Colors and patterns, patterns and colors. What to use for this special quilt. Often times the person to receive the quilt has special interests, hobbies, etc, and that will get you started. Home decoration of that special person will give direction. There ARE times when there is none of that to lead you and you are left to your own devices for color and pattern.
Don't you often see some great colors in restaurants, homes, store displays? I love pastel southwest decor and think "What a great quilt that combination would make!"
Old quilts on display show us some of the beauty of old fabrics, and now many of these or similar prints are available. The old quilts will give ideas on patterns and how to use them.
I saw a red and white Bear's Paw displayed on a porch at an antique shop in Louisiana several years ago. I have held that quilt in the back of my mind ever since. I still plan to make a red and white quilt - - - some day. I have the book "Two Color Quilts" by Nancy Martin just waiting for that day.
I attended a lecture on "Color in Quilts" and expected to hear and see all kinds of examples of uses of color. The speaker was drawn to nature's designs and spoke of learning to be aware of all of nature's beauty. She mentioned even looking at the country roadside, just a square yard and really seeing all the color in that square yard. She gave other examples of what colors nature puts together. She said she had brought small examples of this bounty. I expected to see riots of color as she brought forth a pile, I mean a great pile of small quilts to illustrate her point. As she displayed each one with pride and commented on the colors used, I began to see what she meant by that square yard of country roadside. All of the many quilts were different shades of brown, dark brown, bright brown, light brown, speckled brown, grey with brown, on and on, all bound in, you guessed it, brown. So if nature is your inspiration, venture a little further abroad than a square yard on the roadside.
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