Color Flow

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry's newest collection, Color Flow, is lush with vibrant hues! These textured prints have so much depth, and they work beautifully together or as coordinates for your favorite prints. We asked Caryl to tell us more about her Color Flow collection. Keep reading!

How did you come up with the design of this fabric?

All of my designs are based on fabric that I hand painted with dye. The wet fabric was scrunched, which lets the colors flow together to form organic patterns.

What do you like best about the fabric?

I like the effect of dappled light in this fabric. It will be fun to work it into landscapes and floral designs.

Do you design fabrics like these to use in your own style of quilting?

I use gradations of color and value in all of my work. This collection includes a full spectrum (color wheel) of hues as well as light to dark neutrals. I can wait to start working with these in my newest quilts.

Can you tell us about choosing the colors?

The colors form a full color wheel that graduates from light to dark as well as color to color. You can use them all together to add the “ooh wow“ factor to any quilt, whether traditional or contemporary. The neutrals, used together form a light-to-dark gradation.

What’s your favorite color in the collection?

I love all of them… can’t pick a favorite.

Melanie Greseth and Joanie Holton of Tailormade by Design used Caryl's fabrics to design the Color Sweep quilt--a log cabin variation that plays with the different values in the line. 

Click here to download the free quilt pattern.

Click here to see the entire Color Flow collection.
Click here to find the free quilt pattern.

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Next week we'll be featuring Nancy Halvorsen's new collection, Bree. Get ready for next week by entering Nancy's giveaway for a fat quarter bundle of Bree and a copy of her new book, Imagine. Find the giveaway on Facebook and on Instagram. 

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Turning Cartwheels

What quilter doesn't love a pattern that looks harder than it is? 

Cartwheels, designed by Stephanie Sheridan for McCall's Quick Quilts magazine, is just that. Stephanie combined Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry's beautiful New Wave prints with solid blacks using half-square triangle blocks. The rest is just placement! (and great quilting!)

"Cartwheels" by Stephanie Sheridan and machine quilted by Linda Leathersich;
featured in McCall's Quick Quilts August/September 2016

We asked Stephanie to tell us about her design: 

What attracted you to the New Wave fabrics? Why do they work well for this quilt?

I have always been a fan of Caryl's work - the fabrics that she designs just have so much texture and movement in them. The New Wave line works well for this quilt because of that texture and movement, as well as the way her colors all blend so nicely, and the perfect amount of lights and darks.

Why did you choose to pair them with black?

I actually tried several different background colors (white, gray and light blue) before deciding on the black - it just really makes the colors pop and sparkle.

Can you talk about the palette you did choose? 

I am a sucker for the cool tones - show me blue, purple and turquoise fabrics and I fall in love! Using the different values gave the quilt more depth and helped to emphasize the spinning movement in the quilt. 

How did you come up with the design?

I really enjoy designing quilts that look difficult, but are actually very simple to make. This quilt is all half square triangle blocks - so while it takes a while to make all 120 of them - it is actually pretty easy! The fun part for me was the layout - having the starting point of the pinwheels off center give the quilt even more movement and interest.

Where did the name, Cartwheels, come from?

The spinning illusion in the quilt makes me think of little girls turning cartwheels on blacktop.

Talk about the machine quilting.

Mom (Linda) used a modern spiky feather on the black, and a combination of curves and spikes in the colors - it really added to the movement in this quilt.

What do you envision this being used for? 

It is a slightly wide twin sized quilt (72" x 86") - I can see it in a teenage girl's bedroom or as a college dorm quilt! The quilt is now in our guest room - it goes really well with the Tiffany blue walls and black wrought iron furniture.

Click here to see Caryl's New Wave collection.

Click here to learn more about Stephanie and Linda's work.

Click here to find McCall's Quick Quilts magazine.

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March Madness: Round 1, Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of our quilt-themed March Madness bracket!

Here are our first two games:
Voting on these games is now closed. Click here to go to the Day 2 voting.

Game 1:

Star Dust by  Wendy Sheppard using Brittany

vs.

Candy Crayons by Wendy Sheppard using Mix & Match

AND

Game 2:

Garden Stars by Jackie Robinson using Fancy Free

vs. 

Tetris Effect by Stitched Together Studios using New Wave

Leave a comment below with your votes for these two games (choose Star Dust or Candy Crayons for Game 1 AND Garden Stars or Tetris Effect for Game 2). One comment per person, please. You can also vote a second time on our Facebook Group – Sew Interesting and a third time on our Pinterest board. 

Voting for these two games is open through Tuesday, March 15 at 10 am EST.

To see the full bracket of sixteen and/or read the details of March Madness, click here.

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Curves, swirls and waves

There are tonal prints, and then there are tonal prints. The depth and texture of Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry's New Wave collection sets it apart! Curves, swirls, and waves in 18 different colors--delicious! 

These two free quilt patterns, available on our website, show how the textured New Wave prints enhance a quilt design, taking it from "neat" to "wow"!

"Iridescent Wave" by Julie Lynch

Click here to download the free quilt pattern.

"Tetris Effect" by Stephanie Sheridan and Linda Leathersich of Stitched Together Studios

Click here to download the free quilt pattern.

Click here to see the entire New Wave collection.

Click here to find the free quilt patterns to download.

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