas against that um cold uh brocade background and then this suzanne here was inspired by a row of um flowers that were all stringed as if they were brought in from india an indian celebration and it was just that these lays of flowers so he took the inspiration from those and painted this design and it's like a wonderful um overlapping petal fabric but when that's cut up it's a beautiful stripe uh we have a beautiful tradition here in the england where the pearly kings and queens back in the day used to cover their outfits in batons in pearl a mother of pearl buttons with a little red thread and keith took inspiration for that and then did this overall pattern love that brandon isn't that beautiful i mean that would like make a beautiful shirt uh fabric oh no all the colorways are gorgeous yeah and then this little lacy fern injecting those little tickles of color here and there but you got the little spots of color and then moving through the range we come to these um over here you have the black and white banana leaves and here you've got them in lime greens yes they look great on that turquoise blue background very nice brandon all of those prints are beautiful well i'm afraid i've got more to show you so we're very happy to see them all i hope i hope you put the chicken in the album and you're sitting down just to look at this thank you for the red hot mamas right they're beautiful look at them and then this is a new colorway on the philip jacob feather fabric um i think that would be wonderful for a pair of pajamas if you wear pajamas just saying yes that would be i can't believe how well my hat work with this collection so i mean if you want if you if you want a whole color palette for a quilt how do you choose yes how do you choose it's not easy it's not easy they're beautiful so this is getting into the blues look at those who doesn't love blue right wow they're all fantastic love that one in the far end there to your left i guess that's called him yeah that was that was basically looking at hydrangeas outside their house down in on the south coast of england and we've got big hydrangea bushes so you know um if something grabs your attention that gets used and then coming into the orange oops upside down i know those cards are big and then you've got those wonderful rusty oranges against the red background with the blonde leaves yes the feathers are gorgeous the row flowers there that you showed us you know it shows like a nice stripe so that's just to give you a little bit of a teaser of what's going to be um going into your leg oh by the way this shirt that i'm wearing is taking my um oxford's fabrics okay seemed to be the trend at the moment i painted this design about two years ago and suddenly it's the big trend um if any of you like the idea of this kind of print uh it's available as one of the zappy dots t-shirts so you can put that over your your beautiful body frame and um march the the page pace um okay so i'm going to show you a couple of okay is going to show you some of the fabrics where it's actually extended into a big draw a lot of people say to us hello everybody hey kay welcome now thank you very much now we've all gotten excited about black and white suddenly it's very fun i've been excited about black and white for years because of my students all over the world doing wonderful black and white quilts in our workshops so i've begun to get it into my actual uh palette of of quilts because i love what people do with black and white so this is the banana leaf and you can see a big extension of it how fun that is i've done a a columns quilt but it's just great columns of these leaves going down that works extremely well another thing that i love is two color prints so um i hope the lights good enough for these guys to see but that's just a kind of very flat flower but this cuts up beautifully which i'm going to show you um and a little demo i'm going to do in a minute that's fine yeah i love that print you know i mean brandon has always enjoyed uh two color prints you know with his dapple which has become one of our our um classics and in these wonderful new colors they're just they have a beautiful edge to them they're bright and cheerful i mean i've been having so much fun making new quilts for the book beyond the book you know i'm so far ahead of all of you guys but anyway this is this is beautiful to to look at at his wonderful colors um of of things look at that one at the end the purple and then the orange and blue is just oh so vibrant so that's the jumbo print and we have so we already have all of those in our classics collection so those are new ones yeah yeah um one of the things that i wanted to just show you is that this is this is the button fabric that we were talking about and that is inspired really i mean it's by the pearly queens here but also there's a wonderful artist called nick cave in in san francisco who um creates like their this outfit is completely covered in pearl buttons isn't that divine i could see mary from our pilates class wearing that outfit and uh anyway so you can see how he had red thread through his and so i used that as the center of my buttons too that's gorgeous it's it's really interesting cave to see where you get your inspiration from yeah thank you yeah we love all the colorways too that you offered