jen, you are on my bucket list. i am currently making your HALO quilt....and having so much fun doing it. hope to someday take a class from you. you are so amazing. you got my creative juices flowing again. thanks
Too funny about Batiks! When I first started quilting, I loved all Batiks, but now have grown out of it and now favor the bright busy fabrics! Kaffe & Tula 😀. So enjoy your videos!
She really has a way of choosing fabrics that I never thought about...we are blessed to live here where Jean and Val bring these creative artist to teach :) hugs!
Again with the sneaky video reveal Anna. What a fun time that must have been wandering around the Stitchin Post with Jen. Hope you have some stills of the finall choice array.
A friend has just told me about your show, I love it. This is only the second video clip I have watched thus far, it was fabulous. I have always struggled choosing fabric and this clip with a fellow Aussie explaining how to do it has given me more confidence. Thank you. Ps can’t wait to watch more of your show.
Wow...thanks to Jen for sharing.....I just would have added more batiks... I’m allergic to civil war fabrics Glad we’re all different....makes looking at quilt so much fun
I have been watching your show for a couple of years and this is my first time to write a comment. I admire how much you get accomplished. You are an inspiration. Those buttons are amazing. I'm anxious to see how you use them.
80% of my stash is batik, but each to their own! I would never have added a batik to a floral motif standard fabric, but this has me thinking... Thanks for a lovely set of videos Anna. It's good to hear from another Aussie. Sometimes it gets lonely down here with most of the quilters I hang around coming from your part of the globe.
I need the store in my life! I am surrounded by country and reproductions. I love the pastel, the Quiltmania, and yes the batik! Don’t have much of that near me. Thank you for the class! Good info there. I am still learning to blend fabric. Need to get away from buying precut.
Absolutely loved how she did that. I think we get stuck in matchy matchy. A bit afraid to expand. I got looked at funny when i mentioned sometimes i pick my fabric before i ever know what pattern I'm using. I wonder all over sometimes different shops or online till i get what im looking for. I am putting taking a class from her on my must do list! Thank you so much Anna for taking us with you. Much appreciated.
When I first started Quilting I so disliked Batiks and now I love them! I will almost always always go for the bright Fabrics, ie, Kaffe Fassett, Amy Butler, Tula Pink, Joel Dewberry & Debi Payne just to name a few. I’m sorry but cream, coffee, vanilla, Browns, tans, White’s, blacks, pastels and low volume colors really do nothing for me.
Than you so much for this! I have such a hard time choosing fabrics, so I usually just use the fabrics that come in a line. Would love to have seen the bolts that everyone picked out. I love Jen's work but will probably never get the chance to have a class with her, so I really appreciate you taking the time and effort to share!
Anna, Creepy batiks? I think they feel like light weight sheets. Maybe we had something like them when I was a kid. We had lived in Florida. The color lesson was awesome! Thanks!
Ok, I want that whole table of fat quarters and the tuffet and then Jan Kingwell to shop for me and... and... and...thanks for sharing the tips choosing coordinating fabrics. That is where I don’t have a lot of confidence.
HI! At time marker 1:26, you see a star wall hanging in yellow, black, grey and white, to the left,....may I have the name of that pattern pretty please and thanks?.... :-)
I don't but isn't it cool...if you call The Stitchin' Post and tell them you saw it in one of my videos and describe the quilt...they'll be able to tell you :)
I think from the first batik quilt I made that made me sick and activated my asthma... I gave them up. The odor is a challenge...but my quilt group is all about the batiks :)
Thanks for the information. I'm so jealous...I wish I could be there and learn from Jen. Maybe one day I can get to the west coast for a visit to Sisters. Thanks Jen, Anna & G.
the odor and the feel...one time I bought a kit and yes the quilt turned out beautiful but because I couldn't prewash the fabrics because the kit was precut...by the time I was done my asthma was in full force and my hands were all chapped from handling the fabrics...I am a whimpy quilter, LOL
Isn't the idea of picking fabrics or the process of getting your color combos suppose to make you happy n then the process of making your quilt will make you smile....just saying
yes...but for some the picking is much like when you buy an apple because it looks beautiful but you bite into it and it is yucky, LOL...we all struggle with different things in life but in the end you have a beautiful quilt :)
