Have you ever dressed to match your quilt? Accidentally or
on purpose?
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My quilt and I match!
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Here at Interweave, the teams of Quilting Arts,
Stitch, and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines take a few moments out each week to
gather together for Show and Tell. We show projects we've finished or started,
we reveal the results of challenges we've held amongst ourselves, and we even
show off other accomplishments and milestones like a completed kitchen reno or
a new pet. (Photos substitute for the real things, of course.)
At this week's Show and Tell, I revealed a cute little baby
quilt I created for our spring edition of Modern Patchwork magazine (which will
be coming out around April). I used fabrics designed by Lotta Jansdotter, whose
aesthetic I adore. Her fabrics appeal to my Scandinavian heart and her colors
are fresh and fun.
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Don't you love the orange shoes?
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So I'm standing there, holding my quilt in front of me and
talking about it. My coworkers are smiling, some are giggling a little. "Hmm,"
I say to myself. "Is my fly down? Do I have spinach in my teeth?"
And then someone says, "Look, you're wearing the same colors
that are in your quilt!"
Well, what do you know, I was! My teal sweater and orange
shoes matched pretty darn close to the teal and orange in my quilt. And,
although I used white fabric in the quilt, my khaki pants were pretty close in
the neutral department. I had to laugh!
It's funny how you're sometimes drawn to the same colors
over and over again. I love a pop of orange in my wardrobe as well as my
quilts. I guess you work with what you love, right?
Kristine