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Well, it will be next week anyway! I get very excited for my family beach week every year. It's great to spend time with my brothers and their families and it's always wonderful to kick off summer with a beach experience. I clearly had it on my mind in the dye studio last week as evidenced by today's fabrics. I also have a beach week for you. Read below for details. Because I'll be away there will be no orders shipped next week. Any orders after May 20 will be shipped May 31. New Stash Pack Sunshine Stash Pack  Caribbean Stash Pack A couple of weeks ago I dyed "the ocean" with the new Caribbean Stash Pack. This week I'm added in the sun! The Sunshine Stash Pack is 100% sun inspired. Each Stash Pack has 10 fat eighths of fabrics in a variety of color combinations and color texture. I love them for scrappy style quilts but I think most people use them for elements in art quilts. You can use them any way you want!
Each Stash Pack has 5 streaky fabrics and 5 mottled fabrics. Here are larger views of 6 of the fabrics. There are so many possibilities for fussy cutting applique or landscape elements. Gradients Back In StockThere are 4 Gradients back in stock this week and several of them would make great water or sky elements.  Clear Day  Frolic  Beach Walk  Sugar Maple Fabric of the Week Forest Canopy Dye Mistake - 25% off! The fabric of the week this week is a dye mistake! This was supposed to be Forest Canopy but I dyed that middle orange too dark. In my opinion, it still looks great. It makes me think of a forest fire. But it's not "right" so you can pick this one up for 25% off while it's still around. This one won't be coming back. Beach Week Giveaway While I'm away next week I'm leaving behind a daily giveaway for you to enter. There are 6 in all, one each day Monday through Saturday. I'm really excited about the prizes and I hope you will be too!
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Today's fabric offerings celebrate blue! I don't like the phrase "I've got the blues". I don't think of blue as sad. I think of it as peaceful, relaxing and expansive. Looking at a bright sky or vast ocean makes me stop , take a deep cleansing breath and enjoy the moment. I hope that's the feeling these blues bring to you and your next art project. First up is a new Stash Pack.  New Stash Pack! Caribbean I'm continuing to make more Stash Packs! These are so much fun to make and try to dream up great color and texture combinations. I love bright, happy blues reminiscent of tropical seas. That's what inspired this new Caribbean Stash Pack. Each Stash Pack has 10 fat eighths of fabrics in a variety of color combinations and color texture. I love them for scrappy style quilts but I think most people use them for elements in art quilts. You can use them any way you want!
Each Stash Pack has 5 streaky fabrics and 5 mottled fabrics. Here are larger views of 6 of the fabrics. There are so many possibilities for fussy cutting applique or landscape elements. Gradients Back in StockI've also gotten several Gradients back in stock this week. Each one is in keeping with the blue theme.  Blue Sky Gradient  Ebb Tide Gradient  Peacock Gradient  Midnight Gradient Fabric of the Week Midnight Shades Pack - 20% off through Sunday! Many of the Gradients have coordinating Shades Packs. This one is not only coordinated with the Midnight Gradient, it's named the same. The Midnight Shades Pack is 20% off through Sunday.
Shop AnnouncementI will be away April 26 - May 1 getting inspired at the AQS Paducah quilt show (as a visitor, not a vendor). Any orders placed during that time will be shipped May 2. New Stash Pack New! Spring Greens Stash Pack Stash Packs have been extremely popular lately and I'm having to work very hard to get some back in stock. I always try to keep two green-themed packs available at all times. The most popular version is Spring Greens. Spring Greens is made of all bright, yellow-based greens reflective of early Spring foliage. This one makes me really happy! Each Stash Pack has 10 fat eighths of fabrics in a variety of color combinations and color texture. I love them for scrappy style quilts but I think most people use them for elements in art quilts. You can use them any way you want!
Each Stash Pack has 5 streaky fabrics and 5 mottled fabrics. Here are larger views of 6 of the fabrics. There are so many possibilities for fussy cutting applique or landscape elements. Fabric of the Week Malachite Stash Pack is 20% off through Sunday! Staying on theme, the Fabric of the Week this week is another green Stash Pack. Malachite is a collection of grayer greens and would be a great complement to Spring Greens to add a lot of green variety to your fabric collection.
