Adrienne led the choristers!

At our regular monthly meeting, and what a meeting it was, we not only had outstanding attendance but a very full fun agenda!  Anyone who's been with Adrienne for 10 minutes will soon know she's a Kiwi and some very interesting sayings.  Her personality sang through her presentation on color:  the soloist, the harmony, the background singers and of course the stage.  She attended a class several years ago by a guru quilter on color.  To help quilters understand and simplify fabric choices the choir and soloist analogy was used.  Digging though her own stash and apparently having fun at Stitched Studio she brought in several samples of good choices and some where the voices needed silencing.

Adrienne getting ready to explain color selections

The cute elephants fabric is the soloist with the pinks becoming the harmony. One of the pinks can also become the stage

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Questioning this fabric as a harmonizer.....

Here Adrienne is demonstrating how a stripe cut on the bias makes a great binding.

Another soloist example...

with a  stage and two harmonizers.

The whole choir , stage and soloist

 

The harmonizers don't have to be plain fabrics, notice the gray check.

 After her presentation Adrienne had us all go and find fabric selections using this fun technique.  What a fun night it was! 

While I'm not so keen on hexies, I know many of you are.  If you're not familar with the Moda Bake Shop site here's an opportunity as this link has a table runner you can make as a thank you gift or holiday gift.  Moda Hexie Table Runner

Next blog will show all the great projects our members did in the last month!  Stay tuned to see your work.....