OMG talk about making a person think. Just watched you video. Went outside we are expecting thunder storms this arvo. I took a moment to look around the sky and paddocks. The colours were amazing going from off white a huge varient of Grey's and greens. Took heaps of photos to help with colour choices at a later date. Thankyou.
Thanks, Charlotte! I'm so glad it was thought-provoking for you!❤️ It really is amazing how inspiration can strike when we slow down and take a moment to appreciate all the beauty around us! 🤓
This goes very well with a piece of chocolate cake (even if it is 10pm)... always interested in the lots you have to say. I've enjoyed making my own bundle of harvested shirts, but I'm still deciding on a pattern for them. Next week I will enter a quilt in the county fair for the first time. Thanks for all the inspiration. 😊
Ooohh. Chocolate cake! That sounds good NOW 9and it is 7:30am as I'm typing this!) Thanks, Cheri for your kind words and for watching! ❤️ Good luck on your quilt for the County Fair!! 🤩
Wow, I love the idea of using associations when choosing colors. You seem like such a positive and joyful person. Thank you for sharing your brightness of spirit.
I absolutely ❤ the idea of picturing the colors of a day or a month! What an interesting and fun exercise! I once made a quilt full of different shades of blue, grey, and black…and I have always felt like it looks-color-wise-like the ocean to me
Haha I love your confidence “ your already sorted scrap bins 😂😂😂” I wish. I start sorting then I have to resort because this may be better or this way 🫣. Oh no there’s another sorting to try the colours of the seasons🤔down the rabbit hole again haha I love your videos cause it’s like being with my BF also named Jennifer I can relate immediately keep on saying a lot about it all from Louise in Melbourne 🦋🌼
Amazing isn't it how collections of fabric can evoke a different response in people? Your example of the contrast between yourself and Pauls perception of summer beach v woods made me laugh. And your autumnal University colour left me cold, haha. When you think of textile Artists who create landscapes or collages from scraps they'll consider colour, tints, tones, scale, patterns and textures. As Quilters who create by recycling, I believe we do this every time we select our fabric choices from our stash and every time we opt to buy or not to buy from variety of items for sale in the charity shops/ thrift stores before they ever get near a quilt pattern. A great thought provoking video. Thanks Cathy.
My coffee, it’s 7am. I am in Pennsylvania and your Pennsylvania colors are right on. Blue sky and snow. Love it. Good morning to you and Paul. The group of the last spring looks like plastic Easter eggs to me.
My husband and I visited New England, need I add, in the fall, from England and were amazed at the vibrancy of the colours. You assume the ads. are exagerated, they absolutely are not. Yes to the colours you picked for fall but on one day we went up Bear Notch in the White Mountains and amongst all those intense autumn colours on one tree was the soft lime green in your spring pick so for me that is also now part of autumn.
Linda, we have those same vibrant fall colors in the northern part of the state of Alabama. It is really hard to believe until you see it for yourself! (And we have lush greens in the spring!) But you are SO right---sometimes we'll see one of those trees with soft lime green leaves! It isn't what I think of for autumn, but it absolutely is part of Nature's color palette!
Hi Cathy. Aah, 30 minutes of colourful, interesting, and relaxing viewing. Just what my soul needs today❤️ Thanks so much, and have a great weekend from a cold, and wet UK! It’s a grey, brown, and steely blue day out there!
A really enjoyable episode. So much to think about. I make lots of scrap quilts but have never really stopped to think about my colour choices in so much depth. Thank you for that light bulb moment.
I liked the idea of imagining the colors of the seasons. The dominant colors here are very different, but just as lovely and elicit wonderful memories like you shared.
My Christmas colors are Red and Gold. I've never been fond of pastels, so my Spring colors are vibrant tulip and daffodil colors. Summer colors are very much like yours. We went camping in Italy every summer and spent all day at the beach and when we got back home, there was still time to go to the pool and feast on popsicles. Fall colors for me are vibrant reds, orange, and yellows, muted browns and greens. Then winter in January are grays and clues, but then February turns into bright blue skies and vibrant greens in the fields here in Eastern NC. Yesterday, after coming home from QC, I got a message from a friend who went through her mothers quilt stash with her mom and they gave me a huge garbage bag and 4 big boxes full of fabric and batting scraps. Your video could not have come at a better time. Thank you ☺
I've never really been a fan of pastels, either, although the last few years they are becoming more appealing to me. Maybe I'm finding my soft side? idk. 😂 You will DEFINITELY have lots of quilts you can make with all those scraps---maybe one for every season?!🤩😱
@@TheCatBirdQuilts to be sure. I've never liked green, yellow, pink, and purple. All these colors are now growing on me that I am sewing more. My favorite color has always been blue, like the QC t-shirts. I hardly have any blue fabrics 🤦🏼♀️🤣🤣.
Kathy, I was watching a video this morning from Kate Dillon about Quiltcon and I saw your quilt!!!!! I was so excited to see it!! I'm a subscriber and have watched all of your videos. Funny side note, my name is Kathy and my husband is also Paul. So exciting to see your quilt at Quiltcon!! 😊
@@TheCatBirdQuilts Same here! When we first married, many decades ago, we moved into our first apartment and became best friends with Kathy and Paul next door! 😂
Thank you, Kim! ❤️ This particular version of the disappearing 4 patch is actually a collection of blocks from the patrons and me! We are doing a collective quilt using blue and white shirts as part of a quiltalong on Patreon!
