Fabric Collection

After being waylaid with other design work, I have finished my next quilt fabric collection. It includes 6 patterns.  The focal fabric, that big flower with the fancy stripe is awesome! It was inspired by an antique French textile.

This is the the "working" color palette, but that yellow/green is not quite right, a little off-putting. I'll be going in now and exploring alternatives. 

The collection I have planned next will be much simpler, perhaps just three colors.

After I initially posted the image above, I revamped the colors. These are happier, friendlier.

New Colorway

I've completed the third and final colorway for this group.

Tomorrow, I'll begin work designing a new quilt fabric collection!

Another Digital Quilt Block

After recoloring my recent quilt fabric collection, I applied it to a different digital quilt block than yesterday's.

It makes me happy!

Quilt Fabric Collections

I'm working on quilt fabric collections this week. It's fun, but not as easy as it might look.

I find it very helpful to apply the patterns to quilt blocks to check the balance of scale. I also check for  a balance of lights, mediums and darks, which turns out to be a hardest part for me.

This group is really pretty though. I'd put a quilt on my bed made of these designs!

Product Sighing

I made another product sighting today at Target. This is a pattern I sold to Kleenex awhile back.

Always fun to see my designs in the market place!

Chevron

Need a tennis skirt? Go to Smashgal where you'll find SO many prints and colors.

Look for this design of mine: Tracy Miller Designs pattern. 

The original looked like this, but I love the colorway they came up with.

Reinterperting Vintage Images

There's nothing as satisfying for me than taking a vintage image and reinterpreting it.

Most often the design ends up in repeat that can then be applied as surface art to fabric for quilts or apparel. Sometimes, though, it's just a great image that I'll save until I find a use for it.

This girl on the bike was from a children's learn-to-draw tracing book. I kept the drawing as loose as the original, and adding color and some pattern made her new again!