What Shade Are You? Winner Announced!

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Today is my turn for the RJR What Shade Are You blog hop! I love participating in blogs hops, it gives me a chance to create something just for me, and have a little fun with all of my wonderful followers (Hint: FABRIC!) This is my second appearance in the blog hop. My first was back in 2015 with my Lanterns quilt Tutorial. It felt like only yesterday, and the ways my life has changed in such a short time, from there to here, is truly amazing. From a new house, to a new baby, to new opportunities within the quilting world, the last 2 years have been busy and scary and WONDERFUL.

RJR makes Cotton Supreme Solids. They are a dream to sew with. The fabric is the perfect weight to mix with anything, and you have 197 rich, delicious hues to choose from.

Now let me introduce my newest creation, Heat Wave!

I LOVE everything about this quilt. The colors, the layout, the quilting, everything. I’m sure somewhere there is a grouchy quilt police officer wagging a finger and chanting “Stacey, you are being prideful. You can’t just TELL PEOPLE you LOVE your own work.” But you know what? The hashtag for RJR is #quiltwithlove . So I just threw this quilt over their head, because I LOVE IT! I want to shout that love from the rooftops!

I picked an analogous gradient of my favorite warm colors and went to town. Each color is a color I love individually, and together they make a perfect sunset inspired palette.

Heat Wave is the perfect example of how a small change can make a huge difference. I had mocked up a different layout for these blocks, something eclectic and busy and kinda neat, but in my near-coma-like sleep deprived state I sewed half the blocks as a mirror image of the first. And I didn’t notice until I started laying the blocks out. After a little head scratching (because I STILL hadn’t noticed what I’d done) I turned the blocks around and VOILA!  Heat Wave was born! I still had to take a picture so I could purposefully do what I just did accidentally (and then FINALLY realized what had happened), but the top came together quickly after that and it couldn’t have turned out better.

The next step was quilting, and I had Heat Wave hanging over the bars of Penny(my Tin Lizzie Apprentice) for almost a week while I pondered. Then I realized it was Wednesday (again, I blame the sleep deprivation). Now I know some blogs are really good at showcasing just a top. Me, not so much. So she needed to be quilted, and quilted now. The funny thing is once I had her loaded on the frame, the quilting just fell into place. I recently returned from a family vacation, where I was able to meet up with a quilting friend. She once told me an anecdote from a famous longarm quilter (don’t ask who, I really can’t remember) and it always stuck with me. The moral of the story is when it comes to thread choice, always take the risk. So I did. I matched the yellow and violet fabrics in my quilt, and then used each color exclusively with the motif. Violet with the straight lines and yellow with the curled meander. The contrasting thread and patterns really worked well to highlight the secondary patterns in the quilt, and reigned in the pre-quilted color chaos.

To top off the perfection of this quilt, I chose to face it instead of binding to keep the colors flowing. Paired with the first really nice sunny day we’ve had in weeks, it felt like magic taking her outside to photograph. Even H wanted his turn with the camera! (We now have a lovely montage of grass growing.)

Now for the fun part (and the reward for reading to the end)! One lucky follower gets to win a bundle of the gorgeous Sunset Palette I curated for my quilt.

To enter, follow me here or on Instagram @staceyinstitches, and leave a single comment telling me 2 things: Where you follow me, and what your favorite color is! Easy peasy! I will draw a winner at 4pm PST Tuesday.

 

Congratulations to number 82, Deborah! I will be in touch soon!

There is also a second giveaway on the RJR Instagram Account. Log on and follow RJR Fabrics instructions to enter.

Happy Stitching!

125 thoughts on “What Shade Are You? Winner Announced!”

  1. What a fantastic color scheme for a Heatwave!
    I follow your blog by email.
    My favorite color is turquoise!

  2. I follow you by email and on IG. My favorite colour is turquoise. Your quilt glows!!! with loveliness.

  5. I follow by email. Love your quilt! Everything about it! Fabulous! And I love your colours. My favourite is always red.

  6. It’s stunning, Stacey! My favourite colour is aqua, but you’re changing my mind about warm colours. I follow you on instagram.