in those buttons yeah well i'll show i'll show more of those okay good well this is a cactus flower which is one of philip jacobs wonderful bright sassy star-like flowers and i just love the details he gets in his paintings and they're they're wonderful for me to color because the shapes and forms are so beautiful the sense of stripes it absolutely blows me away that the f how cave came up with the concept of mixing this a cool turquoise blue in with this paprika um the dusty brown it is just is timeless it is wonderful um my favorite colorway at the moment uh of that is is this i don't know how i came up with this i call it technicolor um look look at how how lovely the dusty soft gray makes those flowers just come to life but it's also the two-tone um background has a slight brocade effect to it teal blue and gray i'd love to see a whole bunch of ladies walking down the road wearing moo moos in this print and then a big fl and then the big flower in their hair it would make a beautiful dress or a skirt do we do you go first and then the hydrangea idea uh i thought this would make a wonderful tablecloth napkins and having wonderful plates with leaf prints on them so that everything is a soft dappled green quality and so that's that's fun and uh i also i know that people love making very dark quilts i certainly do and so i love to give people very dark exciting fabrics and this these also make wonderful shirts and um dresses um now why do we can you talk with people about why we have a fabric printed on the weight of fabric that we do well we love very very fine lightweight fabrics i mean one of the things that i found when i first came to this country was that liberty was doing the most marvelous uh fabrics printed on very fine lawn and cotton and um we don't go as fine as they do but we're in that direction one of the things is that when you make applique it's very very lovely uh for for turning over and sewing down and the other thing is um if yes you can flip a fabric i mean this is not a terribly good example but you know you you could use like if you wanted a very very soft pastel version of this green you could flip it over and use the backside um and so very often we will do that in a quilt we will have things on the right side and then a certain area where they're flipped over and you get that possibility yeah that's a great idea cave yeah i think it is and then you know we talked about the buttons a minute ago and i and how much i love dark fabrics that's one of the color ways of the buttons very very dark beautiful you can see the amazing punch of midnight blue and purple and i want to kind of take my feet off it uh my socks off and just spread over that as if it's red grapes to make the wine yeah can you show okay can you stop the banana leaf with the red leaves on the black yeah which is it's really hot yeah i want to make a really really strong imagine big borders of this or or backing fabric i love a good uh you know bobby dazzler on the back of a quilt and so you know that's a nice idea now one of the things i want to point out to you can you help just hold up from some people have an issue about scale and the beautiful thing about scale is you have to bypass that because when you take a say a diamond shape like this and you're going to cut this up and you break that up see what happens when you isolate the fabric how exciting that becomes you'll see in a minute this is when i do my demonstrations i've used this fabric in the demo so you're not having to think too much about what and how it the fabric does the work for you and it's incredibly exciting so a lot of people want to know about our secrets about how we you know we play with our color and so forth the fabric does the work for us plus also when we're designing the secret is having enough ingredients to play with this is another one a very small print just a little little kind of ferny leaves with little flowers tucked into the ferny mossy bank and i find this really charming to cut up and use with big florals you know there's a wonderful way that it's like putting florals onto a bank of moss quite a lovely idea really beautiful um can i just want to show them something about oh is that range up yet that range of time itself no no that's the next one i'm jumping ahead no we're not going to jump ahead which we've talked about before because i went to this wonderful village in the middle of italy uh you know near venice and every house was a saturated color you can see pink and blue and green and you know wonderful egg yolk yellow and sky blue and so all these wonderful colors so that our quilts just found their perfect um place to you know to be shown against um and and so i'm the quilts that i'm going to take down now are just from that book but you will see so this is one of the first shots we did for the book was this huge star and i found this beautiful old peeling pale green wall to show the quilt against and it was just fabulous yeah you know i've used a very very strong background print usually on these star quilts people use very you know solid fabrics or tiny little prints but i i love the idea of brandon's big bali brocade which is a really strong statement and this so i made the star really strong in black and white and bursts of yellow and so forth so that it stands out against