Getting Ready for QuiltCon

I'm all about color. It energizes me. Gives me a positive attitude. Scheduled for a tough meeting at work one day? I'll be there in fuchsia or electric blue. Wear black on a Monday? Oh no, not me. No way to start the week. I'll be in something bright and peppy. My mood is influenced by the color around me. I share this psychological babble because I'm excited that color will be in the forefront of the classes with Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr at QuiltCon.

 QuiltCon is right around the corner. And this year I'm excited to be registered in a couple classes. One is with Weeks Ringle, and the other with her husband, Bill Kerr. They do fabulous work and were some of the first "modern quilters".

For Bill's class I need to take small pieces of fabric from my stash. Same for Weeks' class, but the class description mentions along with fabric scraps, we can bring a project. So I figure if I am going to have some one on one time with Weeks, why not have a project.

At the Columbus Modern Quilters meeting last week, one of the women had a quilt she had worked on that was really quite interesting. And even better; she explained how to make it and it's a pretty simple concept. Win win!

So I went to my stash chanting ROYGBIV...you know...red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. I thought I'd try to put my squares together based on the color wheel.

Here's my Green selection before it was pressed:

Next I trimmed it into a square and then cut corner to corner:

Now just a little switcheroo of a couple of the triangles and Voila! A very cool block:

Here are a few of the squares on my design wall. I threw in the black and white because I just love the feel it gives with the other intense colors, don't you?

Hope the color speaks to you too. Now go to your stash and design something energizing!