 On The Horizon  Lap quilt by Patricia Caldwell Remember a couple of weeks ago when I thought I was dyeing On the Horizon? Instead I applied the dye in the wrong order and got NOT On The Horizon. There's still some of "Not" on sale but now I have the real On The Horizon back in the shop! You might have seen this quilt in the Customer Gallery. Patricia Caldwell used On The Horizon for her sashing and borders to great effect.  Imperial Dragon Gradient  Rainbow Reflections by Patricia Caldwell Also back in stock this week is Imperial Dragon. Patricia Caldwell sent us another of her beautiful quilts, this one using Imperial Dragon as the background. She added lots of thread work, fibers, painting and beadwork to make Rainbow Reflections. Fabric of the Week Mulberry Shades - 20% off through Sunday  Lady by Stephanie Wilds The Fabric of the Week is the Mulberry Shades Pack. This one seems to be most popular for monochromatic portrait quilts. Stephanie Wilds is the expert that I loot to for portrait quilts like this one of Lady, done in black. Mulberry would be a nice choice for some skin tones.
Mulberry is 20% off through Sunday.
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This week's news is all about gradients. I've been inspired lately to design some new gradient designs and I have 2 of those to share today.  New! Sunflowers Gradient If you read the blog regularly you will remember the sunflower-themed gifts that I made for my friend. Those colors really stuck with me and I took those to design this new gradient. It reminds me a field of sunflowers in full bloom.  New! Vintage Rose Hand Dyed Fabric As I was looking back through my dye binder I landed on a beautiful soft pink that I accidentally developed a few years ago. I decided that I wanted to bring it to life in a new gradient. The colors remind my of vintage fabrics with giant cabbage roses and that's how this beauty got it's name. It would make lovely rose petals and leaves in an floral applique. Fabric of the Week NOT On the Horizon - 25% off! One of the fabrics that I was supposed to dye last week was a restock of the On The Horizon gradient. Each of my gradients have 6 - 7 colors and the first one that I spread on this fabric was put in the wrong place! It's still a beautiful fabric but it's NOT On The Horizon! As a result, this new one is going directly to Clearance at 25% off. When it's gone, hopefully it will not be back!
Little did I know when I was dyeing this fabric, that I'd be looking at snow out my window while writing this post. There isn't a dot of bright green out my window but I have it right here next to me. It's my hope for Spring to arrive soon!  New! Spring Greens Stash Pack Greens are the most popular fabrics in Stash Packs and that's why I keep at least 3 options in stock for you. These fabrics are so perfect for applique leaves, vines and trees. Green fabrics, of course, are made by blending blues and yellows. For Autumn Greens I blend with a golden yellow to capture mature autumnal colors. For Spring Greens I blend with a bright yellow to get the shades of new Spring growth. Each Stash Pack has 8 fat eights of fabric. They aren't meant to all blend together. They are meant to give you a wide variety of shades and values for your Spring Garden. Becky Brown loves using Stash Packs for her botanical applique. Here are a few examples of how she fussy cuts these fabrics to make her leaves and vines look like they came straight from the garden. Fabric of the Week Envy Gradient - 20% off through Sunday If you need a range of bright green in the same color but different values, you can't go wrong with the Envy Gradient. Envy is on sale 20% off through Sunday.
 Succulents Gradient Today's post is going to be very brief. We have satellite internet and it rained all day yesterday. As a result, working on the internet was painful! So I'm going to quickly share my three bits of news with you and then sign off. First up, the Succulents Gradient is back in stock! I've never had a gradient sell out on the day it's revealed until I released Succulents 2 weeks ago. If you wanted some and missed out, it's back!  Gray Skies Gradient is back! Also back in stock this week is the Gray Skies gradient. This one coordinates with the Black Gradient. The darkest shade of Gray Skies is the middle shade of the Black gradient. Fabric of the Week Malachite Stash Pack - 20% off through Sunday! The fabric of the week this week is the Malachite Stash Pack. Stash Packs have 10 fat eighths of very color textured fabrics. This one is ready to provide leaves and trees for your next art quilt.