this background so i want to give a little bit of an iq test to you guys how many of you observed what um shape made up the last quilt that was on the wall and what shape is making up the whole quilt behind me well diamonds are a girl's best friend and i'm just looking for my hello i realize he's right behind me so don't you reckon i'm sure you guys are funny they are a girl's best friend yeah oh by the way the backing is um loaded as you can see yeah lotus leaf it's beautiful yeah so that the colors of that are just perfect right now here we've got some saturated red and we found the most wonderful house that had old peeling red walls with pink doors i mean was it just perfect to show off the quilt um which um you know it's just a very very exciting set of these very blocky kind of stars that i think kind of explode nicely i like the fact that the uh border is our turkish carnation which we've revived from the past it looks great on that quilt cave so this is this is the location that we actually found the photograph oh yeah very little corned beef hash doesn't it exactly oh it looks like my they had my head after i've been in the sun for a couple of days and this is the backing for this quilt it's a fabric i did called uh fruit mandalas i love when i'm traveling i go to the fruit markets and i love it if they make a kind of decorative display of fruits you know and so i've just done kind of big circles of of fruit prints now one uh one thing talk about what you're trying to achieve with the back when you flip over a quilt yeah i like the party to continue you know you show the wonderful rich things and then if you turn it over and it's a beige boring you know you know flat surface of tiny little prince or solid it's kind of a disappointment for me i like to turn it over and and when i'm showing my quilts in houston when i flip over you know i give a big talk about the front of the quilt and everybody goes yes wonderful and then i turn over the quilt and they applaud because they like the backs better than the front but anyway it was fun just to do something a big scale print also with the binding the binding is really important because here we've used my jumble um my dot and but we try to add something that i quit is like being putting on a bit of lipstick i don't wear lipstick but you know it's just something that's gonna kind of lift the the palette um and just give it a little bit of tickle and so i think here you can see it doesn't it isn't more important than the rest of the color balance that's going on but it just is a little bit of a sing song but and it's very important to consider yes i totally agree now this one that's on the wall is um a sneak preview of what's going to come in the next book which is quilts in an english village and we found the most beautiful soft pink wall we went to a town called lavanam which is one of the most colorful towns in england it's very small it's off the beaten track and a lot of people don't even know about it but it's all half timber buildings in the most wonderful colors somehow the people in that town got turned on to color i think they must have had a lot of italians come and live with them or something they're suddenly gold buildings and pink buildings and blue buildings and they're all half tempered with these wonderful structures and they're old and cranky and fabulous and so we've done one of our most exciting books which will be coming out next autumn if it's this autumn if any of you are harry potter films you will recognize oh actually we're getting the most incredible sunset outside sorry i got distracted and it's the color of this quilt are you looking out the window um anyway it is the birthplace of harry potter is where it is yeah yeah and they use that as because it's such a wonderful historic town but anyway i thought you'd like to see how how this big um flower print that i was showing you earlier the cactus yeah the cactus flower cactus flower uh how that looks so wonderful as a border here where it's kind of you get a whole um striation of them um what we're trying to achieve with that border is that it allows the design to keep on flowing out it doesn't frame it doesn't close in or steal more attention it just yeah just has a wonderful kind of keep flow excitement going what's the backing on that one the backing one is brandon's onion rings looks great very nice i agree with you cave i think the backing it's like big cabbages cut open they kind of look like raindrops on a on a on a pedal exactly ripples now on this wall is a picture from a sneak preview of our book that's going to come out about this house one of the things is when branson and i travel several people in the audience say where do you live can i come and see you and i say stay home we don't have time to give you tea and entertain you but um it is wonderful that we were able to do a whole book on the house and this is uh one of our great big patchworks of knitting that's taking place on the work wall and this is k facet in the studio so it's behind the scenes it's the way that i design things and some of my secrets it's very hard to tell people how you design this right i like asking a centipede you know which which leg do you move first um you know it's i i don't know a lot of stuff goes into creating and um thank goodness we're able