The fall colors are my favorite. I LOVE Fall in Michigan! One year I made sets of silver, blue and white star placemats and the next year made popsicle placemats for my family as gifts at Christmas. I need to do Fall ones soon. Thanks for this video❣️
SCRAPS!!! SCRAPPY! SCRAPS, SCRAPS, SCRAPS!!!!! It’s a beautiful thing! I really enjoyed your take on seasons. Coming from Canada, some were the same and some were VERY different colour ways (based on my own experience).
LOL! I should have known you would love this video, Anne!😂 I thought of you and some of my other international viewers when i was talking about seasons---in Australia, Christmas comes in the warmer months, so it really is such a personal experience thing!❤️
I love this idea about thinking of color and how I would put it in a quilt! This gives me so much to think about when I look at my scrap bin! And a new way of looking at my Scripps! Thank you for your cool ideas!
What a fun way to come up with colours for a scrappy quilt. I would never have thought about the colours of the seasons! I am definitely going to give this a try. 💕 it will be fun to sit down with my husband to see what colours he would pick for each season compared to mine. Love your videos. Thanks for all you do!
Growing up in Alaska my summers were also green and brown as the neighborhood grew every year and construction sites are a fun place to play in the dirt. Our dirt is black to dark brown and the evergreens that are plentiful are black spruce but the birch trees are white and the leaves go from yellow green to brown with no red or orange. Lots of colors in landscaping tho. We have Mt. Ash trees that have dark green leaves and then bright orange-red berries that cedar waxwings birds devour in Oct to Nov. Downtown the city puts hanging flowers on the street lights with vibrant yellow, purple and whiteish colors. Thanks for the quilty color feels. I had a lot to say about that. And the quilt behind you is lovely.
Thank you, Stacy! ❤️ Thank you for sharing the colors of your geography! As for the quilt behind me: it's a collective quilt top that the Brunch patrons and I are working on together---I'm loving how it's coming together!!
Thanks again for another informative video. Love your take on the seasons. Have to laugh summer in the country NSW would be browns - dead grass. Blacks red orange yellow - bushfires. LOL. With green thrown in. Thanks again. Given me a lot to think about. 😊
This was SUCH a lovely video! The stories combined with the fabric color choices made me think in a whole different way about why and how I choose my quilt fabric. Thank you!❤️👍🏻
What a beautiful way to think of colour and organize it. When looking at fabric, I imagine triangles on the colour wheel, but I'm digging the moods of the seasons you conjured up. Thank you for your fresh perspective. BTW, I really love the quilt on your design wall!
Thank you, Diane!❤️ The blocks on my design wall are part of a collective project that my patrons (on Patreon) and I are doing! I think it is going to be beautiful!
Thank you, Elaine! ❤️ Another viewer said something similar---and I have to say a gray/blue/white quilt with a pop of red berry would make a gorgeous quilt!!
Thank you! This video just showed up on my feed and it has me thinking about using the Village quilt pattern and summer (to me) fabrics to create “Beach Houses.” Summer for my family is the South Jersey Shore, so I’m thinking yellow, blue, green (beach glass), tan, white, gray.
So funny Cathy! Our local University here is Syracuse, same colors, navy and orange !! The current 'mascot' (so as to not offend anyone !) is 'Otto, the Orange' !! Cheers !! 😀
Enjoyed tonight’s video, especially the discussion regarding individual motivation and inspiration for quilt color choices. And love the disappearing four patch quilt hanging behind you. Thanks again Cathy❤️
Thank you, Shannon! ❤️ The D4P blocks are really coming together---these are all blocks from my patrons (on Patreon) and me! We are doing a quiltalong (hate that word. I'm calling it "Quilt With Me") and our collective project is those D4P blocks from blue and white men's shirts! It's been really fun.🤩
Blessings to you and your family. Love your idea of using the 4 seasons for inspiration on choosing colors for a quilt project. Had a good chuckle about Paul's color choice for summer, I can relate. I grew up in the woods of Indiana. Happy Stitching!!
Perfect word: stymied. Me, too…me, too. Thanks for your input. (I have a bajillion patterns, too.🙄) Also, green means spring to me. I think it depends on your location as to what colors your seasons stir up in your mind. As far as winter..🥶 it’s blue and white and sparkly snow! I don’t think “holiday” since I don’t celebrate those holidays. My immediate thought is always snow and white clouds…that icy blue. 😊
Thank you, Susan! ❤️ It's good to know I'm not alone in hitting that block on scrap quilting! Spring is also green for me, but my scrap has very little green in it, so I had to work with what is there! lol!
Years ago we did our “color charts” they were seasons and very much like you mentioned. At the time I was amazed how accurate they were but I find in my quilting I tend to gravitate to those same colors. I don’t do well with putting different patterns together but have learned about using the dots on the selvage to help. I have yet to understand and use low high volume and hues. Great video
Thank you, Connie! ❤️ And yes, I had my "colors done"---I'm a winter. 😊 And I, too, gravitate toward "my" colors in quilting, although I do a fair amount of summer too!
As weird as it may seem, my summer quilt would have to include some black. When I was growing up, we had one of those black Weber charcoal grills that my dad did the grilling on. We lost 1 of the legs and replaced it with a wood dowel when I was little. We used that grill for over 25 years. I have lived my entire life in the PNW and our beaches are usually gray and more rocks than sand, so I would be using some gray, darker blue-greens for the water, but bright colors for our beach towels and swimsuits.
