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Play With Color

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There is a certain new book out that has me planning several quilts.  I got my nose out of it long enough this weekend to start auditioning fabrics for one of the projects in it.  I plan to blog more about the book and my project next week, but today I thought I would give you some little teaser tid bits.

Aren't the colors in this Bali Pop, "Grasshopper", beautiful?  I adore batiks for one main reason:  They let you just play with color.  You don't have to worry about prints or directional fabrics–just pure color and value.  They bring out the artist in all of us.

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I couldn't help myself.  I just had to start cutting, and before you knew it, I had all my strips for the project cut out.

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And then, don't you know, one thing led to another and I had to start piecing those units together.

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I promise I will share more with you next week.  This project is going together like a dream, and you will want to make it as well, I just know it!

Thanks to all of you for your wonderful comments to Thelma and I on our Belle Meade quilts.  That was a labor of love, and I doubt that I would have gotten through it so quickly without Thelma's encouragement and enthusiasm.

36 responses to “Play With Color”

  1. I know EXACTLY how that goes…once you get inspired, you just can’t help yourself and you have to start sewing to see how the blocks are going to look! Love the fabrics and can’t wait to see which project you are making!

  2. I know EXACTLY how that goes…once you get inspired, you just can’t help yourself and you have to start sewing to see how the blocks are going to look! Love the fabrics and can’t wait to see which project you are making!

  3. What delicious fabrics! I’m looking forward to more information and more photos, you tease, you! As likely as not, you’ll have the whole quilt top finished by next week anyway.
    Love those batiks!
    Hugs!

  4. What delicious fabrics! I’m looking forward to more information and more photos, you tease, you! As likely as not, you’ll have the whole quilt top finished by next week anyway.
    Love those batiks!
    Hugs!

  5. I bet I know which one you’re making…and I too have been eyeing that pattern in the book! Honestly I want to make everything right now! They’re really making me want to invest in only Jelly Rolls 😉

  6. I bet I know which one you’re making…and I too have been eyeing that pattern in the book! Honestly I want to make everything right now! They’re really making me want to invest in only Jelly Rolls 😉

  7. OHHHH – I have Grasshopper Bali Pops and looking for a pattern. You are such a tease. Can’t wait until you can reveal the name of the pattern/book. I have ordered Scrap Basket Sensations in hopes that maybe a pattern in there will work. Judy C

  8. OHHHH – I have Grasshopper Bali Pops and looking for a pattern. You are such a tease. Can’t wait until you can reveal the name of the pattern/book. I have ordered Scrap Basket Sensations in hopes that maybe a pattern in there will work. Judy C

  17. O.K., I may just have to make this one. Love Batiks and love grasshopper! I do have one pattern in mind. Don’t tease us too long!!

  18. O.K., I may just have to make this one. Love Batiks and love grasshopper! I do have one pattern in mind. Don’t tease us too long!!

  19. You just couldn’t help yourself, huh? LOL! This will be another beautiful project that we will all be drooling over. I finally finished a project last night during the Super Bowl that was supposed to be a Christmas gift! Eeek!

  20. You just couldn’t help yourself, huh? LOL! This will be another beautiful project that we will all be drooling over. I finally finished a project last night during the Super Bowl that was supposed to be a Christmas gift! Eeek!

  23. I can’t wait to see the quilt!! Beautiful fabrics, wonderful book, how could you go wrong? Please show the pictures soon 🙂

  24. I can’t wait to see the quilt!! Beautiful fabrics, wonderful book, how could you go wrong? Please show the pictures soon 🙂

  25. I have had the same book driving me to distraction 🙂 and I have finally picked which one I’m doing next (I’ve already done 4 so this will be #5 for me!!). Can’t wait to see yours, the batiks are gorgeous!!!

  26. I have had the same book driving me to distraction 🙂 and I have finally picked which one I’m doing next (I’ve already done 4 so this will be #5 for me!!). Can’t wait to see yours, the batiks are gorgeous!!!

  27. I bought one of those Bali Pop bundles for a project and can’t wait to use it. I haven’t sewn with batiks for a while, but I love to. They “move” differently than regular cotton, if you know what I mean. Luscious!

  28. I bought one of those Bali Pop bundles for a project and can’t wait to use it. I haven’t sewn with batiks for a while, but I love to. They “move” differently than regular cotton, if you know what I mean. Luscious!

  31. Love those batiks ! I know what you mean , once you start a new project it is hard to stop. You will probably have this one done by the end of week at this rate.

  32. Love those batiks ! I know what you mean , once you start a new project it is hard to stop. You will probably have this one done by the end of week at this rate.

  33. Looks like Over and Under from Kim Brackett’s Scrap Basket Sensations… Love her books and they are PERFECT for Bali pops! Can’t wait to see your finished project and then start one of my own!!

  34. Looks like Over and Under from Kim Brackett’s Scrap Basket Sensations… Love her books and they are PERFECT for Bali pops! Can’t wait to see your finished project and then start one of my own!!