Inspired by FreeSpirit with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably

let us know that we're live and they usually do as soon as we're live so i'd like to welcome everybody to our facebook live today with free spirit fabrics we are here today with kate fassett and brandon maveley which i'm so very very excited about we're here today and we are going to be talking about kate's most recent book the quilts in burano and very very excited to have kaif bring us through their journey in creating the book in the quilts and the shoots on location and you know talking to us about all of the detailed information and the fun that they've had creating the book and you know everything that goes into it or whatever cafe wants to share with us uh so for those of you that are new to us if you're looking for anything about free spirit fabrics we are located at freespirit fabrics.com and you can go in and you can view all of caves beautiful collections of fabric the fabric that's behind me right here today are the fabrics that are shipping in august 2020 so these fabrics are fabrics that are going to be coming to your local quilt shop they will be shipping now and uh we're we're definitely on i've got conversation here and okay great so sorry i just had a little interruption there so anyways all of these beautiful fabrics behind me and all of the quilts that cape's going to be showing us today the fabrics are shipping this month august 2020 to your local quilt shop if you're interested in purchasing a quilts in the burano book we recommend that you get in touch with your local quilt shop and tell them that you like the book so without further ado i would like to introduce introduce the master of color mr kaifett and kate i'm so thrilled to be here with you today wait let me switch my screen i'm going to make you the spotlight and we are on a 20-second delay so you are now the spotlight you can only hear me so over to you very good well welcome everybody from all over the world um i'd like to talk about this new book because it's the most exciting location that i've come across in all of my years of making these books and we always go for interesting and lavish locations that's for sure but my niece said to me uh i've just been to this amazing place called barano and i i had been there years before but she said i took these pictures and i just love it and i think that you would too and she showed me her pictures and i went that is the location for our book because our new fabrics were very bright and here was a little village off of venice that was saturated with color every house was magenta and sky blue and tangerine orange and lemon yellow and so it was just amazing to be able to go there but the one thing i was a little bit worried about was was there going to be enough kind of old quality of italy in there or was it going to be kind of more walt disney color but the first house that we saw when we first arrived was this classic sky blue house with the most beautiful edging and here's a picture of it in the book which um i hope you can see clearly and it was just beautiful and it was the perfect location for the quilt that is behind me and this quilt is one that i really enjoyed making because of the simplicity of it for me this is a very simple quilt um taking a dark side and a light side and making kind of quieros guru lighting and then popping in little tiles of color and of course it's very simply made with squares and triangles so that it is actually quite an easy thing to actually sew together but i hope that you will enjoy making that and so forth now one of the things of course this was the least colorful quilt that i started out with but the one of the quilts that was really colorful was all made with stripes and so here we have a quilt that is echoing the houses in burano because one of the things about the house in verano that holds all of that color together is that they have a like a white band around the windows a white frame around the windows it's quite bold and then they would have very very dark almost black um shutters inside the windows and so you've got this black and white kind of feeling and so i put this black and very steely gray uh that's the cornerstones for this snowball made with all of my stripes of the season all the different colorways of this very very bold stripe and i just thought that was really fun to do what have we got on the back ah brandon's design shazam i forget what it's called bang or something what is it bang hi guys i'm holding the camera so uh anyway that is just uh the starting point of the of the whole trip that we're going to take today okay for do you say this is a good one for a beginner yes i would think so now i'm going to pin up another one which uh has a nice green story so this is a kind of succulent story because i come from california and we have huge cactus and succulent gardens and i love them so smooth elegant greens it's something that really really appeals to me and um so much so that here's a recent painting that i've done and you can see that it is just looking at all of my kind of celadon and blue and jade green pots and painting those as a sort of study of very very soft greens you can see how it it's amazing with this quilt but that's just an idea of color development and the things that get into my idea my my head about how to take a directional color so you can see that oh and we're looking at the back here now uh using dream in blues uh as the backing okay that painting that you just showed is that a recent piece or is that something well that's a painting beautiful people will be able to view caves more recent paintings he's done in cobit time on the website kfaster.com painting gallery and brandon we want to see you by the end we we we need a flash of your face by the end of this oh god we all bring in behind the lens i'll have to get dressed oh yeah and that would help so so here we've got some of the bright colors what oh i'm very bad at pinning things up as you can