Joyce's Daughter

Color Conundrum

While planning the quilts in my first post, I was totally shocked how long it took me to find seven shades of green that liked each other.  I think I stressed over the choices for about two months before I had enough.  I needed a pair of fresh eyes. A friend of mine, an artistic Montessori teacher, fixed it in about two minutes.  She fiddled around with about ten fat quarters I had chosen and pulled out the most pleasing little palette, just like that.  And dang, she nailed it.  

Green can be hard to work with.  I thought I had the worst behind me until I went to my stash to get solid white background fabric.  I had four shades of white in my stash!  Some was fabric meant to be dyed, some Kona cotton, and some just random.  That all got worked out and I chose to work with Robert Kaufman's white Kona cotton.  Easy, peasy. 

To save myself a future headache I ordered a Kona cotton color card from Purl.  I knew I would need it as a reference tool and what I got was a color dreamland.  And gosh, there are multiple shades of white.  

The collection consists of 196 colors, yes 196.  I am now addicted to this stuff, like the quilt shop is not already a problem for me. 

 

Maria

I received this sweet little girl from Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls this weekend.  She has the loveliest blog and sells patterns, dolls and paper goods there and through Etsy.  Aside from being a fabulous maker, she takes fantastic photos.  I just don't know how she pulls it all off!

 I was a lucky blog follower and got picked to receive Maria.  Her dolls sell really quickly and I have a feeling she has a lot cooking this month. It would be a good idea to check her out on a regular basis.  She almost always has something new and lovely posted, especially lately.

The cameras did not come out as much as I hoped this weekend.  The boys and I got caught up in some serious spring like weather and just played all day.  I do have a few rolls of 120 film to get developed this week that I took with my new Holga.  I am not quite sure what to expect from this camera which is half of the fun of having one.  More about that later, I am off to sew . . .

Hello and a little peak at progress

I intended to introduce myself with some finished work.  Instead, here is a little tease at the work table and something to look forward to.  This little pile will become two new quilts and a surprise in the next few days.   

Tomorrow my film cameras are coming out of hibernation. The recent cold, dark days have kept them on their shelf, waiting for some love.  This weekend is looking good and we are all ready to go outside and play.