Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
In your current projects, do you find that you're using more blenders than last year? The same amount? Or less?
Do you prefer marbles/mottled fabrics, or tonal prints?
Are your tastes changing?
We've been noticing a trend, in our shop... but I wanted to ask "The Quilters" before I share what we've been seeing.
I use solids, marbles, TOTs, and tonal batiks almost exclusively now, so, as a group, probably somewhat more than last year. Not sure if they can be called 'blenders' if I use nothing else, but what the hey. :lol:
I use marbles the least because I'm not happy with the current quality of Moda Marbles (it's too thin, imho) and I don't like the marble effect on most other lines. I do keep looking for them, however.
I use solids a lot, both for 100% solid quilts and in combination with anything and everything else. I also use solids as a base fabric for discharging, stamping, and printing. In solids, I use Kona Solids and Moda Bella exclusively.
The tonals, both regular and batik, are the bulk of what I now buy and use. Because color is so important, and 'playing well with others already in the game' is critical, I usually buy in person and my LQS is quite used to me finding a patch of daylight to compare color matches. :oops: Only if I am replenishing something I have used before, will I buy online (and I refuse to match colors in person then go buy it online, the local shop owners are friends of mine).
You did not mention hand-dyes and gradations, but those also play a role in the 'blender' category and I am starting to add more to my stash, both through purchase and experimenting with dyeing my own.
No, I don't think my tastes are changing, just becoming more refined. :lol: