Fabric Preferences
#41
I buy lines and then get coordinating solids to go with.
The only time I don't use a line for a quilt is when I plan something in all solids.
I don't trust my eye for flow with picking my own patterned fabrics. I have a rule though. I won't buy a line of fabrics if there is more than two colors I don't like.
The only time I don't use a line for a quilt is when I plan something in all solids.
I don't trust my eye for flow with picking my own patterned fabrics. I have a rule though. I won't buy a line of fabrics if there is more than two colors I don't like.
#43
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: So Plymouth, NY
Posts: 2,502
I have favorite fabric lines but that doesn't determine what I buy. Cost is a big determination. I also get on a color kick, where I can't seem to get enough of one color. Right now I'm in my "red" phase.
#44
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: JAX
Posts: 673
I don't buy any one fabric line at all. I buy if a fabric catches my eye, but, I don't buy the coordinating fabrics. I add the fabric to my stash and when I want to use it, I will look through my stash to find fabrics I liike with it.That way I have a totally unique quilt, one that no one else will have.
#46
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Joplin, Missouri
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I have been sewing since I was a girl... Since I grew up in a post depression home we saved everything.. I have a stash of cotton fabric that is mind boggling at times.. yet, nothing really goes together like a collection does.
Now being retired, I'm only using what I have unless it's a special gift or I need backing, or I can't help myself when I see a new piece of fabric.. or.... or or. The truth is I have only once bought all the fabric for a quilt top, and it was not a collection.
At this stage of the game I don't think I'll ever justify buying fabric from one line to make a quilt.. But they look so beautiful together, almost makes me wish I'd rethink my plan.
Now being retired, I'm only using what I have unless it's a special gift or I need backing, or I can't help myself when I see a new piece of fabric.. or.... or or. The truth is I have only once bought all the fabric for a quilt top, and it was not a collection.
At this stage of the game I don't think I'll ever justify buying fabric from one line to make a quilt.. But they look so beautiful together, almost makes me wish I'd rethink my plan.
#47
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
Posts: 2,795
I guess I am the lone wolf who buys fabric lines and uses them. I love fat quarter bundles! I make Jenny Doan quilts, which she uses layer cakes, jelly rolls and charm packs. I also make scrappy quilts. I buy quilt kits and know that someone else picked out all the fabric for me but -- I loved the quilt in the magazines and just had to make it just like it was in the magazine and was thrilled that they offered a kit for it. So call the 'Quilt Police' on me. I've been quilting since 1992, so I'm no beginner. I've made advanced quilts many of times. I don't enjoy the process of having 20 different fabrics laying on the counter trying to match them to make a quilt. Not my idea of fun. I'm not good at that. It comes easy to many people. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people.
#48
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
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I don't think I have ever purchased fabric for a quilt from one fabric line. Usually, I buy what jumps out at me. Well, really a fabric that really catches my eye, which is generally my focus fabric, then I will choose coordinating fabrics from there. I was taught to have different scales in fabric, large, medium to small, and then solid or a fabric that reads as a solid, more if you want more colors. Also, check the selvedge on the focus fabric, you will generally see circles of colors that were used in that fabric, and there you have the way to choose fabrics that will go together. Hope this helps.
#49
I believe it's a huge creative disadvantage to limit consideration to a single fabric line. Some of the best coordinates I've ever found have been not only across lines, but across manufacturers. I have way too much fun playing with color, texture, scale, value, and motion to let some designer dictate what fabric I use with what.
#50
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
Posts: 7,695
I know I own designer fabrics, but I have no idea which ones they are. Once they get to my home they are sorted by color and size only. If it works for my current project, it gets used. I have no idea who made most of my stash but that is not the only part of my life that defies labeling. I have owned designer clothes too and never could remember who designed them either...
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