see it's a beautiful quilt yes so the quilting go ahead yeah this is one of the things that i love about this quilt are the oranges and this print i see it's just a big polka dot and so we've got circular forms in a lot of the prints that i'm using and that's the thing that sort of holds it together as as as well as the very very bright color somebody asked when they first saw these this orange design what do i do with it yeah well the basic answer is cut it up and have fun well yeah and it is a huge polka dot um i have small polka dots that uh in my collection in my classic collection but i love them when they get bigger and bigger and so these oranges just became a kind of you know pop art version of them hey cave could you could you talk a little bit about the border on what stage do we design there's that stripe again one of the stripes that was in the last quilt that i showed and um in the snowball and that is just taking a stride of very very rich colors that was kind of inspired by the missonis the wonderful knitters um in italy who just have these wonderful colors every now and then come into their collections and i was just looking at their stripings and doing something similar and when you're designing a quilt you'll basically cut their squares and start arranging on the gray flannel cloth that's in the background this is my work wall and um yeah if i took a piece of fabric what's what's wonderful about this wall is that you can just you know put you can arrange fabrics and see how the color combinations work uh and they just stick and then you can arrange the whole quilt and then turn it over to somebody who sews well and because it's a nice gray coloring then um if there's any background showing it doesn't interrupt the flow of color whereas if it was white it would look like it was laced in dental floss exactly not a good look brandon can i i just want to um the the quilt that kate just had up was called hot steps am i correct so i make steps right and that quilt is featured on the cover of the quilts and burano book so if anybody if we'll show you right so the quilt that he just had up that's the quilt that's on the quilts and burrano cover right there and you can see that quite vividly those oranges the cape was talking about that just become very large um spots so think of them as spots large spots yeah now one of the things i'd like to talk about is inspiration for fabrics this is um a beautiful silk piece that i found somewhere in the market and i brought home to brandon and i said isn't this a great idea for a fabric and brandon looked at it and he said yes and he see his eyes lit up he had that idea and he took that rather sedate design and turned it into this wonderful gypsy thing called bali brocade and uh you could i say down the beach with a with this wrapped around your hips and then you just feed the bell of the ball but what i did was i used that huge fabric i used it over and over in this collection and one of the things that i'm proudest of is a huge star called shimmer star so it's called shimmer star cave yeah yeah yeah one of things i want to point out too um some people might not be aware is every design that we come up with there are five different colorways produced on of each fabric and because shops only have a certain budget they might only carry one or two colorways but if they look do a little bit of research they'll see that there's actually five different color modes available on the market now one of the things that's been happening to me as a creative person lately is i've become fascinated with black and white because in my workshops when i travel the world and i work with people usually in a really good shop they'll have a fabulous bold collection of black and white prints and i always encourage somebody in the workshop to use those mostly and drop a bit of color in with graphic black and white and that influenced me to start playing with black and white and one of the things that i started doing was i've been my lockdown sanity project it's been working taking all of my knitted swatches and making patchworks out of old swatches of knitting projects and so here we go basically black and white with color dropped into it and taking the inspiration from my students list those this is all nice sorry i see the pinwheels at the bottom oh yeah there's a lot of ideas come into these yeah for years the old patchwork structures would it would inspire keith for knitting designs and so it's funny how the world turned around but brandon now if you could come and look this star you'll see that i did lots of black and white prints lots of brandon's his jumbo and his wonderful chips design that's like a little kind of crazy checkerboard on neurotic checkerboard but what i love about this quilt more than anything is the way i use the bali brocade as the backing usually you know in those old-fashioned quilts they would have a tiny little print or just a plain fabric in the back of these star quilts and so it was fun to do something that was big and operatic and really drive it home i love it in the middle here we've got brandon's mad plaid which is one of our classic prints in our collection and how well that looks when it's cut out into these little diamonds it looks like a beautiful halo in the camera it does it's beautiful and who doesn't love a lone star quilt i love it no no seriously i mean they're gorgeous and i love the valley brocade in the background cave that was brilliant isn't it isn't it just outrageous this is a great example of working with consistency of scale yeah and color intensity so you have a wonderful overall balance of harmony but tickled alive with some um off notes that just set it on fire and i usually wouldn't be this strong with my star i would usually have little soft gratings but i thought if i'm going to be on this background i've got to make that star really dance on the table tops it's got to be a bobbly dazzler so that's going to be what do you have on the back keith well i think