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Sunday Stash: The Shades of Cyan

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Are you confused when people talk about aqua, teal, jade, turquoise, topaz or cyan?? This is one of my favorite color ranges at the moment. Cyan is actually one of three of the secondary colors in the RGB color models. All these colors can be considered a tint or shade of Cyan. I thought the shades were well represented in this wikipedia page.

I decided to take a pull of my Kona Solids and my prints to show you all, as a base.

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Here are some prints in my stash that fall in this range.

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From left to right:

  1.  Electreecity in Marine, Jungle Ave – Sara Lawson
  2. Full Circle in Blue Jay, The Shape of Spring – Eloise Renouf
  3. Bike Path, Sun Print Bike Path in teal – Alison Glass
  4. Corsage, Clover Sunshine – Alison Glass
  5. Netorious in teal, Cotton and Steel Basics
  6. Stylus Text in Lagoon, Indelible – Katarina Roccella
  7. Korkek in Jade, Glimma – Lotta Jansdotter
  8. Queen Anns Butterflies in Topaz, Alchemy – Amy Butler
  9. 1000 Cranes in Cerulean, Tsuru – Rashida Coleman Hale
  10. Leaves in Turquoise, Beyond the Backyard – Jane Farnham
  11. Pearl Bracelet in Swiss Chard, Pearl Bracelets – Lizzie House
  12. Squared Elements in Kings Road Turquoise, Squared Elements, Art Gallery Fabrics
  13. Turtle Bay in Turquoise, Prince Charming – Tula Pink
  14. Monarch in Aqua, August – Sarah Watts
  15. Arrows in Mint, Moonlit – Rashida Coleman Hale
  16. XOXO in On the rocks, Cotton and Steel Basics
  17. Dottie in Bluebird, Cotton and Steel Basics
  18. Butterfly in Blue, A beautiful thing – Zoe Pearn
  19. Chicken Coop in Egg Blue, Birch Farm – Joel Dewberry

I have so many more prints I could share, but I limited myself to 10 minutes 😉 Linking up with Molli Sparkles for Sunday Stash (see button on the right).

QDAD: Quilt Design a Day (Week 7)

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This week, saw the start of a “Challenge Week” for the Quilt Design of the Day group. A topic is posted at the start of the day, and then you choose to participate or not. It was a lot of fun.

31 July: Gridded

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The rigging on the sail boats inspired this grid like pattern. I love the work from Yoshiko Jinzenji, and earlier this year tried out some applique, which I think I would use to add the grid lines to this piece.
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However, the palette would not be a keeper for me. I would really like to do this one a dark crossweace fabric with black, cream or grey prints….I loved the pop of red in the single square. QDAD_Gridded_Grey31JULY2014

1 August:

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The palette had so many great colors today. I really wanted to play with the outer circle of a drunkard path block. This initial design I found to be just too big….
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…so, I played some more. I am partial to the third one.QDAD_1AUG2014_v3    QDAD_1AUG2014_v2

2 August: Shelves

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I was on facebook and a suggested post of a modern bookcase was on my page….that turned into this design. Cerise will be a new background color for sure 🙂
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3 August: Challenge Day 1 “Triangles”

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I used both color palettes this day to show the same design. This is my favorite of the week. I love both palettes with the linen background. Using the green’s + grey from the flamingo print:QDAD_FlyingGeeseGreenLinen_3August2014

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And the browns, creams and grey from the feathers:QDAD_FlyingGeeseBrownLinen_3August2014

4 August: Challenge Day 2 “300”

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This was hard for me to come up with…in the end I chose a low-volume background with the Roman Numeric for 300 “CCC”.QDAD_300v2_4August2014

5 August: Challenge Day 3 ” Squares” – Diamonds are forever

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I loved the blue palette for this one and decided that a mix of prints and a little solid was great for this simple design.
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6 August: Challenge Day 4 “Circles” – Through Shattered Rose Glasses

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This design is an older design that I refurbished for the pick palette. The original is based on Alice in Wonderland “Through the Shattered Looking Glass“. First of one using a cream background:
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Or a darker background:
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That’s it for this week, more on the challenges in next week’s post. I have created a summary page here, if you want to take a look at previous weeks.

UFO’s and the Neighbourhood Quilt

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Ok, so where did July go???

I wanted to let you all know that I may be a little busy over the next few weeks. Great news, it is all to do with sewing/quilting. Over the weekend, after finishing another quilt top, I laid out all my UFO’s….quilt top finishes.
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3 of the quilt tops were finished in the last 3 months, the other 3 in the last year. To add to the pile, I have at least 2-3 additional quilt tops in the works; one of which, is the Neighbourhood Quilt. I have started the 3rd row, and decided on all the Oakshott Cotton colors I will be using for the other blocks.

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So, my priorities (well lets say its more a refocus exercise) over the next few weeks are:

  • Finish “Neighborhood” Quilt – top, baste, quilt and bind (this will be my main goal for August for A Lovely Year of Finishes)
  • Finish “Spoonflower Sampler” Quilt – baste, quilt and bind,
  • Finish “Phased Circles” Quilt – baste, quilt and bind,
  • Finish testing a paper piecing pattern – piece/top, baste, quilt and bind,
  • Finish two other projects (they are a secret for now ;-)) – cut, piece, top, baste, quilt and bind.

I plan to continue doing some of my usual posts WiP Wednesday, QDAD on Thursday, Finish it up Friday and Sunday Stash, they just might be a little intermittent.

Don’t you hate it when those projects sneak up on you :-). Linking up with Lee over at Freshly Pieced for WiP Wednesday and linking up with A Lovely year of finishes (see buttons on the right).