Mom and I don't get much time to visit anymore, so when we do we each have to show the other what fun thing we are working on, or planning. Yesterday when I arrived at her place she had a nice set of 7 or 8 fabrics and a book out showing the quilt she is planning to make. We both agree that one aqua fabric does go with one of the other darker prints, but it has the potential to either be the zinger of the quilt or the fabric that sticks out like a sore thumb. I think she is going to have to make a practice block to find out which it will be.
I had taken a big bag of some fabrics and a couple of applique block drawings to get her opinion on some fabric choices I was thinking about using. I've got a snail pattern and have the perfect swirling orange print for the shell, and an equally perfect swirling limey green overdye for the body. I also had the problem of how to add lime green to the rctq BOM applique bee block. Mom and I were thumbing through a quilt book and found the perfect solution--an apple in the background, only I'll make mine green instead of the usual red.
An odd thing happened while looking through my fabrics. We found two whole other quilts for me to make. (Like I don't have enough quilt projects in my head and as WIPs.) Anyway we found 3 yards of yellow with white dots works perfectly with 2 yards of blue with white and yellow flowers. I'm thinking about making large, 12 inch, 4 patches out of those fabrics. The other quilt project discovery is that all the novelty prints I love to buy could be used in a brick quilt. The colors I am drawn to the most in novelties all work nicely together and I think they would make a wonderful bright fun, no math, brick quilt.
Anyway, Mom and I had a few nice hours fondling fabric, looking through quilt books, and talking about everything and nothing. Debra in VA See my quilts at