you accomplished that cape it looks great and there's uh a backing of my lotus leaf in one of my favorite colorways the kind of spring colorway so do you choose i know the answers to these questions but do you choose a print like a solid or a small scale print for the backyard quilts or because i i like it when somebody finds a wonderful quilt that they adore they they always want to see what the back is like and they look at the back i want them to the party to still keep going and so uh with that in mind i've made my own backing fabrics that are 108 inches like this big peony is one of the designs and that's really fun but uh this is also great you know for those people that are into blues uh it's called a fruit mandalas it makes me want to put my swim shorts on and dive on in yeah so that's that's always fun to look at dave i like what you said about turning the quilt over and the party continues i like that because it should yeah guys can i also point out look at how the binding works on this quilt it's just like putting on a bit of lipstick it just gives you that little bit of a a pickup it's a little polka dot uh kind of an orange polka dot on flamingo pink or add in a little bit of orange peel you know it just has a lovely little pink finish off yes yes it looks beautiful it just finishes off the edges and pulls the whole piece together yeah i said the same with this quilt where we finish it off with a black and white dot yes love that quilt now all our all our quilts are machine made um [Music] and uh with the the binding actually we sew we actually love sewing binding by hand for those who are curious i love it if you if you hate doing binding bring me for lunch and i will do the binding of your quotes put on a radio play or podcast now i love dark i don't know about you guys but there's something about finding dark palettes and putting dark things together that is very very exciting one of the things that i've done recently is to do these stripes in wonderful dark palettes and so here you can see these two color stripes that are just okay those are your shot cotton stripes correct cotton stripes and i'm just i just saw those and thought i've been making some dark quilts with those um i think it's good to let the viewers know that you have those shot cottons out there because gorgeous gorgeous fabrics they have a beautiful hand beautiful colorways those are the shops now yeah and one of the things that we've done this time uh this collection is to to make them very sharp so that this is like blue and lavender and when you move it you can see all the different colorings they're more iridescent yeah yeah so though those who might be familiar with the um shopkins that we've had for some while all that are in the shops now are new fabrics where we've run a different color with the warp and with the weft to create this um quite definite iridescent feel and they look quite silky now one of the things i was just talking about was that i love polka dots and i just thought i'd love to just show this is very badly made so all the quilters can say oh gosh he doesn't know how to sew i sold this by hand and nothing adds up or joins up but i don't care it's polka dots and it's fruit prints and it's everything that's circular a geodes and all sorts of things and you can see i just had fun putting it on a black and white polka dot uh you know sashing you know why it works for me cave is that it has an overall consistency even your shirt yeah well it looks subtle for change bright and strong and have a kind of level of color and you can see the fabulous backing output on it not ah i like that and there's no quilting police here today you did a great job with that oh good so this is the way i started it i started it with gray and you can see it doesn't have the impact of that black and white right again okay that shirt is amazing it just blends in like you're wearing a little penny yeah order for this shirt for this piece now one of the things this is also just talking about how high contrast comes into a lot of my work this was a little painting that i saw in jordan when we were in the market in jordan going to petra and we noticed in syria this little no it wasn't it's jordan anyway this is what was so fabulous about uh this was the the black background and then this white in here so we got this really really strong contrast and i think it's fun it's just interesting to see the aesthetic that moves from medium to medium and anybody who's interested in stitching that needlepoint it's a kit that you can get through urbantapstreet.com i was just going to ask cave did you needlepoint that particular one you just showed us yes i did yeah it's beautiful very nice thank you well so the quilt behind you is called dark garden good yeah i'm glad you know so i want the viewers to know so this is called dark garden yeah and i was putting a jewel-like flower in the corner of each um kind of arrangement and then i'm using my dark milly fiori which is one of my darkest fabrics i love it that it looks like burnt toast you know kind of a wonderful burnt look and uh this is one of my favorite uh aboriginal dot fabrics uh which is called orchid and that makes a wonderful black it actually has red printed on black but it gives it a beautiful velvety darkness so these are things that you can play with in this book um i don't know what our timing is i i uh are we getting toward the end we've still had plenty of time cave as long as could you give them a flash of the back please yeah i will but i'm gonna just yeah we want the party to continue lovely all right let's see what i put on about that oh i put the mandela yes nice monkey blue background yes i love that one and i also love the other one i forgot what the colorway is if it's red or orange with all the really bright fruit uh-huh are you having that i love that one okay i'm gonna now show you um a since we're in the blue mood with this lovely blue backing i'm gonna show you a very blue quilt i definitely get the blues