About Me
I love color and find a lot of freedom designing quilts in color combinatrions that I might not personally wear. One evening, half of the ladies in our local quilt club said their favorite color was purple, but I looked around and only one or two were wearing it. So I think quilt design is a great place to turn our creativity loose and let color soar.
I have been a dedicated quilter since 2000, but I have played with fabric and color since I was a kid. My sisters and I made doll clothes out of scraps of brocades, lace, silks and taffeta left over from our mother's dressmaking business. We lived at Travis Air Force Base in California and military pilots brought home gorgeous fabrics to their wives from Asia. What fun for us.
My own taste in quilting fabric runs to large multi-color prints and generally a wide variety of fabric in each quilt. I like simple quilt patterns and complex print fabrics that do the work for me of visually breaking up the surface area and adding texture. Whether prints are large or small, if they are multi-colored (not "reads as a solid from a few feet away), they will add a lot of interest and vitality to a quilt. It is almost like throwing a handful of confetti across the quilt top.
I've taught a lot of beginners to quilt and I think there are only three rules that have to be followed.
- Accurate cutting
- Accurate ¼ inch seams
- Have fun
If quilting isn't fun, why would we do it? Everything beyond these three rules is tips, hings, and suggestions, or "This is what works for me, use it if it words for you."
My strongest desire as a teacher is to help others tap into their own creativity. Designing with color is fun when the patterns are easy and the chocolate is handy. "Becky Unleashed", one of my first students, would tell you this is true.