to do it but anyway okay is that book gonna be like a a peek behind the curtain right that's right exactly that'll be awesome but you can stay home and still come to my house and enjoy it as a little bit of a sneak preview i'll give you i'll turn the camera around at the end of the day and you can have a little bit of a sneak preview of our working studio so this is um a knitted throw i love to knit um i can think out my ideas about color more easily through knitting than anything else and so i have a whole big baskets and tubs full of colors and i just sit down and i knit like crazy the colors from this were taken from a chinese ancestral portrait that i have downstairs and you will see that in the book you'll see how i was matching the colors and playing with that but um and i've taken a black for every side of this tumbling box so that's consistent throughout and then just changing the medium colored tops and the bright light color on the side of the box that gives it that dimension but this is one of my favorite prints and the reason that i'm showing it to you as as a structure is that um i'm going to show you how i play with that and how it's just similar to um things that you've got now the first thing i've got here is my my sort of mossy bank in dark reds kind of christmas greens and reds and then that purple um grape like thing and then the very very dark a hydrangea and so i'm putting those out so as you notice uh this gray wall that cave is working against it's not laundry wall it's one actually one of our best-selling fabrics it's a gray flannel and it's marked off with this grid walk grid it's actually perfect for actually lining up when you're setting up your fabrics you don't need a pin because it's flannel the the cotton fabrics will just stick and you can rearrange your arrange your structure and then stand back and change without you don't have to glue or sew it just sticks without having to use any pins okay yes i think that every sewers room should have that so this is a close-up of the orange colorway of the buttons which is kind of a wonderful russet with a little blue um coloring in the center as if it were a stitch really beautiful isn't it isn't it it is so this this will act very nicely as if it's a solid or a textured background um again i think you make beautiful um shirts or as you can see on my shirt here i put on the insides um a couple of the k facet ribbons and also i forgot to mention on the buttons i've put our buttons which is a range of buttons we're designing for a company called dell buttons so again any of this information you can get on our website and somebody was asking whether i get it it's in my local corner shop i don't know where you live honey but go to kfaster.com and you can get information on where you can get it and if you can't get it there then you can get it online i'm sure like amazon um brandon the buttons are dill right d-i-l-l-e-i-l-l right and this this is just one of the many um mainly in the range yeah we like to change the buttons on the shirts we have made just to um zap it up so this is a close-up of the blue coloring in the um i forget the name of it anyways flower i'm sure you're taking notes and you'll know what i'm talking about it's a damask flower there you go 20 brownie points good i was testing you you thought i was talking about there you go well it is a test i will say okay so what can you what kev's doing here is just putting up the fabrics in any old random way and then standing back and he'll have a little bit of a chat with you about or you can see for yourself what you don't what you like and what you don't so you had a question sharon i just wanted you to show us a little more closely those renaissance ribbons on your uh cuff oh yeah well you can also see um on the button band oh yeah where the neckline opens up i've put it on the inside too so it just gives a little bit and then when you fall back you cuff so i can have my cuff like like that but if you want it to look like you spent a bit more money you can take a cheap shirt and make it look expensive by just blinging up the inside of the collar and if if you don't sew or you're a little bit nervous about doing it then get somebody else to do it for you and then bake them a cake exactly you know belinda's on she answered some questions this one yes hello and uh someone has asked what is the pattern that you use for your men's shirts do you have a particular pattern or just a no we have a shirt that we like we have a basic shape we like we have like a shirt where there's enough room underneath the arm so it's not too tight um i personally before prefer a grandfather collar i've got a collar on here just because i've got a thick neck um get a a very simple shape i don't want a shape that's going to have bust dots and cut into the pattern i want this shirt the shirt is going to the fabric is going to do the work for me so i want it quite simple i have an inverted pocket that sits on the inside so i can keep my conch band in here chocolate well that's what i call or i can be playing with whatever's down there um so yeah something that's simple and comfortable i don't think it needs to be a fancy fancy shape i really i think it should be two rectangles and sleeves the one thing i will say is if you um have a shirt that you're bored of