choosing fabric for quilt – Color Girl Quilts by Sharon McConnell

01 Oct

Sew Colorful: October is for Quilters

October 1, 2018
Posted by Sharon
choosing fabric for quilt, easy sampler quilt blocks, modern sampler blocks quilt, sampler quilt
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Happy October! It's such a beautiful time of year, happens to be my birthday month (and it's a big one this year, eeps!), and quilting is STILL my favorite thing to do, so let's...

07 Mar

Fabric

For the Love of Fabric: Wonderful Things

March 7, 2017
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Art Gallery Fabrics, choosing fabric for quilt, modern quilting, quilting with color
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Goodness! Doesn't it just seem like there is always so much beautiful fabric available and we just can't create quickly enough to use it all? I have been feeling that way lately (maybe that's why...

21 Jan

Fabric, Quilting Interest

For the Love of Fabric: Garden Dreamer

January 21, 2017
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Art Gallery Fabrics, choosing fabric for quilt, Garden Dreamer Fabric
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Have you seen the new Garden Dreamer fabrics by Maureen Cracknell (Art Gallery Fabrics)? I am loving the jewel tone colors and basic prints in this one. Just plain beautiful. The collection is pretty well...

27 Dec

Fabric, Quilting Interest, Work in progress

Here Comes the Fun!

December 25, 2016
Posted by Sharon
Art Gallery Fabrics, Bright Quilt Fabrics, choosing fabric for quilt
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A brand new collection has landed from Art Gallery Fabrics! Here Comes the Fun, designed by Caroline Hulse (@sewcaroline) is pretty much irresistible to a color lover like me. These are my kind of...

21 Oct

Fabric, Favorites

For the Love of Fabric: Lagom

October 21, 2016
Posted by Sharon
Art Gallery Fabrics, choosing fabric for quilt, Lagom Fabrics, quilting fabrics
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When I saw the Lagom fabric collection at Spring Quilt Market in May, I instantly loved the minimal prints and colors! Lagom is a Swedish word meaning, "just the right amount". That pretty much...

26 Aug

Fabric, Quilting Interest

For the Love of Fabric: Uppercase

August 27, 2016
Posted by Sharon
choosing fabric for quilt, modern patchwork, quilt fabric ideas, Uppercase fabric
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Some fabrics just grab you. I subscribe to the Uppercase magazine, so I saw early last spring that Janine Vangool had designed a fabric collection for Windham. This news made me very excited! The...

05 Jun

Fabric

For the Love of Fabric: Lavish

June 5, 2016
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Art Gallery Fabrics, choosing fabric for quilt, fabric, Lavish fabrics by Katarina Roccella, what goes with what
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Last week I told you about a quilt top I just finished using primarily the new Lavish collection fabrics (see it here). This week I want to tell you a little more about the...

06 Jan

Fabric, Favorites, Quilting Interest

For the Love of Fabric: “For You”

January 6, 2016
Posted by Sharon
choosing fabric for quilt, For You fabrics by Zen Chic, moda fabrics, what goes with what fabric
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One of my all time favorite quilting fabric collections is "For You" by designer Brigitte Heitland (Zen Chic) for Moda. These fabrics came out last summer, and I was lucky enough to get a...

30 Aug

Fabric, Quilting Interest

For the Love of Fabric: “Curiosities”

August 29, 2015
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Art Gallery Fabrics, choosing fabric for quilt, what goes with Curiosities fabrics
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When I first saw the sneak peeks of the Curiosities fabric collection from Art Gallery Fabrics last spring, I knew I would love it. Then, at quilt market in Minneapolis in May, I got...

03 Jul

Fabric, Quilting Interest

For the Love of Fabric: True Colors

June 30, 2015
Posted by Sharon
choosing fabric for quilt, Free Spirit Fabrics, Tula Pink True Colors
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It probably comes as no surprise that I have a new favorite fabric range about every other week, and it is also not a big surprise that I am totally in love with the...

12 3

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