December Color Challenge

What’s the best smell that makes your stomach growl?

For me, it’s when I sauté garlic in butter. Add in some onion and peppers and I am a drooling fool!!!

This month’s Color Challenge is based on that wonderful spice, Garlic. The color is Cream.

I only used one cut of fabric to create this block. It is Ombre Confetti Sand by Vanessa Christenson for Moda Fabrics.

I’ve been playing with ombre fabric a bit recently. I’m loving the versatility of one fabric being able to provide so much color and depth to a quilt.

You can cut various sections of the fabric to get various distinct values. I plan on using this in my new Diamondsionality pattern. Two different ombre colors and a contrasting color to define them.

Check out the mock up I did in Illustrator. It would be a cute crib quilt.

I used Fairy Dust Mint and Fairy Dust Coral and Moda Bella Solid Royal in this digital mock up and created a 5 x 5 grid for a 45″ x 45″ version of Diamondsionality.

But most recently you may have seen my use of ombre fabrics in my Big Apple Pattern. There are even cutting instructions on how to achieve the depth of the apple included.

When choosing an ombre fabric, check to see if it changes from selvedge to halfway and then back again like the Vanessa Chrstenson ombres, or does it continue all the way through like Jennifer Sampou’s Sky Line. I used those for a wonderful still life affect on this quilt based on the Big Apple pattern. Each apple is cut from one ombre fabric. You can almost pluck them right off the quilt to eat them!