Well, you have made a very enjoyable video and also given some great inspiration for working with scraps. I love scrap piecing, but tend to use too many colors. It’s not horrible, but I’ve been thinking I want to try using a more limited palette.
Thank you, Christine! ❤️ I know a lot of people use the "everything but the kitchen sink" scrap method---but I like a more limited color palette. It just feels calmer to me. 😊
Hey! My understanding of “true scrappy” is to spend “no” time thinking about color. You use them all. Find a pattern you like, throw those scraps in a pile, grab a piece and off you go🙂 I watch and love you anyway, even though our way of thinking about quilt color choices differ. I watch because of your humor and in the end..truly love all your finished quilts. There you go, in the end, that finished quilt top is all that matters❤(KH)
Great thoughts. I don't think I could pull a cohesive palette together from scraps since they are too few. But what I loved doing was making a sampler quilt. All blocks individually where quite cohesive. Sashing did the trick to bring them all together in the end. But thinking of seasons or events or basically moods to pull fabrics is a really great suggestion. And: have a ton of fun at QuiltCon!!
Thank you, Julia!❤️ I really need to get busy sorting my scraps and do an actual scrap quilt (soon) but, like you, I'm concerned there are too few of a particular palette to make it work. I think I'm going to take my own advice and just see what I can make work!
Taking a "seasonal scrap view" ...what a great idea! As a fellow color lover I enjoy the thought process you shared today about connecting colors, feelings related to the seasons. P.S. I'm not surprised that your patterns offer limited "scrap" instructions.
I'm definitely a fall person, but the "peachy" spring quilt has my vote from these pulls! Although I thought "frosty" instead of bleak for the grey one. It could be very pretty! Ohhhhh, I said peeps for that other spring pull even before you did. Ew. 😂 That's precisely what they remind me of!
@@TheCatBirdQuilts: A good friend of mine was doing her house work and eating those peeps. Later she thought " Oh My gosh, I think I'm having a heart attack". So she called her daughter and went to the hospital. As it turns out she had eaten 2 packs of "sugar chickens" (PEEPS) and was having a reaction from all the sugar. She passed away but everytime I see them or think of them, her memory is not far away.
Wow! This was great! 🤯 It’s funny how sometimes you get stuck in thinking something is black and white, like fall is only reds, oranges, and yellows, etc., and I realized that one year I thought of fall colors as blue green and mustard yellow and evergreen. Your version of summer (I am a summer girl 😎) with the beach sand and water colors really resonates with me (I’m from southern Rhode Island and I loved going to the beach. Not quite the same here in Indiana 😂). It would be so fun to add the colors of beach huts or umbrellas. Or, just a quilt of colorful beach huts. 😍 A question I’ve been meaning to ask you since your beautiful sewing space transformation is… what made you choose gray cutting mats instead of the green ones like Olfa? I have several Olfa mats but I’ve seen a lot of quilters using the gray mats recently and have been wondering if there was a reason. I recently bought a really big Olfa mat and it stunk so bad that I had to keep it in the garage to air it out for weeks. I am wondering if I should return it and get a gray one instead. A belated congratulations on QuiltCon!!! 💃🏻 Have a great weekend!
Thank you, Rhonda! ❤️ I think a quilt with beach huts or umbrellas would be absolutely delightful! I chose the gray ones because that's what my Joann store had in stock! lol. And then once I had one, I wanted them to match (i know, I can't help it) so I just got more of the same. 🤷🏻♀️
I make predominately scrap quilts. Mostly because I like combining different fabrics in the blocks and get bored using the same fabrics over and over. My quilts are controlled scrappy...blue/tan/white, Civil War-ish colors, batiks with different soft grey backgrounds, etc.
Becky--yes!! I think a lot of quilters have this struggle! Plenty of us buy FQs we love and then don't know how to start a new quilt project with them!
I had to laugh over your fifty patterns. I don’t so much order patterns unless I’m ready to make the quilt. (Assuming it’s not just a traditional block or my own design…). But I save screenshots on my phone of quilt ideas. I have 869 in that album right now!!! 😂😂 I do like the seasonal scrap idea. Just finishing a fall scrappy quilt. 😁
Valerie, the sad thing is, I *usually* don't buy a pattern until I think I'm going to make it either!! 😱😂 I will say, I have a lot of freebie ones that I got when signing up for quilt designer's email list AND sometimes I "audition" several quilt patterns before settling on one, and you can't really know if it's the right one without having the whole pattern to consider. So, there's that. As for your fall scrappy quilt, I bet it's beautiful!
Thanks, Elizabeth! I don't often do a lot of sewing (on my actual channel); I do way more videos like this one (fabric pulls, considering color, patterns, etc), some tutorials, and a little show-and-tells mixed in for good measure! Thanks for watching and commenting!❤️
26:23 Hi! Your fabric pulls and talks about color really stretch me in the area I feel most uncomfortable. THANKS! I would also greatly appreciate a video covering how to then take those fabrics and decide placement within a chosen pattern. Which, for instance, should I use for the background or sashing, or does that always come from outside the selected fabrics? Of course, the pattern may only call for fewer colors than I have chose, so I need to cull certain ones…. I LOVE LISTENING AND LEARNING! Thanks and keep it up!❤
Thanks, DeeAnn! ❤️ I'll need to use some more scraps (in a quilt no less!) to be able to make that video---I guess as I use my scraps, we'll see if I have something to say about THAT!
I love peeps and I love candy corn; okay, so I love sugar. Of course those are Summer colors!!!!! You have to consider guys don't know the difference between mauve, lilac, lavender, purple, and periwinkle, where we all KNOW they're 5 distinctly different colors. Evergreen trees are green all year long! I'm totally agreeing with you on the Summer colors, whether you go with the beach or popsicles.
With hundreds of patterns saved, nearly allll of them can be made with scrap bits. To be seen, patterns need some kind of contrast: Light vs dark, color A vs color B, Shades of brights vs shades of calms. Contrast vs almost none. Every block a different combination..... Dull? throw in a very different spark now and then. Choose the pattern that pleases you and have at it. Shuffle blocks till happy. )) Random crumbs turn out great with completely random bits or the above combinations. Example: blue and green crumbs.... with or without sashing. Contrasting stars at the sash junctions???? Play. Enjoy. )))
Sorry I missed you at QC. Had to leave Saturday 😢. Tried to reply to your msg., but I don't think it went through.😮 App not too friendly. Oh welm, maybe next time.👋👋
Hi from South Africa. I too use men's dress shirts for quilting but I prefer scrappy style because I don't have to think... Just enjoy I came across this video ua-cam.com/users/liveN4CLCEQ_JjQ?si=D6SQATOUHlEzbdWM that I would high recommend, Jelly roll club, she also gives a pdf pattern. This my current quilt 😊 and I'm so excited.
OMG talk about making a person think. Just watched you video. Went outside we are expecting thunder storms this arvo. I took a moment to look around the sky and paddocks. The colours were amazing going from off white a huge varient of Grey's and greens. Took heaps of photos to help with colour choices at a later date. Thankyou.
Thanks, Charlotte! I'm so glad it was thought-provoking for you!❤️ It really is amazing how inspiration can strike when we slow down and take a moment to appreciate all the beauty around us! 🤓
Yes…… appreciating beauty everyday.
I always look forward to "visiting" with you no matter the hour!
It is 7am here in France ❤
I enjoy these videos,too.
Cathy! Hail from a Southern Sister! (AR) I have to say this is one of your most brilliant videos, and you have made a lot brilliant videos! 👏
Oh wow, Judi! Thank you so much---that is high praise! ❤️
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This goes very well with a piece of chocolate cake (even if it is 10pm)... always interested in the lots you have to say. I've enjoyed making my own bundle of harvested shirts, but I'm still deciding on a pattern for them. Next week I will enter a quilt in the county fair for the first time. Thanks for all the inspiration. 😊
Ooohh. Chocolate cake! That sounds good NOW 9and it is 7:30am as I'm typing this!) Thanks, Cheri for your kind words and for watching! ❤️ Good luck on your quilt for the County Fair!! 🤩
Who else now wants chocolate cake?
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How did you do at the Fair ??
Good morning ☕️
It sounds like a four-season quilt is coming! 🤔
It is truly amazing how you can tell a story with just scraps of fabric ❤
Thank you, Lana! ❤️ LOL! I haven't even considered a 4 season quilt, but that would be cool!!
Spring, spring, spring. I’m so ready for spring.
Me too!! Tired of WINTER!
Wow, I love the idea of using associations when choosing colors. You seem like such a positive and joyful person. Thank you for sharing your brightness of spirit.
What a fun way to talk about color ❤ and I love how it kind of breaks the rules of the QP 😂
I absolutely ❤ the idea of picturing the colors of a day or a month! What an interesting and fun exercise! I once made a quilt full of different shades of blue, grey, and black…and I have always felt like it looks-color-wise-like the ocean to me
Interesting that blue, grey and black feels like the ocean to you---but I can see it in my minds eye. Thanks for watching and commenting, Corey!❤️
It was fun watching you pull together scraps for each season. For summer I think of beach colors and patriotic colors as well.
Thanks, Janet! ❤️ It is just hard for me to imagine that there is a different summer experience than beach, 4th of July, and bright happy colors! LOL!
Haha I love your confidence “ your already sorted scrap bins 😂😂😂” I wish. I start sorting then I have to resort because this may be better or this way 🫣. Oh no there’s another sorting to try the colours of the seasons🤔down the rabbit hole again haha I love your videos cause it’s like being with my BF also named Jennifer I can relate immediately keep on saying a lot about it all from Louise in Melbourne 🦋🌼
Loved this video, I’ve become a shirt collector 🙈amongst other fabric collections. Adore the seasonal idea xx
Thank you, Sharon! ❤️
Amazing isn't it how collections of fabric can evoke a different response in people? Your example of the contrast between yourself and Pauls perception of summer beach v woods made me laugh. And your autumnal University colour left me cold, haha.
When you think of textile Artists who create landscapes or collages from scraps they'll consider colour, tints, tones, scale, patterns and textures. As Quilters who create by recycling, I believe we do this every time we select our fabric choices from our stash and every time we opt to buy or not to buy from variety of items for sale in the charity shops/ thrift stores before they ever get near a quilt pattern.
A great thought provoking video. Thanks Cathy.
Thank you so much, Maggie! ❤️
My coffee, it’s 7am. I am in Pennsylvania and your Pennsylvania colors are right on. Blue sky and snow. Love it. Good morning to you and Paul. The group of the last spring looks like plastic Easter eggs to me.
Good morning (a day later)! They DO look like plastic Easter eggs! I've gotta say, Linda, I miss those snowy, blue sky PA days! ❄️🌨
@@TheCatBirdQuilts good morning. It’s 7am again. Have a great day. I do not quilt, but I enjoy your videos very very much. Keep the shirts going.
My husband and I visited New England, need I add, in the fall, from England and were amazed at the vibrancy of the colours. You assume the ads. are exagerated, they absolutely are not. Yes to the colours you picked for fall but on one day we went up Bear Notch in the White Mountains and amongst all those intense autumn colours on one tree was the soft lime green in your spring pick so for me that is also now part of autumn.
Linda, we have those same vibrant fall colors in the northern part of the state of Alabama. It is really hard to believe until you see it for yourself! (And we have lush greens in the spring!) But you are SO right---sometimes we'll see one of those trees with soft lime green leaves! It isn't what I think of for autumn, but it absolutely is part of Nature's color palette!
Hi Cathy. Aah, 30 minutes of colourful, interesting, and relaxing viewing. Just what my soul needs today❤️
Thanks so much, and have a great weekend from a cold, and wet UK!
It’s a grey, brown, and steely blue day out there!
Thank you, Tinkerbell!! ❤️ I think I needed those colors too! Hope you had a great weekend despite the grey, brown, steely blue day in UK!
Thanks ! What an interesting way to think of combining colors.💛🧡💚
Thank you, Florence! ❤️
It's nice to hear an Eeyore quote. My favorite is, "Thanks for noticing me."
Lol, Janis, yes! That one is priceless!
A really enjoyable episode. So much to think about. I make lots of scrap quilts but have never really stopped to think about my colour choices in so much depth. Thank you for that light bulb moment.
Thank you, Patricia!❤️
You two do such an amazing job on your videos! Congratulations!
Thank you, Sylvie! ❤️
Thank you for sharing! I told you in person today but I’m just adding it here too! Such a joy to meet you!!!
I liked the idea of imagining the colors of the seasons. The dominant colors here are very different, but just as lovely and elicit wonderful memories like you shared.
Thank you, Geralyn! ❤️ I think that's what makes that "experiment" so wonderful and effective---it's deeply personal.🤓
My Christmas colors are Red and Gold. I've never been fond of pastels, so my Spring colors are vibrant tulip and daffodil colors. Summer colors are very much like yours. We went camping in Italy every summer and spent all day at the beach and when we got back home, there was still time to go to the pool and feast on popsicles. Fall colors for me are vibrant reds, orange, and yellows, muted browns and greens. Then winter in January are grays and clues, but then February turns into bright blue skies and vibrant greens in the fields here in Eastern NC.
Yesterday, after coming home from QC, I got a message from a friend who went through her mothers quilt stash with her mom and they gave me a huge garbage bag and 4 big boxes full of fabric and batting scraps. Your video could not have come at a better time. Thank you ☺
I've never really been a fan of pastels, either, although the last few years they are becoming more appealing to me. Maybe I'm finding my soft side? idk. 😂 You will DEFINITELY have lots of quilts you can make with all those scraps---maybe one for every season?!🤩😱
@@TheCatBirdQuilts to be sure. I've never liked green, yellow, pink, and purple. All these colors are now growing on me that I am sewing more. My favorite color has always been blue, like the QC t-shirts. I hardly have any blue fabrics 🤦🏼♀️🤣🤣.
Kathy, I was watching a video this morning from Kate Dillon about Quiltcon and I saw your quilt!!!!! I was so excited to see it!! I'm a subscriber and have watched all of your videos. Funny side note, my name is Kathy and my husband is also Paul. So exciting to see your quilt at Quiltcon!! 😊
You're the 2nd "Kathy and Paul" combo we know! (well, 3 including us, lol) How cool that Kate showed my quilt!! 😍
@@TheCatBirdQuilts Same here! When we first married, many decades ago, we moved into our first apartment and became best friends with Kathy and Paul next door! 😂
Wow! Would have never thought of colors in this way. Thanks for expanding my brain.
Pink lemonade would make a great pink/yellow quilt inspiration!
Ooooh! I would! 💕🍋
Love love love the quilt behind you, came out so well!
Thank you, Kim! ❤️ This particular version of the disappearing 4 patch is actually a collection of blocks from the patrons and me! We are doing a collective quilt using blue and white shirts as part of a quiltalong on Patreon!
The fall colors are my favorite. I LOVE Fall in Michigan! One year I made sets of silver, blue and white star placemats and the next year made popsicle placemats for my family as gifts at Christmas. I need to do Fall ones soon. Thanks for this video❣️
SCRAPS!!! SCRAPPY! SCRAPS, SCRAPS, SCRAPS!!!!! It’s a beautiful thing! I really enjoyed your take on seasons. Coming from Canada, some were the same and some were VERY different colour ways (based on my own experience).
LOL! I should have known you would love this video, Anne!😂 I thought of you and some of my other international viewers when i was talking about seasons---in Australia, Christmas comes in the warmer months, so it really is such a personal experience thing!❤️
I love this idea about thinking of color and how I would put it in a quilt! This gives me so much to think about when I look at my scrap bin! And a new way of looking at my Scripps! Thank you for your cool ideas!
Thank you so much, Deborah! ❤️
What a fun way to come up with colours for a scrappy quilt. I would never have thought about the colours of the seasons! I am definitely going to give this a try. 💕 it will be fun to sit down with my husband to see what colours he would pick for each season compared to mine. Love your videos. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you, Cassie! ❤️ I hope there is a big difference between you and your husband's colors---it makes for an interesting discussion! 😘
What a fantastic way to get started for a project! I love the thought and explanation. Thanks for another great video❤❤
Thank you, Jenny! ❤️
Even tho I’m away from home this is Friday morning must see! Can’t wait to see this cause scrappy is happy.