Before we talk Shibori, I wanted to mention that Succulents will be back in stock next week. I've never had a Gradient sell out in one hour of the newsletter going out, until now! But if you missed it, I'll have it back for you next week.  Gosen Shibori Stash Pack  Shibata Stash Pack This week there's new Shibori, starting with the Gosen Stash Pack. The Stash Packs have 8 fat eighths of Shibori fabric. With this pack I attempted a wide variety of color effects for water, reeds, sunsets and grassy fields. Let your creative imagination run wild. It's one of the rare times when I have 2 Shibori Stash Packs available. There are a couple of the Shibata pack left. The fat eighths of Shibori have the pattern going across the 1/2 yard width of the fabric. Each fat eighth measures approximately 9" x 19". There is a light side where part of the fabric is overlapped on the pole. When working on my Shibori Moons quilt I discovered that I could use that effect to get 2 very different moons from each fabric. There are also some new "full size" pieces. Each of these is 1/2 yard wide. Each listing has a full size image of the fabrics. You can check them all out here. Fabric of the Week Monterey Bay - 20% off through Sunday Shibori fabric always first makes me think of water so I had to stick with the water theme for the fabric of the week. This week the Monterey Bay Gradient is 20% off through Sunday. This gradient is perfect for an underwater adventure quilt but would also be great for stormy skies.
New! Succulents Gradient I'm in the mood to make a bunch of new gradients so I've been scouring the interwebs and my own photos for inspiration. Succulents is my first new gradient of 2021 and I love it! There's loads of texture in this one for a background or fussy cutting. The inspiration (and name) for this one came from the popular Design Seeds website. It's such a wonderful resource and I'm sure that between us we have spent endless hours there looking for color inspiration. Gradients Back In StockKeeping my focus on Gradients I've got 2 gradients back in stock.  Sunshine and Shadows  Copper Trails by Patricia Caldwell Artist Patricia Caldwell has worked with Sunshine and Shadows in several of her art quilts but I think my favorite is this one, Copper Trails. I think it uses the gradient beautifully. Sunshine and Shadows is also a nice representation of the Pantone 2021 colors of the year, Ultimate Gray and Illuminating.  Coleus Gradient  Daylily by Becky Brown Coleus Gradient was inspired by some of my Grandmother's favorite plants. Becky Brown used this gradient to create a fabric painting of one of her favorite flowers, the Daylily. Fabric of the Week The fabric of the week this week is a whole category! Stars are 1 yard cuts of mottled colors. These work great as solids in your pieced quilts and make beautiful quilted whole cloth art quilts. They are on sale for 20% off through Sunday. Just use coupon code STARS20 at checkout.
I've got some blues of my own to cure that! I hope you had a nice holiday. I know we were all happy to turn the page on the calendar. I had a wonderful 2 week break. We didn't really go anywhere but it was just nice to have a break without structure or due dates and to spend some time with family. I'm excited to kick off the new year with a new Stash Pack.  Nightlife Stash Pack I love dark, brooding blues and grays and I got everything I wanted in this new Stash Pack called Nightlife. The inspiration was cloudy night skies and moon reflections on water. I hope you think that I captured those moods in this pack of 10 fat eighths.
Here are 6 of the fabrics in the set. On the left are fabrics that I think are perfect for moonlit skies. On the right are waves and ripples reflecting moonlight. Of course, you may see something totally different in these fabrics. I'm more of a traditional quilter, so these are great for a blue scrappy quilt as well. Check out Nightlife and all the other Stash Packs in the shop. Fabric of the Week Indra Shades Pack - 20% off through Sunday  Keeping with the blue theme, the fabric of the week this week is the Indra Shades Pack. It's one of my favorite blues. I sued it as the background fabric in my Grandmother's Choice quilt. The blocks are made from the Shades Pack and the border is a gradient of the same color.