sometimes can i also say that if you don't have much blank wall space at home to put up a gray flan cloth as we have we we've actually put up two two widths of the gray flannel on a cork board which we stuck to the wall but if you've got a rembrandt and the matisse and you don't want to take those down understandably then um get a piece of insulation board from your hardware store and just put up your grey flower cloth it will change your life honestly it'll make you you're designing a patch of quilt so much easier and if your girlfriends are coming over you can always slip it behind the door so that they don't get a sneak peek of what you're making them maybe okay so this is called um mediterranean ripples and it's just taking all the nice blue cobalt fabrics and just making a real glow with the blues and um it's funny that i happen to put those patches up there because they go rather well with it on the back i've got brandon's wonderful fabric what's that one called islands i think it is is it or it's called absolutely gorgeous that's what it's called i can't remember cave either brandon can you get closer um oh gosh i forgot what that one's called it's brand new and i don't have it here with me i know somebody will text me the name of it that's what they'll do yeah it'll be nancy and actually i didn't say that at the beginning nancy jules on and she's asked she's answering questions on behalf of free spirit so there's a question for us we've all forgotten the name of that fabric right but it's gorgeous the quilt's gorgeous very nice brandon thank you for getting close and i did receive a text that they're having a little difficulty hearing you oh okay i'll tell you now now that brandon's closer okay well i will i will try to speak more uh i'll project now here's a piece of knitting that's very very dark and that's kind of showing you uh the dark moods i get into with yarn um but this is this is the kind of sweater i would like to wear you know a kind of really dark manly love the colors yeah yeah the show similar yeah um that's kind of it for the quilts that i've got at the moment i could show another backing fabric which is really fun if you had a really bright uh quilt you want to do back that's gorgeous could you show me could you show a couple more pages inside of quilts and burrano yeah and talk about why we chose that as a location a little bit more yeah so okay when when it comes to the books what comes first the chicken or the egg so are do you pick the location and then design the quilts around the location or are the quilts designed it's kind of half and half sharon i what i do is i i uh we start making quilts and then we go to find a location that has a lot of variety and what i loved here you can see all the different moods that you got out of those incredibly colorful houses this beautiful lime with bright pink and then you know the workmen there wearing lime colored trousers was just amazing uh with against the blue turquoise wall so it just um once we go and look at a location then we come back with lots of pictures and we send that to uh other quilters and so forth i'm just getting it out of the shadow so you can see um so uh yeah this was this is the page i love oh i do our art director you know she before she took this picture and she mounted it nicely but then she put it next to this picture with the laundry blowing in the wind it looks just like the abstract that's on this wall i'm sorry about the um the glare back from the book the glossy pages on the book guys it just means you're gonna have to go out and get a copy so you can drool over it exactly while you're having your breakfast dinner afternoon tea glass one evening and imagine you're sitting there and we yeah you know what's great about this book also while we've had this awful time of covet we're not allowed to travel through this book hopefully we're taking you there with us and you're feeling like you're actually going to this little tiny island yeah we can experience we love it brandon cave i was just sent a text message that says that that fabric on the back of that quilt is called moss moss okay could you pin back show more of the border because no no the the top pull the top back because the end coil is still the attention oh well how do i keep the top oh well it's brandon it's just under here all right there we go yeah that's good cave yeah yeah that looks beautiful so that fabric's called moss viewers if you're interested it comes in many color ways yeah and that is shipping this month to your local quilt shop as our do we have do we have any questions from um those who that have bothered to join us this evening well we have a lot of people right that's right so we didn't talk about that so when we began we we're about a half hour in and we began at uh one o'clock eastern standard time and it was six o'clock p.m for kaif and brandon and um they told me before we started that they were excited all day you couldn't wait so i i couldn't wait either i've been a little nervous i'll confess but you guys are great we love doing this with you we have a bunch of viewers on we ask the viewers to please send us some thumbs up and hearts and tell us where you're from uh we are getting a lot of those and i'm just gonna scroll through here we've got people from california idaho georgia california um a lot of people saying cake they love all the quilts behind you they haven't seen a bad one yet and each one gets better as you go um let me see in here can you pin up the star one again yeah there are a lot of thumbs up for that um a lot of people saying they've been excited too the quilts are gorgeous uh let me see if anybody has any questions send us some questions we'd be happy to try to send them cape's way while we've got them on live um let me see robin portnoy says she needs this book i just got the quilt in ireland book yes you do you all do you all need the quilts and piranha book it's a gorgeous book there are beautiful quilts in it and we strongly encourage you