Growing up in Alaska my summers were also green and brown as the neighborhood grew every year and construction sites are a fun place to play in the dirt. Our dirt is black to dark brown and the evergreens that are plentiful are black spruce but the birch trees are white and the leaves go from yellow green to brown with no red or orange. Lots of colors in landscaping tho. We have Mt. Ash trees that have dark green leaves and then bright orange-red berries that cedar waxwings birds devour in Oct to Nov. Downtown the city puts hanging flowers on the street lights with vibrant yellow, purple and whiteish colors. Thanks for the quilty color feels. I had a lot to say about that. And the quilt behind you is lovely.
Thank you, Stacy! ❤️ Thank you for sharing the colors of your geography! As for the quilt behind me: it's a collective quilt top that the Brunch patrons and I are working on together---I'm loving how it's coming together!!
Thanks again for another informative video. Love your take on the seasons. Have to laugh summer in the country NSW would be browns - dead grass. Blacks red orange yellow - bushfires. LOL. With green thrown in. Thanks again. Given me a lot to think about. 😊
❤ love you thinking deeply and sharing your ideas.
Thank you, Randyll!❤️
This was SUCH a lovely video! The stories combined with the fabric color choices made me think in a whole different way about why and how I choose my quilt fabric. Thank you!❤️👍🏻
Aww, thanks, Sharon! ❤️
Great idea! Very different thought about way to put colors together, love it
Thanks, Audrey!❤️
Had to stop by and say that I saw your quilt at Quilt Con on Kate Dillon’s channel. It looked so cool on display!
I went right over and watched that one, too! She lingered there, BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO AMAZING
Thanks for the heads up, Sandra! ❤️
What a beautiful way to think of colour and organize it. When looking at fabric, I imagine triangles on the colour wheel, but I'm digging the moods of the seasons you conjured up. Thank you for your fresh perspective. BTW, I really love the quilt on your design wall!
Thank you, Diane!❤️ The blocks on my design wall are part of a collective project that my patrons (on Patreon) and I are doing! I think it is going to be beautiful!
The bleak midwinter would have to have a pop of red berries for me. I love the thought process for evoking personal seasonal colours. Thanks.
Thank you, Elaine! ❤️ Another viewer said something similar---and I have to say a gray/blue/white quilt with a pop of red berry would make a gorgeous quilt!!
Thank you! This video just showed up on my feed and it has me thinking about using the Village quilt pattern and summer (to me) fabrics to create “Beach Houses.” Summer for my family is the South Jersey Shore, so I’m thinking yellow, blue, green (beach glass), tan, white, gray.
You're welcome! And thank you, Regina, for watching and commenting! ❤️ PS I love that idea of using the village quilt pattern to make beach houses!!
So funny Cathy! Our local University here is Syracuse, same colors, navy and orange !! The current 'mascot' (so as to not offend anyone !) is 'Otto, the Orange' !! Cheers !! 😀
I'm sure lots of people thought, "that's not Fall!" but it is to those of us with navy/orange university colors!! 💙🧡
A great idea for quilt inspiration! Thanks Kathy
Thanks, Amanda!❤️
Enjoyed tonight’s video, especially the discussion regarding individual motivation and inspiration for quilt color choices.
And love the disappearing four patch quilt hanging behind you. Thanks again Cathy❤️
Thank you, Shannon! ❤️ The D4P blocks are really coming together---these are all blocks from my patrons (on Patreon) and me! We are doing a quiltalong (hate that word. I'm calling it "Quilt With Me") and our collective project is those D4P blocks from blue and white men's shirts! It's been really fun.🤩
ROY G BIV….that’s how I remember the color order….red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
Blessings to you and your family. Love your idea of using the 4 seasons for inspiration on choosing colors for a quilt project. Had a good chuckle about Paul's color choice for summer, I can relate. I grew up in the woods of Indiana. Happy Stitching!!
Thanks, LeeAnn!❤️ I bet "woods of Indiana" and "woods of Alabama" are much the same! 😊
Perfect word: stymied. Me, too…me, too. Thanks for your input. (I have a bajillion patterns, too.🙄)
Also, green means spring to me. I think it depends on your location as to what colors your seasons stir up in your mind.
As far as winter..🥶 it’s blue and white and sparkly snow! I don’t think “holiday” since I don’t celebrate those holidays. My immediate thought is always snow and white clouds…that icy blue. 😊
Thank you, Susan! ❤️ It's good to know I'm not alone in hitting that block on scrap quilting! Spring is also green for me, but my scrap has very little green in it, so I had to work with what is there! lol!
Years ago we did our “color charts” they were seasons and very much like you mentioned. At the time I was amazed how accurate they were but I find in my quilting I tend to gravitate to those same colors. I don’t do well with putting different patterns together but have learned about using the dots on the selvage to help. I have yet to understand and use low high volume and hues. Great video
Thank you, Connie! ❤️ And yes, I had my "colors done"---I'm a winter. 😊 And I, too, gravitate toward "my" colors in quilting, although I do a fair amount of summer too!
As weird as it may seem, my summer quilt would have to include some black. When I was growing up, we had one of those black Weber charcoal grills that my dad did the grilling on. We lost 1 of the legs and replaced it with a wood dowel when I was little. We used that grill for over 25 years. I have lived my entire life in the PNW and our beaches are usually gray and more rocks than sand, so I would be using some gray, darker blue-greens for the water, but bright colors for our beach towels and swimsuits.