 New! Zinnia Stash Pack I am not a gardener. I enjoy weeding and spreading mulch for the exercise and that's about it. I do love gardens and think they are beautiful, especially when someone else is doing the work. I especially love gardens full of bright flowers. For big bursts of colors you can't beat a flower bed full of Zinnias. A Zinnia seed packet was my inspiration for this new Stash Pack. Each Stash Pack has 10 fat eighths of fabrics in a variety of color combinations and color texture. I love them for scrappy style quilts but I think most people use them for elements in art quilts. You can use them any way you want!
The Stash pack has 5 streaky fabrics and 5 mottled fabric. Here are larger views of 6 of the fabrics. There are so many possibilities for fussy cutting applique or landscape elements. Fabric of the Week Imperial Dragon is 20% off through Sunday! It's a short newsletter this week because I only have the one new fabric. Most of my energy lately has been absorbed with custom dyed orders. I love doing custom orders and am always happy to discuss your fabric dreams with you.
This week's Fabric of the Week is the Imperial Dragon Gradient. I chose this one to stay with the color story of Zinnia. Imperial Dragon is 20% off through Sunday.  Crayon Box Stash pack is back! There's one fabric pack that is my absolute favorite and it's Crayon Box. It's taken me a couple of week but I finally have it back in stock for you!
This pack is based on the Color Wheel fabrics with an extra twist. There are 20 fabrics in this set of fat eighths (2.5 yards total). There are 10 streaky fabrics, one in each Color Wheel color. The other 10 fabrics are mottled and combine adjacent colors. For example, there's one that's half Yellow and half Yellow-Red. Another is a Green/Blue Green combo. There's one mottled fabric for every adjacent pair on the Color Wheel. This pack is not included in the Basics permanent sale price but that's simply because it's much more involved to produce. But for $45 you get 20 different fabrics!  The Color Wheel fabrics are a set of Stash Packs and Shades Packs based on the 10-step Munsell Color System. I have 3 Stash packs based on this system. Each has 10 fabrics, one in each color step of the system. There are three packs: one is "full strength", one is medium value and one is light value. This week The Color Wheel Light is back in stock! You can see all of the Color Wheel fabrics in the shop. I've made several projects with the Color Wheel fabrics but the Rainbow Quilt (tutorial at the link) is one of my favorites. I made this in three sizes (king, lap and baby) but the time I was done with the fabrics. Fabric of the Week Oasis Gradient is 20% off through Sunday!  Humpback Whale by Ann Jensen The Oasis Gradient is one that is loosely based on the Color Wheel colors. This week it's 20% off through Sunday!
Ann Jensen used the Oasis Gradient in her Humpback Whale pillow cover. I think that you all realize that my business is a tiny business. I make and sell hand dyed fabric simply because I love doing it. I pay enough attention to know that Gradients and Stash Packs are the most popular products but beyond that I mostly dye what I'm in the mood for. But when a gradient fabric sells quickly on a regular basis I try to pay attention. That's what today is all about. These are some of the most popular gradients that I allowed to get out of stock and now they are back!  Barrier Island  Play on Curves by Rachel Derstine Rachel Derstine used Barrier Island and Sugar Maple in her art quilt, Play on Curves.  Forest Canopy  Humpback Whale pillow cover by Ann Jensen Ann Jensen used Forest Canopy for the sky and water elements in her Humpback Whale pillow cover. She used Midnight for the whale.  Monterey Bay  art quilt by Sandi Schadt Sandi Schadt used Monterey Bay gradient and Algae Shades Pack in her holiday wall hanging.  Sundance  Vitamin C by Patricia Caldwell Patricia Caldwell used Sundance for her Vitamin C art quilt. Almost all of the elements in this quilt are from the Sundance gradient!  I don't have a customer project made with Salt Marsh yet but you have purchased so much of it that I expect to see a project soon! Fabric of the Week Morning Glory is 20% off through Sunday  Morning Glorified by Irma Lubbe The fabric of the week this week is the Morning Glory gradient. It's 20% off through Sunday. Irma Lubbe used this in her art quilt, Morning Glorified.