or you want you want to give it a little bit more of a new style another way to play with the ribbons is to put the ribbon down the outside down the seam line of your shirt i haven't done it on here but i often do so when you're waving for the taxi right you lift your arm you'll have a nice little bit of a you know line going on there right and another reason you could do it that way is during these covered times for those of us that have gained a little weight me um we could make our shirts bigger right open up the seams and put down a bit of ribbon then you gained a couple inches and you look even more fast exactly plus you haven't spent you haven't gone out and bought a new piece for your wardrobe you just made that look better right you just put a piece of ribbon in the shirt made it a little bit bigger so once we've been chatting you can see how quickly this piece has gone up on the wall okay um with the diamonds what we do is we cut a six inch strip just a strip long strip and then we have a template we cut a 60 degree angle and that gives us our diamond on the side like this so so no fussy cutting just six so because when you cut into the pattern in an abstract way it gives a little bit more entry it does as you can see when you here this is the design that i was showed you at the very beginning that looked like a um flower lace when it's cut up it looks like stripes garlands and also we like the stripes to go in different directions rather than all pointing in in the same way it's nice when they have a little bit of a play where they're shooting off like different fireworks right gives a little more interest yeah yeah see over here we've got them going off in this direction and that direction and it just has a wonderful kind of movement so you can see uh one of the things that i love is the way that you can see how that um as brandon was talking about at the beginning how that banana tree big banana leaf cuts up i mean it just gives you wonderful little abstract sense of of color it kind of looks very much like a piece of dolly artwork as if you cut up your darling painting as if you would in the old partner storm okay so um that's just one way of playing with it and then you could decide okay what i would like to do is to make this more uh really hot colors so i take some of the cool colors away and um start bringing in more of the warmth so uh yeah now uh one one of the things i point out some of you might not be familiar with a tumbling block structure and this is um a a very common geometric structure which has a dark a medium and a light and it's often repeated this actually is very uh fashionable at the moment this actual structure on uh geometric packaging and interior units especially if you've got a minimal space and what cave's doing is taking this structure but then incorporating color and pattern so you can see you've got the dark you've got the medium you've got the light dark medium and light will go there and then that's just repeated okay so now we see what it would be like if you were just using kind of warm colors with a few darker ones um then i i love blue i mean i think that the whole world is falling in love with blue these days so we start to and sometimes what i do is i just go over what i've already done there so not even take it down but just start um doing a few um really bring in some incredible exciting blues case it's amazing that just a few color switch outs change the look so much yeah absolutely now um often we get asked a question about color theory or a reason why we put a certain color next to another color well it's kind of um obvious but every color is affected by what is what it goes next to and so what we do is we get enough up on the board and then we stand back and see what doesn't work and eliminates or it might tell us that we need to go in more with this direction rather than pre-plan a recipe or a color palette we'll just get it up there on the design wall then stand back and hey you might arrange something and you think well hell i'll just go home and repaint the bedroom right why not quickly why not change the color for the new quilt that you're making i know and then see if your husband know this or not yup probably won't until a year later and says is that new i often will wear something new into the kitchen i'll wait to keep to see is that new or not it's really beautiful and that uh flannel wall is really holding those fabrics fabrics perfectly look at that that that's one of our our um classic um design that we we sell and it sells better than any of our other things it's just this flannel wall it's flannel and so the fabrics stick to it uh if they're ironed properly now one of you uh some people might wonder why it's a gray if it were white look at how much harder those colors would look and you know they look so much more aggressive but with it being next to this elephant gray the colors sing in their own harmony they don't they're not fighting so close whoops so this is uh the blue colorway that kev's talking about with our wonderful wonder wonderful injection of emerald green and the little red stitching it's beautiful isn't that beautiful it would be very nice with a pair of denim jeans yes i love that i love all those button color ways you guys it makes me want to go away and die in my head to go with