Well, you have made a very enjoyable video and also given some great inspiration for working with scraps. I love scrap piecing, but tend to use too many colors. It’s not horrible, but I’ve been thinking I want to try using a more limited palette.
Thank you, Christine! ❤️ I know a lot of people use the "everything but the kitchen sink" scrap method---but I like a more limited color palette. It just feels calmer to me. 😊
I made a scrappy fall themed jelly roll race quilt! Turned out beautiful ❤️
Your winter colors are what I see here in Maine with the grays, blues and I'd also add a very small amount of red for the cardinels.
Oh Liz, that would be a BEAUTIFUL quilt. Gray/blue/white with a small pop of red? Yes. Please.❤️
Thank you. for opening up visual possibilities.
I was hoping you’d share which scrap friendly patterns you like!
Hey! My understanding of “true scrappy” is to spend “no” time thinking about color. You use them all. Find a pattern you like, throw those scraps in a pile, grab a piece and off you go🙂 I watch and love you anyway, even though our way of thinking about quilt color choices differ. I watch because of your humor and in the end..truly love all your finished quilts. There you go, in the end, that finished quilt top is all that matters❤(KH)
Having lived in Centre, AL for ten years, I got a big chuckle out of your AL football teams comment. I preferred Auburn😄
Great thoughts. I don't think I could pull a cohesive palette together from scraps since they are too few. But what I loved doing was making a sampler quilt. All blocks individually where quite cohesive. Sashing did the trick to bring them all together in the end.
But thinking of seasons or events or basically moods to pull fabrics is a really great suggestion.
And: have a ton of fun at QuiltCon!!
Thank you, Julia!❤️ I really need to get busy sorting my scraps and do an actual scrap quilt (soon) but, like you, I'm concerned there are too few of a particular palette to make it work. I think I'm going to take my own advice and just see what I can make work!
Taking a "seasonal scrap view" ...what a great idea! As a fellow color lover I enjoy the thought process you shared today about connecting colors, feelings related to the seasons. P.S. I'm not surprised that your patterns offer limited "scrap" instructions.
Thanks, Giselle!! ❤️ And I know, right?! I'm the weirdest combination of scrappy/not scrappy at all!
I always laugh when these are launching at 2qm thinking I won't be up at that time, and sometimes I am. Lol.
lol! And you aren’t the only one!
I’m west coast, so 10 pm is not an issue. Central & Eastern time zone people are a tad crazy? Or just lots of fun?
Such a fun and interesting video! Thank you!
I'm definitely a fall person, but the "peachy" spring quilt has my vote from these pulls! Although I thought "frosty" instead of bleak for the grey one. It could be very pretty!
Ohhhhh, I said peeps for that other spring pull even before you did. Ew. 😂 That's precisely what they remind me of!
I agree--both the peachy spring and the "frosty" (yes, a better word) winter could be really lovely! And yes, PEEEEEPPPPS! lol.
@@TheCatBirdQuilts: A good friend of mine was doing her house work and eating those peeps. Later she thought " Oh My gosh, I think I'm having a heart attack". So she called her daughter and went to the hospital. As it turns out she had eaten 2 packs of "sugar chickens" (PEEPS) and was having a reaction from all the sugar. She passed away but everytime I see them or think of them, her memory is not far away.
thankyou.special ideas
Thanks, Zog!
Wow! This was great! 🤯 It’s funny how sometimes you get stuck in thinking something is black and white, like fall is only reds, oranges, and yellows, etc., and I realized that one year I thought of fall colors as blue green and mustard yellow and evergreen. Your version of summer (I am a summer girl 😎) with the beach sand and water colors really resonates with me (I’m from southern Rhode Island and I loved going to the beach. Not quite the same here in Indiana 😂). It would be so fun to add the colors of beach huts or umbrellas. Or, just a quilt of colorful beach huts. 😍 A question I’ve been meaning to ask you since your beautiful sewing space transformation is… what made you choose gray cutting mats instead of the green ones like Olfa? I have several Olfa mats but I’ve seen a lot of quilters using the gray mats recently and have been wondering if there was a reason. I recently bought a really big Olfa mat and it stunk so bad that I had to keep it in the garage to air it out for weeks. I am wondering if I should return it and get a gray one instead. A belated congratulations on QuiltCon!!! 💃🏻 Have a great weekend!
Thank you, Rhonda! ❤️ I think a quilt with beach huts or umbrellas would be absolutely delightful! I chose the gray ones because that's what my Joann store had in stock! lol. And then once I had one, I wanted them to match (i know, I can't help it) so I just got more of the same. 🤷🏻♀️
You nailed it!!! I love the spring and summer (mine summer would be more like yours).
Thank you, Christina! ❤️
War Eagle! From a Yankee who has Auburn family. Go Blue!
WDE!!
Your thoughts and info are very inspiring! Thank you 😊
Thank you, Rene! ❤️
Is this the Rene that I met at QuiltCon? With the EPP project?
@@TheCatBirdQuilts No mam
I make predominately scrap quilts. Mostly because I like combining different fabrics in the blocks and get bored using the same fabrics over and over. My quilts are controlled scrappy...blue/tan/white, Civil War-ish colors, batiks with different soft grey backgrounds, etc.
i absolutely need this video. i don't use shirts. but FQ or scraps and bingo i have the same blockage!
Becky--yes!! I think a lot of quilters have this struggle! Plenty of us buy FQs we love and then don't know how to start a new quilt project with them!