Successful quilts have good contrast. It might be color contrast but more often it's a value contrast of light and dark. Today's post is about the dark.  New! Shadows Stash Pack This new Stash Pack is all about the dark shadows that are needed to make the light and bright elements stand out. This new Stash Pack was created with the shadows in mind. I wanted everything dark with bits of light shining through.  Black Gradient Back in Stock Back in stock this week is the Black Gradient. This is a great way to get a sampling of shades of gray and black for several levels of shadows.
I'm very excited to share some new gradients....as well as a few restocked favorites. Introducing New! Campfire Gradient Campfire is a transition from ashes (grays) to flame. The browns are all warm browns and Cinnamon is a related Stash Pack for this one.  New! South Beach Gradient South Beach came out of my desire for winter to quickly end and Spring to get here! The colors remind me of the bright neon colors of Miami. Back in Stock!These gradients are all back in stock this week. Imperial Dragon Gradient  Red Sunset Gradient  Succulents Gradient Fabric of the Week Cinnamon Shades - 20% off through Sunday! The fabric of the week this week is the Cinnamon Shades Pack. It coordinates with the new Campfire Gradient featured above. Cinnamon is on sale through Sunday.
 New Southwest Gradient This week's newsletter is totally focused on Gradients. I've been working to get many of them back in stock. But, based on feedback from a customer, I decided to finally update the original Southwest Gradient and I love the change! The new version is brighter and has less brown in the middle. I really struggled with a creative name so I am just calling it New Southwest. Clever, huh? Gradients Back in StockThe last two weeks I've been focused on dyeing gradients (along with a bunch of custom orders). Fortunately Gradients are your favorite and mine. They are fun to dye to see how the colors blend together. I can also do custom gradients based your own palette. Sometimes the custom gradients are so awesome that they become new shop gradients. I'm always open to hearing your ideas for new gradients! These 5 are back in stock this week.  Azure Sea  Niagara Oasis  Pueblo  Trumpet Vine Fabric of the WeekGalaxies are 25% off through Sunday! Use coupon code GALAXY25 at checkout. This week all Galaxy fabrics are 25% off through Sunday!
Galaxies are very unique fabrics. They are dyed as a part of the ice dyeing process. That process creates very large scale prints and each piece is at least 2 yards in length. Some have symmetry and some have folded texture effects. These fabrics can often be challenging to use. They are great for quilt backs but I prefer to use them as large scale elements in my quilts. My Maine quilt was made with sun printed fabrics cut into large apple core blocks. It was a Galaxy fabric that worked perfectly for the border blocks and binding. It pulled the whole quilt together. You can get your own Galaxy fabrics this week at 25% off! Use code GALAXY25 at checkout.  New Stars! This week I have 11 new Stars fabrics in the shop. Stars are 1 yard cuts that read as solid. I started creating them when customers asked for binding fabrics. But they are used for all sorts of things. Need a bigger piece of blue for a deep blue sea? Check out the Stars. Need a bigger cut of trees for your forest? Maybe a Star fabric will be your answer. They are even great for whole cloth quilts. Black is back! Black Shades Packs in Fat Quarters and Half Yards  The Prophet by Stephanie Wilds I spent a long time working out a recipe for a black dye that would gradate to light shades of gray. Most blacks gradate with significant brown or blue tones. This black creates beautiful shades of true light gray. Because black is so strong I created the Black Shades Packs in 8 steps so that you get the lighter shades. I apologize that these have been out of stock for several weeks but both Fat Quarter and Half Yard sets are now back in stock! Stephanie Wilds uses the Black Shades Pack in her fabric portraits. Fabric of the WeekWith the new Stars fabrics in the shop there are now over 30 Stars fabrics to choose from! This week they are all on sale 20% off! The sale ends Sunday so get yours soon! All STARS are 20% off through Sunday!
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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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