it anyway you can see now how we've gone into moon indigo yeah and that's that's just a wonderful way of of playing with the palettes that we work out when i'm sitting there painting my fabrics to give to the world i'm creating a paint box and i want everybody to have their pastel version their gray version their blue version their saturated reds and pinks and all of that and so that you can play these games and you can you can make things come and go and you know sometimes you might do a whole blue quilt that has injections of you know orange and red uh you know so that it gives it a little bit of a kick color you know you know what i'm getting off on look at how this flower yeah is it's this fabric cut up and look at how intriguing it looks when it's just set off against this large-scale print against these much smaller scale prints and they you know some people might be judging and say why why should it be all the same scale absolutely not there's no real rhyme or reason why they work or don't they just do yeah they look fantastic and they so it would be lovely if you were a whole live audience out there and we could talk to you and you could ask questions now that's my favorite part of any talk that i give in the world i i just want to point out something uh step aside from old cave it's um what's really important to me about this color power is if i were to eliminate these three look at how much colder that that gets uh when you put in a little bit of hot reds and the magenta and the magenta and purple in this fabric kind of make up a stepping stone into that world of blue and some people might think oh i wouldn't touch that colorway with a barge pole you know if you know my friend down the road might not like it well i got her um you know it's you need to have that little bit of pop not too much where it's going to overtake but it just that little bit of chili sauce i'll have another mouthful you know it's just absolutely so important yeah i think brandon i agree with you i think that those colors really make a quilt sparkle you know yeah no it's very true now you kind of warm your hands by it from being like in this book in the kind of 1950s if anybody can remember that back i mean most of you weren't born then uh the decorators and so forth that i knew uh would talk about a kick color you have a group of colors and then you have a kick color you know that brings it to life and kind you know it's like a a really big squeeze of lime into your drink or or your uh or your stew right exactly spice a little bit of punch right exactly yes so well thank you kay for um working on this for us it's been fantastic um could you guys tell us the name of those the books that your two new books that are coming a few people have asked what are the names um the the one that's going to come out eventually is is called uh built in an uh english village but don't don't worry about that yet because you want to think is kate fassey in the studio if you want a behind-the-scenes front row seat i do lazy circus that is our house and uh it's like dare i say it is app on amazon taking pre-orders at the moment yeah but it will be in your discerning stores from um the first week of april i'll tell you something about this book when we did it we thought okay it's going to be kind of interesting and we're going to have these projects and so forth when the actual uh ruffs came in of the book we were astounded at how good this chaotic mess of a house looks in photographs and i didn't clean up at all you know you're going to see stuff piled up in the library and in our store room upstairs it's like a tsunami of fabrics that uh it's a little tidier now the bundle is on deck but i'm telling you it was uh it was very very chaotic and crazy okay uh quotes and brown of christmas well quilts in verano is out now is out now oh yes that that's our our our book on this wonderful village near venice and that's that's using our latest arrangement uh our latest collection of fabrics yeah um but as i say if you have any difficulty if you want to know about more information about where and what we've got out there um you know go to or brandonmably.com and they'll give you a whole list of where the different products are there's um we've got our fingers in so many different pies and if we kind of catch our breath to keep up with it all um but one thing we're really missing is our travels i miss our travels so much because usually we're on the road about five months the year giving workshops all around the world and there's nothing more rewarding than to take a whole group of you people and and we're not teachers we're encouragers and seeing how you guys will take something like this structure but do your own colorway in your own choice in the last second you want to just show them the shelves yeah i'm going to give you a little bit of a sneak preview and my i i know we got some of our plans some of caves plasti class in the in in this talk listening and they usually see a little section of where cave lies on the floor doing his pilates each thursday now they're gonna actually get to see what the rest of the room looks like so it'll seem like they're having a little bit of an earthquake but anyway here we go so this is just showing you the latest can you see the screen that the camera's in the right way