Welcome, I know things are a little different this month….we are doing the guest post first and announcing the winner from last month. I hope this works for you all. My post on Purple, with the challenge (hint: inspiration boards) and link-up will appear this weekend.

Guest Post: Sandi Hazlewood

Sandi is a quilter, garment sewer, pattern designer and podcaster living in San Diego, CA. Known as the Crafty Planner, Sandi blogs at craftyplanner.com and posts on Instagram as @craftyplanner. She is one of the co-founders and first President of the San Diego Modern Quilt Guild along with serving on the Nominations Committee for the Modern Quilt Guild. Her weekly podcasts have featured guests such as Lizzy House, Tula Pink, Denyse Schmidt, Gwen Marston and more.

She LOVES purple! For her blog post, she will show you how the color purple can be combined with almost any color to make visually attractive quilts.

Challenge Winner

I loved seeing the art pieces you all chose and how you translated that into fabric. Such a great job. The winner of the challenge is Toni Jo Sews. I will email you shortly with details.

This month, our guest post is by Heather Jones. Heather is on the top of my list for most inspirational designers. She recently released her book, Quilt Local: Finding Inspiration in the Everyday, which is amazing, as it looks at the world around you and how you can transform that world into your quilt or piece of work. I also love her play with scale. I am looking forward to her new fabric line that was introduced at quilt market last week “Color Dash” (Robert Kaufman Designer).

Her blog post, this month, talks about how she introduced these colors into her quilts and learned to work with them. I think, those who are apprehensive of using coral and/or peaches will find this very useful.

Challenge Link-up

This challenge is a mini research project, and hopefully expanding your inspiration focus. Find an artist (fine arts – oil, printing, painting, drawing) who uses peaches and corals in their work. What other colors do they use with this color palette? Now try to recreate this color palette using your own prints and/or solids. Next week, I will provide you a link-up in the guest post introduction, to add your fabric pull with description of the artist (and link) to the pieces of work you were inspired by.

The prize this month is a 6 piece peach and coral bundle from Art Gallery Fabrics and a $20 Gift card from the Fat Quarter Shop. The link-up is open until 31st May (11:55pm). Winner will be announced in next month’s first post.