  7. Stacey, Heatwave is absolutely stunning! I love how the colors enhance each other and just GLOW with vitality! The flow of the alternating quilting gives good movement without frenetic energy. I fully agree with the facing. I’ve done that recently on a few table runners and chair backs, and am quite happy with the durability of a stitched-down facing. Depending on time and fabric selections this pattern could play well with so many FMQ possibilities. One can never have too many ideas for the project queue! I enjoy reading your blog via email. Although I love almost all saturated colors, I have yet to make a quilt without some “flavor” of blue. Thanks for the inspiration, keep up the good work, and try to find time every day for a short nap!

  9. I follow you everywhere — at least, I do now, I thought I already was on Instagram! My favourite colour is red, but really, I love all colours and shades that aren’t wimpy! And of cours you should love your quilt! It’s gorgeous!

  10. I follow you by email and also on Instagram. I love any rich, bright colour but am leaning towards turquoise followed by a lovely bright fuschia (am loving the flowering rhododendrums that are everywhere).

  13. I follow you by email. One of the things that is particularly cool about this quilt is the secondary patterns that are setup by the colour change. My favourite colour right now is coral!

  16. I don’t know if I’m double commenting–but I saw your post on the RJR blog and I LOVE your quilt! I haven’t been able to find a pattern or tutorial–are you going to have one? You should shout from the housetops how much you love it–it’s amazing!! I follow you here on your blog–through e-mail. As for my favorite color I haven’t met a color I didn’t like. Thanks for sharing your incredible quilt!

  17. Hiya Stacey!
    I get your fun blog posts in my email inbox and my fave colour is: mint!
    Thanks & Quilty Huggs!

  19. I follow you on Instagram and on facebook. My favorite color is a peachy shade of orange… usually paired with blue.

  22. Oh I forgot to add my favorite color!! I lave anything bright, but blue is my favorite color!

  23. This quilt is delicious!! I’m glad you’re in love with it! So am I! ❤
    I love a good cool grey to quilt with or stark white…. but my favourite colour is gold.
    I follow you on Insta and by email 🙂

  25. Hi Stacey, I follow you I. Your blog and Instagram. I love yellow, pink and purple do I really have to pick just one ?? Ok I’m going with yellow.
    Thanks Barbara

  26. I follow you by email and my favourite colour is turquoise. It’s so hard to pick just one favourite. The colours in your quite are fabulous.

  27. I absolutely love this quilt! These are not my go to colors but I absolutely love this! I follow you on Instagram and my favorite colors are gray and blue but I’m loving this quilt palette!

    On IG I’m Bluesapphire29

  31. I think it is stunning Stacey! I follow you here and on IG. My fav colour is tourquoise, but I love this palette you’ve used. Can open up a whole new world for me!

  34. This is gorgeous!! Following you via Bloglovin. Purples and turquoise are my faves right now, but as long as the color is rich and saturated, I’m there! Thanks!

  38. I follow your blog, I follow you by email and on IG, and indirectly on FB through your insta posts. 🙂 Basically, anywhere I can find you. 😛
    My favourite colour is green. I love a lime green, a chartreuse, a sprout green.. almost all of them… even all blue-greens and yellow-greens.

  39. Stacy,
    I follow you on Instagram & your Blog. I am inthralled with Heat Wave; Girl, you stepped off that high rise roof into an adventure of creativity, beauty, & most of all success. I will begin a similar quilt with the fire of your design as soon as I finish Radiation & have some energy. Thank You for posting this lovely brightness that I will look at several more times.

    I so love the colours Purple & Red & since Radiation, I need White every where!

  42. Wow! Heat Wave has me fascinated and enthralled! I *love* it! I follow your blog on Feedly, and love any color in the red-pink-purple spectrum, although except maybe for brown, there aren’t any colors I actively dislike.

  44. I follow via Bloglovin and now on Instagram (I’m user sckett).
    Favorite colors are blue and green.

  46. Your quilt is gorgeous! 😍 My favorite color is purple and I follow you on Instagram.

  49. Following on IG. Favorite color is most of them! I love everything about your quilt – it’s practically perfect!

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