This week I’m excited to be hosting TGIFF again — Thank Goodness It’s Finished Friday! I’ve been on a bit of a sewing binge in the last few months and my most recent finish was my Clair de Lune mini quilt, pictured below. I finished it just a week ago, and the design was created for the Houston Modern Quilt Guild’s minimalist challenge and I’m excited to share it at the guild meeting this weekend.
But I’m also sharing another pseudo-finish — a super colorful quilt top! Earlier this month I took Tara Faughnan‘s Color Interactions class. I’ve admired Tara’s work for several years now for her brilliant and unique use of color, so I was really excited to hear her thoughts on color and how it works in quilts! We spent the first half of the class doing a lot of interesting and insightful color exercises, and then starting working on her Bars Quilt pattern.
My motivation for signing up for the class was entirely to hear Tara’s ideas on color and her thoughts and advice on using color since her approach is so different from my own. I hadn’t really planned to make a full quilt top at all. But once I got started making these sets of bars, I just couldn’t stop!
This class definitely led me to trying new things and pairing colors I never would have looked at in the past. There is a surprising amount of mustard yellow (which I’ve always said I hate) along with muddy and dusty shades of green and even brown in this quilt top, yet I love the overall effect.
I finished this top on Tuesday evening, but had to set it aside for the next week or so as I wrap up another deadline-driven project. I know I’ll get back to it soon though, and can’t wait to have it truly complete!
Now it’s your turn to share a great finish! I can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on this week. Feel free to link to a blog post, Facebook, Instagram, or anywhere else you like to share. And if you want to learn more about TGIFF and host a link party yourself, find all the details here.
Rebecca Grace says
I love your modern challenge mini and that bar quilt top is TO DIE FOR! Yes; absolutely — the unexpected color combinations are what make that quilt zing to life! I wish that at least one of the quilt shops near me would expand their range of solid fabrics in inventory. I do my best color work in EQ8 using swatches of Kona Solids, and then I print out a tidy little shopping list of all the colors I need and the quantities… But I have to hunt the colors down from all over the Internet because there’s no one-stop-shopping (that I know of!) for solid quilting fabrics. Thanks for hosting TGIFF this week!
Sarah says
I also have trouble finding a lot of solids locally beyond the “standard” colors, so I end up ordering a lot of Kona online. FabricBubb is one place I’ve found that seems to have a lot of them!
piecefulwendy says
All those bars of color, so pretty and fun! Some day I need to try one that; I really like the look of it. Thanks for hosting TGIFF.
Sarah says
It was such a fun and quick sew! I definitely recommend it, and I think Tara sells a pattern for it even if you don’t take her class.
Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl says
Tara’s use of color is definitely different than my approach; that was really smart to take her class to learn from her. Your bars quilt looks great!
Sarah says
Yes, I feel like Tara’s quilts have a very specific look that is easy to identify, and it’s all because of color! I really enjoyed the class.
Karen Moore says
It is surprising how colours that we would have never used look so good together.
Sarah says
It really is! It has motivated me to get out of my typical color “box” more often.