Jeannie Robertson (humorist) also went to Auburn University 🌹
Also for spring there are the crocuses (purple) 😉
I always tease her that those are Florida Gator colors !!
I had to laugh over your fifty patterns. I don’t so much order patterns unless I’m ready to make the quilt. (Assuming it’s not just a traditional block or my own design…). But I save screenshots on my phone of quilt ideas. I have 869 in that album right now!!! 😂😂
I do like the seasonal scrap idea. Just finishing a fall scrappy quilt. 😁
Valerie, the sad thing is, I *usually* don't buy a pattern until I think I'm going to make it either!! 😱😂 I will say, I have a lot of freebie ones that I got when signing up for quilt designer's email list AND sometimes I "audition" several quilt patterns before settling on one, and you can't really know if it's the right one without having the whole pattern to consider. So, there's that.
As for your fall scrappy quilt, I bet it's beautiful!
Not a lot of sewing 😅 but a lot of good sense and insights. Thanks for sharing ❤👍from Somerset UK
Thanks, Elizabeth! I don't often do a lot of sewing (on my actual channel); I do way more videos like this one (fabric pulls, considering color, patterns, etc), some tutorials, and a little show-and-tells mixed in for good measure! Thanks for watching and commenting!❤️
I said “In the bleak midwinter” before you did. You speak Jennifer! (Or I speak Catbird…) ❤
Green and brown would be the END of summer whe everything is burned up from the heat. 😂😂😂
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Sitting in my kitchen at 6am and looking out the indie looking at the daffodils starting to bloom.
Love the way you pull the fabrics together
Aww, thank you, Sally-Anne!❤️
26:23 Hi! Your fabric pulls and talks about color really stretch me in the area I feel most uncomfortable. THANKS! I would also greatly appreciate a video covering how to then take those fabrics and decide placement within a chosen pattern. Which, for instance, should I use for the background or sashing, or does that always come from outside the selected fabrics? Of course, the pattern may only call for fewer colors than I have chose, so I need to cull certain ones…. I LOVE LISTENING AND LEARNING! Thanks and keep it up!❤
Thanks, DeeAnn! ❤️ I'll need to use some more scraps (in a quilt no less!) to be able to make that video---I guess as I use my scraps, we'll see if I have something to say about THAT!
I believe Circus Peanuts, those sickly orange things, give candy corn, arguably horrible, a stiff competition for the title worst candy.
How about the hard valentine candies with messages on them? yuk. let's just get off sugar!
It’s at least in contention. Lol😂
@@TheToneWork excellent pun, sir
The circus peanuts are worse that peeps, candy corn, and valentine's candies COMBINED in my opinion. Truly disgusting.
I had the exact same thought about circus peanuts during this video!! So gross.
I love peeps and I love candy corn; okay, so I love sugar. Of course those are Summer colors!!!!! You have to consider guys don't know the difference between mauve, lilac, lavender, purple, and periwinkle, where we all KNOW they're 5 distinctly different colors. Evergreen trees are green all year long! I'm totally agreeing with you on the Summer colors, whether you go with the beach or popsicles.
Jane, I lol'd at your sugar-loving comment! 😂 But I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks those are the Summer colors! ❤️
With hundreds of patterns saved, nearly allll of them can be made with scrap bits. To be seen, patterns need some kind of contrast: Light vs dark, color A vs color B, Shades of brights vs shades of calms. Contrast vs almost none. Every block a different combination..... Dull? throw in a very different spark now and then. Choose the pattern that pleases you and have at it. Shuffle blocks till happy. )) Random crumbs turn out great with completely random bits or the above combinations. Example: blue and green crumbs.... with or without sashing. Contrasting stars at the sash junctions???? Play. Enjoy. )))
I love peeps!
I'm not surprised! 😂
Cathy, what is the pattern of the quilt behind you? I too went to Auburn but now divide time btwn WA & NY.
War Eagle! It is a disappearing 4 patch that I'm doing together with my patrons as a collective project! ❤️
Love your videos...lol
Thank you, Teresa! ❤️
Many people think red, white and blue for summer due to the 4th of July being a big event in summer.
I had intended to include a red, white and blue set of scraps, but got carried away once I realized Paul's summer is green and brown! (?!) LOL
Sorry I missed you at QC. Had to leave Saturday 😢. Tried to reply to your msg., but I don't think it went through.😮 App not too friendly. Oh welm, maybe next time.👋👋
Monica, I'm so sorry I missed you! And yes, the app was...well, it didn't do exactly what we needed, did it? But yes! Maybe next time! ❤️
War Eagle!
WDE!
Careful now, don’t oversell Alabama 😂 I like my elbow room 😂
LOL! Right?!❤️
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War Eagle 🦅 💙💛
War Eagle!
I need this girlfriend!!! ❤🙏🐦
Aww, thanks, Neva!!
Hi from South Africa. I too use men's dress shirts for quilting but I prefer scrappy style because I don't have to think... Just enjoy
I came across this video ua-cam.com/users/liveN4CLCEQ_JjQ?si=D6SQATOUHlEzbdWM that I would high recommend, Jelly roll club, she also gives a pdf pattern. This my current quilt 😊 and I'm so excited.
Hi Lee! Thanks for sharing---that quilt looks like it will be so much fun! 😊
50 patterns? That's nothin! And, in general I don't need a pattern.
You hate PEEPS??!! I have to unfollow. 😢
Kidding
LOL! I used to love them---but they are just TOO sugary sweet for me now! My sweet tooth obviously fell out when I got into my 50's!