to pick it up and try to recreate i would say this is our most colorful book to date in the p and q range um i really felt like we caught the essence of the island and how they harmonized with the quilts that we created and the quilts also i feel that there's a very nice balance a little bit of something for everybody um in there and it's a perfect way of showing off how how we used our latest collection of fabrics so for one like for instance those who are familiar with my onion rings you can see here how that's been incorporated in with the primarily caves used a lot of dotty fabrics in with this big um star but then broken it up with some other abstract shapes i thought i would sit here and answer questions if anybody it looks like you're surrounded by a sugar halo yes yes he does all right yeah i'm scrolling through kate so brandon just keep showing us close-ups of the we we've got people volunteering to have you come for lunch so that you can sew on the bindings great if i had known that when i saw you last i would have given you a pile of quilts so let me see um yes we're saying let me see you can get all the k fab facet fabric from gloria's color online that's true reach out to your local quilt shop local quilt shops carry you know many of cape's fabrics the new and the older collections as well we're showing you the new collection that's coming in the new book um love the blue quilt stunning good hey let me see here okay if you look like you're in rio carnival so cave when you when when you're looking to create or you and brandon when you're looking to create um a new collection new fabrics and you're designing something you know where i know that you guys see inspiration everywhere you go i mean you know there's so many things that inspire you and cape i know that you've talked about how museums um you know inspire you a lot you go to museums and look at different collections so when you guys are developing a collection a new one you know do you have something like do you already know in your head that for your next collection you want to come out with a new i don't know geometric or a new flower and how would you pick up that inspiration you know we've got a lot of time between designing collections and so i i find that i'm i'm kind of thinking i'm i'm going to do a stripe and i'm going to do a flower print and i'm going to do something just in two colors so it's good and graphic um and so forth you know i just i start to think about those things maybe make some little notes or some little sketches and so i'm ready by the time it's time to sit down and design i sometimes if i get a really good idea i just sit down immediately and get it done and all the artwork done and sitting in the drawer waiting to join whatever else is added to it for the actual collection yeah i like how you look right now you're the star within the star is good with this background it is it looks fantastic you look great um case i i know that from spending um a little bit of time with you last year that you know you kindly you and brandy both said sharon you need to wear some color so i did wear some purple today now i don't know if this is a fair question to ask of you um do you have a favorite color i mean or would you say you know not really you just love all color and then how it works with one another yeah uh yeah i i wouldn't uh you know you know there was a period in my life where i was in love with burnt orange and everything had to be orange i think some of you are old enough to remember the 50s when we had like orange furniture and things like that so that just was a with a passing phase i when i really got into textiles uh knitting and making fabric prints i it was just what you know the moods i love putting groups of fabrics together like putting this whole collection together and making it sing and that's what it's all about so it's you it's what's appropriate and something that was too dark or too light or too muddy wouldn't have worked in this composition it had to be up and bright and holding its own you know and that's the mood of that collection of fabrics that went into that quilt but another time i will do something very antique i did something called sunlight in the forest once where i was looking at old brocades that looked like they came off of buddhist monks robes um and so that was a mood uh that i will get into um and so forth and i i when the collections come in i look at them all and i think well there's a nice blue story here and there's a green story and there's a yellow story off i go on all of those none of it is pre-planned sharon i mean one of the things that we've realized and what a lot of people have to take on board is when you put a shirt with a pair of pants they take on a different color balance from when they've actually just bought that shirt on its own so when you put a fabric next to another fabric you start building a kind of a harmony and then you put another fabric next that it takes on a different value and so you start building up your mood as you go along for instance the quilt that caves got behind him he would have started in the middle middle and started building out and then saying it needs a little bit of push and a little bit of pull by standing back and building up the story on the design wall um we don't work anything out on paper beforehand we literally uh respond to what's required as we're going along i love that well what i think is interesting in particular the quilt behind cave because i know how difficult it is to work with yellow because yellow brings so much to a piece i mean i feel as though it's really it's a necessary color in quilting um but sometimes if it's used incorrectly it just makes your eyes hurt you know yeah so i mean the placement of the yellow in that quilt is so gorgeous i mean so well thought out you can tell it's you know brightened up the quilt in just the right places well talking about this yellow here because it's in the center halo and then it's repeated on the further