Thursday, July 28, 2022

Desert Sunset Fabric Prepped

Last year I was poking around my digital files and ran across a photograph of a quilt from some book. Sadly, it didn't have any identification about where it originally came from. All I know is that the original name of the quilt was "Pause." 

Something about it appealed to me so I put it into Electric Quilt. I ended up playing with the fabrics and went with a very different color scheme. I posted it to my feed in Facebook and friends said it reminded them of a desert sunset, so it was given that as a name.

A couple days ago, I decided to play with creating SVG files using ProStitch Studio, so this seemed like a good project to try. It works! I can export the metafile from Electric Quilt and then import into ProStitcher and then save as an SVG. I'm doing the happy dance because I no longer have to confine myself to blocks that are in BlockBase.

Anyway, I worked up my cutting plan and prepped the fabric today. Now that everything is ready, it probably won't take me long to cut them all out. Though, now that I am looking at the fabric laid out, I think those two yellow fabrics are too yellow, they were supposed to be more orange. I think I'll have to replace them with different options. Tomorrow I'll poke around my stash and see if I can find another, better option.




6 comments:

  1. I like the fabrics you chose, but I agree the yellow should be switched to orange. It should be a beautiful quilt when finished.

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    1. I found a couple more options that are not perfect, but they're good enough. I'm ready to get going on this project.

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  2. It really is amazing, the things that we can use EQ for. Yep, that yellow needs to be toned down a little.

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    1. Yes, I'm really glad I've taken more time to learn how to use EQ better. I had it for years before I started watching videos about how to use it. It wasted so much time doing repetitive tasks.

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  3. That's a beautiful quilt design! I really like purple and orange together, but agree with you about the yellow.

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    1. Yeah, it's funny how the scans of fabric never quite match the actual colors of the fabric.

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