yeah so um this here is showing our latest collection of fabrics and at the top are some of the top of the china that i collect and then moving over are our kind of classics and uh fabrics that are kind of between collections and then this is what's called the cave collective and those are fabrics that will uh be that we can use going forward and then over here's all the books that inspire everything wow look at that so that just gives you a little bit of a teaser of um what's going to be in this book uh and the next time that you guys will see us on the webinar uh we'll be doing a new whoops sorry we'll be doing a new talk in um um april march april with uh sharon if you invited us back of course we'd love to have you back we love having you yeah um we'll do more of a talk about the book and there will be new things to talk to you about um zappy dots who do our t-shirts they've come out with lego ranger leggings so if you'd like to see it uh your husband and a pair of our leggings and now's yours well you can only give a try um and yeah do we have any questions before we close down well i was just looking through a lot of compliments um everyone we miss seeing both of you on the road well we all do and so to our our guests today they they've all said that they miss seeing you too so we're all missing one another i think we're all looking to get our uh covered shots so that we can all get back out there in the world and start living again um they asked if there's a question in here would you guys ever travel to the uh the uk wait you are in the uk down uh down under would you ever go to australia we actually were supposed to be doing a tour of australia and new zealand last february uh we're going to do um uh china and new zealand and australia but unfortunately what happened um and you know we're kind of you know we're so grateful to be home we've um keith and i have actually really enjoyed this covert time in the sense of it's allowed us to focus on who we are what we enjoy and we enjoy one another we enjoy collaboration on our work and producing the books that we have that we can throw up to you guys but boy we're waiting for those doors don't open up only us we can get running out there i just need to put make sure i put on some clothes on those lockdown does open so i because i'm so ready to get out there and um do it but anyway we hopefully will be um back in the us first um middle part of this year if not the end of the year um unfortunately um i do have some bad news uh our usual workshop tour that we usually do um we usually do a workshop tour of the states um and we try to capture about 12 cities in about seven weeks um unfortunately we're not going to be doing that we're going to be doing more of a cramped version so watch this space something will happen but it won't be the whole big tour that we usually do um because we just have to be sensible um but we are coming back we do want to come back we're ready to get back up and start running out you guys so be ready for us we'll be coming we're ready brandon yeah and um there was one other thing it's gone from the top of my mind anyway so much to say so much to share but until next time oh i have to say a huge big thank you to um two people that are very important on our world and make k for my world happen and that is one to bundle our assistant and she's uh rooted from australia to here she's getting us in order and um we're very grateful to um yes she's like a bundle of joy that's our bundle she's our studio assistant and um the person who does our social media and that is my twin sister yes yes they they all uh you know everybody's important in the whole you know well we're a team exactly so i know you need everybody help makes everything come together so i your sister and bundle and you and kate and everybody yeah well thank you kaif thank you brandon we're so happy to have had you today i'm gonna switch this let me see if i could switch it back over let me see hold on i'm i'm i'm trying here brandon i see okay i think i'm on and you guys are off but thank you to kate and brandon for joining us we are so grateful that you've come to spend some time with us again as always you inspire us i would just like to remind everybody okay for brandon talked very quickly about their backings but they have an awful lot of the 108 inch backings which are also coming out with this collection you saw them in the back of many of the quilts that brandon showed us and they're 108 inch and they're in 100 cotton sateen so please look for those they're beautiful and as kay from brandon said let the party continue to the back of the quilt um for a giveaway this week we want to know which one of the fabrics that came from brandon shared with us this week was your favorite the brand new ones that are being shipped to quilt shops now which one is your favorite and we are going to ship out an assortment of half yard cuts to six winners so just let us know and we would just like to uh we'd like some feedback on which were your favorites and we look forward to getting that information send us hearts thumbs up and remember tell us where you're from we definitely want to know so thank you and we will see you all in a couple of weeks and keep sewing just keep on sewing thank you

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