extension but for me what is the wonderful little kick note is the orange dot that calms the yellow adds a bit of warmth to the yellow on the outer tips it is it's beautiful very well thought out yellow and orange coming in here this is uh tula pink's beautiful big polka dot oh wow of course tula's polka dots are going to be bigger than mine but uh and and how gorgeous and then brandon wonderful dot flower here in the middle i love the way this works right but cape i think your orange is trump tula's uh spots there well said sean well i didn't even mean it like that but you just knocked her off to a coconut shot but yes i see the um that other print in there uh what's it called but mosaic is that in is that in there too because that one's coming out with this next collection yes the blue mosaic is a colorway your hand no no down cape there you go thank you very much let's jump up jump jumble the one above it like two two above it no isn't that mosaic that don't flow oh dot flower okay sorry i know it is slightly overwhelming we're actually paint pots from way back right talking about being confused we're designing now for 2022. wow yeah it is a bit of a wow who can keep track of all of it right well now where are those questions people oh they're coming they're coming hold on i'm going through people saying they're loving fabulous um i scrolled by it already but somebody in here had said a handsome man in front of a beautiful getting all quilt of compliments let me see i'm scrolling to towards the end i'm just trying not to please is this a dating program well like it might be by the time we're done you see check our improve just watching people are just watching um tula is very cool let me see what they're saying i don't have any questions there caves you're right could you point out how the barley brocade works so well in that v you see that's one piece of fabric whereas upon the the the yeah you see that it looks so much more complicated because the pattern and color in that design how it just harmonizes with the the points and the triangles well you know what i'm going to do i'm just going to take it off of cave for one second because i happen to have that fabric here so i'm going to show well if everybody can see me now can you guys see it here's the bali brocade in there with you everybody can see this i'm holding up sorry i'm holding up the valley brocade fabric and i'm hoping oh yeah yeah yeah great so there's a larger piece so that cape you can show you know you can see how that was cut up and used as the background yeah i'm gonna be the cameraman now and brandon's going to come and sit down oh okay this will be fun yeah yes now he's dressed oh i'm glad you got dressed brandon you look great is that a halo effect on you brandon does it oh yeah all right well i'm going to put the spotlight on you brandon so you're on operating the camera so for the viewers that didn't see i don't know if you want to talk about how you did that um stripping the other day oh god you know you never know with me i'm afraid i just you know i just come up with these things but um the wonderful thing about the well i'm just gonna talk to you about this quilts and burrana book because we arrived um on the island um it's 40 minutes away from venice and we arrived on the island we checked into our hotel and then keif and i would just go out and find and look and look and basically we have no idea where we're going to be shooting until we actually get there and see because it's all down to the weather conditions and the mood of our quilt and how that sits and harmonizes in the place that we've um we've tried to find a place so there's so many different so much varieties in here and then once we've done the photo shoots we come home and we work with the layout designer creating these tints on the pages so you get different kind of color modes we do the whole shoot in three days so it's um it's backbreaking it's a lot of work but we you know adrenaline is going now one of the things that's interesting about the page that he's got open now you can see there was a broom that was green that just was the right color for the shot to lean against the quilt i mean that's the kind of thing that we just found that sitting there on the street so that this is the kind of why it's such an adventure when we go to these places yeah this is looking great so that oh i love that quilt top too yeah that's from an old indian fabric that was inspirational and what was fantastic was to put phillips inch itching fabric on the back yeah yeah so when you um turn this what is a like marquetry kind of honeycomb color palette and you flip it over and you just have this big party going on the back as if it's an underground scene yeah i love that don't you love brandon's uh shirt with i do and a lot of the viewers are loving your flamingos yeah the flamingos are fabulous again look how it goes well with this quilt yeah now this is an easy one to do again it's using my barley brocade yeah and then ceo gins uh cakes um turkish delight and it's just a huge log cabin and then backed with the um backing fabric yeah well john would love to see somebody make a ball gown and big peonies yeah and there's a yellowy pinky quilt that was like a big log cabin too so i'd like to think this is one this is eliza lucy's uh wonderful quilt look how beautiful that is with that orange awning and the pink wall oh my god it was so divine that location it looks fantastic sitting in there doesn't it and then the border um just extends out circus stripe that wonderful log cabin so brandon uh leslie sally says brandon looks like a florida party come on over honey drinks um i'm waiting you look so fabulous brandon it's maybe dinnertime i know i've been working on that um yeah and so you know mitty davis sutherland says she loves hearing how you create these books um burano is known for glassblowing did that figure into the designs no no it's it's murano this is known for the blowing yeah yes am i pronouncing it ron yeah