Indra is 20% off through Sunday. If you want pieces larger than fat quarters just order multiple quantities. I will dye each shade as one continuous piece.  I honestly don't usually pay any attention to the Pantone Color of the Year but this year I actually like it. It would be hard to go wrong with gray in any of the past few years. Alone it could be the color of the year. But I also love yellows and oranges so paring the grays with a beautiful warm color was right up my alley. That inspired the fabric of the week this week. Fabric of the Week Sunshine and Shadows - 20% off through Sunday Copper Trails by Patricia Caldwell Here's my version of the Colors of the Year. My gray is darker and my yellow is more golden but I still love the combo. Sunshine and Shadows Gradient is 20% off through Sunday. Patricia Caldwell used Sunshine and Shadows for her Copper Trails quilt. Gradients Back in StockTwo of your favorite gradients are back in stock this week.  Daybreak Gradient  Sassafras Gradient  Lava Flow by Patricia Caldwell uses the Sassafras Gradient to great effect. All of the pieces for that quilt came from one fabric! I'm wishing you all a happy holiday season, no matter what you celebrate. It's been a weird year but it hasn't been an all bad year. Many of us have experimented with new hobbies, learned new new technology and learned who and what are our highest priorities. We can't be sad about that. Find the good, focus on that and enjoy the rest of 2020. I'll be back after Christmas.
Sometimes I have a clear vision and plan for what I want to dye next. Sometimes that vision turns itself into something totally different. That was the case with this week's new fabric. It turned into something so much better than what I envisioned!  New Flower Petals Stash Pack I wanted a variety of beautiful rich reds for my new Stash Pack of fat eighths. What I got were some amazing textures and as I ironed the fabric all I could think about was my friend, Becky, and her amazing applique. The textures in these fabrics are amazing and are perfect for fussy cutting applique shapes, like flower petals. Ironing took twice as long because I kept playing with the fabrics. Stash Packs are perfect for applique because you get lots of variety for the same price as yardage. Each Stash Pack has 10 fat eighths. Extended Fabric of the Week Crayon Box Stash Pack - 20% off for one more week! Since I'm on a Stash Pack kick AND there's still time for Christmas gift shopping, I've extended the sale on the Crayon Box Stash Pack for another week. This pack is great for people participating in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Check out the RSC project that Alycia made with a Color Wheel Stash Pack here.
Gift giving season in here and I'm just as stumped as you for what to get everyone on my shopping list. For those of you with quilters on your list I thought I'd try to help you out a bit this week. My Color Wheel Basics fabrics are great gifts, especially when you want to introduce someone to the fun of working with hand dyed fabrics. These are the folks that I had in mind when I created the Color Wheel Basics fabrics. I started with the Color Wheel Stash Packs in light, medium and dark values. My color wheel is based on the Munsell Color System that has 5 primaries so these Stash Packs have those 5 primaries and 5 secondary colors. The Munsell system, unlike all others that we study, is based on how we perceive color rather than how we create color. These Stash Packs each have 10 fat eighths of fabric, one in each primary and secondary color. They are 20% off every day. For each of the colors in the Color Wheel there is a coordinating Shades Pack that has 5 fat quarters in 5 shades of each color. These fabric sets are also always 20% off! Fabric of the Week Crayon Box Stash Pack - 20% off through Sunday The Crayon Box Stash Pack is back in stock just in time to be on sale this week. Crayon Box is 20 fat eighths of fabrics that coordinate with Color Wheel fabrics but with more texture and color blending than in the Basics packs. In the Crayon Box, each of the 10 Color Wheel colors are represented in 10 streaky fabrics. The other 10 fabrics are mottled blends of adjacent colors. For example, there a mottled version that is a combination of Red-Yellow and Yellow. All of these together would be wonderful in a bright happy quilt with a black or white backgrounds. This Stash Pack has a total of 2.5 yards and is 20% off through Sunday. It's normally $45 but this week it's $36. I love the Color Wheel fabrics so much that I've made at least 3 quilts with them. The quilt on the left used Color Wheel Stash Packs with a Crayon Box Stash Pack. The one on the right used only the Color Wheel Stash Pack (in fat quarters). Want it gift wrapped?I'm happy to wrap and mail your gift for you. Just add a note to your order and make sure you enter the recipient's address in the SHIP TO field. In the comment field let me know that message that you want added to the gift.
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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