burrano is is famous for lace oh oh oh okay so that's too monochrome to talk about oh okay oh if if this is a little bit too colorful for some people and some people have this fear about color as if it's a dirty word because they don't know how to deal with it and they like blue and white well we've done something that's nice and cool for you so you feel like you just popped a mint into your mouth and you're blowing cool kisses and found this beautiful blue wall to put it against and that's just playing with the sequence of uh i think that five is done yeah that's better that's better so yeah the quilts are just gorgeous so if if any i'm hoping that all of our viewers are very very inspired by these quilts that k for shared with us today and brandon and how they've gotten close up to the quilts and really shown us the fabrics and explain the fabrics and these are all quilts that are quilts and burano so if you're interested in purchasing the book you can find the book out at your local quilt shop or ask your local quilt shop to get the book for you but uh we yeah perfect view of that fantastic um very the the quilts are fantastic that are in the books and like uh k from brandon just said you know if the colors too much there's some that have a softer palette they're brighter palettes they're medium love that one this one is liza lucy's and look i love that one yeah took the uh you know for those who aren't in the high color because they they feel like it's going to scare the horses then this makes them think of having lovely pieces of fruit cake in the afternoon yeah we all live like a little bit and this is a very simple one to do if you dissect it down the circle is just caves uh turkish delights that right it is yeah it's like a snowballer and and then there's just a sequence of dark and light squares very very clever lighter and the more you look at it the more intriguing and incredibly elegant and antiqued it is i i really take my hat off to liza it it cut a very different dash from the other quilts it makes me think of a wonderful cup of coffee what i loved about that one too is the background looks like those uh postage stamp quilts yes enough just enough contrast don't you think sharon yes i do i love that quilt that's i i love all of them but you know i have a couple of favorites so yeah well that's got a simplicity that that strikes me and then and then we've revisited an old favorite of a lot of people which was one that came from isaac came up with which was called boarded diamonds and this quilt was invented because cave wanted to show people how to play with his large-scale prince and you know whatever advice would give people they'd never be able to understand it so this is taking large diamonds and then just putting a border around those quilts around around those diamonds yeah you can see the big scale prints and then a small scale little border around each one yeah showcasing the fabrics it looks really beautiful and they you know making this quilt makes you want to go and buy a water bed just put it on i found a purple house to put it against but it didn't quite work so we we found another house that was pink anyway you'll see it all in the book anyway i i hate to sound commercial like you know go out and buy this book and go out this book but what i wear about is trying to throw out very simple ideas to you guys to inspire you to take our fabrics and play these aren't difficult structures to get too close these cave pipes um you know these are very simple structures but it's showing you how to deal with what can be overwhelming fabrics um and what we're trying to achieve when we put together a color palette is that there's an overall harmony they're not having to punch up and fight and trying to find their own space we want the eye to glide and move and just that you stand back and look anything oh god that's beautiful you know and just enjoy what it is yeah you know enjoy the pattern and color and let it really sing you can take our recipes and make it the same as if you are following a merry berry apple pie recipe or what we love is that you've taken our idea and made it your own and then share it on facebook on social media so we you inspire others that's what our world is about anyway okay do you have there's somebody that asked a question about if they were afraid to cut into a particular fabric i mean what's your advice on that just do it just just get in there and oh yeah you know when i first started teaching workshops i was very careful of everybody's creativity and i didn't want to boss people around and liza came in to teach with me one day and she said look the first thing you gotta do is waste some fabric and the best advice because we all get nervous we have a favorite piece and how do we cut it just so and what was so wonderful was that thing about wasting a bit of fabric in order to create something gorgeous you don't just put up with the first things you cut you keep standing back and looking and saying there's another piece that would just be more harmonious or more would enhance the color and make it sing more and that's what we're all about in these quills is making color come absolutely alive and sing out so that if you're working in an exhibition somewhere it's going to talk to people right across the room right i think that's a good tip because i think that sometimes when people quilters i know myself if you go out and you buy your fabric and then you get home and it's not working and maybe you're forcing it to work well you should just not you know like just put another piece in you know sharon could i also say i cannot emphasize enough how the grave flannel walk wall helps with that if you had to have fabric you don't know what to do with it then pin it up on the gray flannel wall put something next to it then stand back and then it will start speaking to you rather than trying to work it out on a piece of paper in your head in my first workshops everyone used to turn up with toilet bowl branding can you get closer fabrics and it was very difficult for me to have them work with color when they were against stark white all day so i went home one day and i designed this kind of neutral soft warm gray cloth that people could work against and it wouldn't you know it would make every color you put on it look fine exactly you can also make yourself a pair of pajamas and then you can stroke yourself you can make pajama pants and put your quilt designs in your pants we might as well we carry enough thread and stuff with us anyway right yeah so all right well i don't have any other questions for you guys right this second that i see coming through here i apologize i'm trying to multitask and i'm not always the best multitasker well i just want to say um for those listening please join us next wednesday when we'll be talking more about the new fabrics that are going to be coming out and also uh we'll be talking about how the collective works together meaning k facet philip jacob his lordship and myself the butler the butler you're more than the butler brandon so i am just going to talk for a little bit and then we will say goodbye to you guys um i'd like to thank everyone that's uh turned on their facebook today to watch us with uh kaif and brandon and they both did a little filming so we thank you both for that brandon's showing me his room right now that i don't think anybody can see because i'm talking let me stop talking brandon you talk no you don't want to look at the remnants of mess oh oh well this is uh what we have here are the shells of our new fabric so we're allowed to use for the next collection um otherwise it all gets confusing and what isn't what we're not allowed to use goes upstairs so what you're seeing here in the corner is where cape usually sits and listens to radio 4 while he's working and on the shelves we have all our wall of books for inspiration um and this is you can see our part of our creative mess so don't feel guilty about having kraken eggs bake a cake i like that that those are all your eggs to bake your cakes i love that exactly exactly you guys have been totally awesome this week thank you so much and like brandon said um we will be back next week i want to make sure i have the date correct so next wednesday august 12th we will be back with the inspired by series on wednesday it'll be one o'clock eastern standard time and in london it will be six o'clock p.m will you guys be just as excited all day next week today but for those for those joining in i understand you've got each time each show at the end of the show you get to do a little bit of a giveaway yes we have a giveaway this week so this week of course we're going to be giving away a few copies of quilts in burano so i'm holding it up now i hope everybody can see it although cape is still the star from what i see in the center of that quilt and so we will be giving away a few of these books this week and so our question was where is the island of burano so if you can answer that question for us we would love to send you a copy of this book we're only sending out a few of them we're going to send out about four or five copies and we would love you to go purchase the books as well if you're not one of the grand winners but we will be back next week and k from brandon thank you so so much we love this brandon you did a great job behind the camera cafe did too i didn't realize how well you both were behind the camera so thank you for that and next week we will be talking as uh brandon said about the collection that's shipping this month so i have those fabrics behind me case will be kate and brandon will both be talking more about the collection next week um you know more of the details about the fabrics and maybe where the inspiration came from for specific fabrics and if you have questions for us please send them along i believe that there's a post on the free spirit page where we're asking you know any questions that you'd like to ask okay from brandon and we would love to ask them those questions next week so i can have a list going and i'm sure you know kaif answers a lot of questions today as did brandon already that many of you had um but next week you might have more questions about the collection so if we have those questions ahead of time we can um ask those questions next week and uh we look forward to having you guys back and i don't even think i had said so i know i introduced case k fassett and brandon maybe i never told the viewers i was sharon thornton at the beginning so i was a little uh nervous i think so on behalf of free spirit fabrics we would like to bid everyone farewell today and what are you guys going to do tonight i mean i just want to say i'm a fan of sharon thornton oh you're sweet brandon i'm a fan of yours what am i i'm gonna i'm gonna go and stick a chicken in the oven you're gonna put a chicken in the oven and that's what you're gonna have for dinner if i if i can catch it oh if you can catch it yes no no you guys live in this city you don't have chickens in your backyard um no we you know i tell you what we're doing first thing in the morning we go for cold water wild swims in a in a pond up in hampstead heath which is our treat so yeah what's the water temperature now oh it's cold and and we're in with the ducks and the swans and there's heron and there's geese um and yeah they just look look on the list as if what are you doing in our pond right how early are you guys usually out there doing that seven a.m seven o'clock seven o'clock prompt every day you might have visitors tomorrow yeah come on join us away your best outfit okay join us on uh our social media feeds because we we share a lot of inspirational shots too so on instagram or facebook yes you do and i i love seeing all of your uh feeds out there so thanks guys thank you kate you're very welcome thanks brandon thank you yes bye to everybody we'll see you next wednesday thanks so much guys we look forward to it

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