the blue blog archives: i hope you like yellow

My eight fat quarters from Sew Mama Sew's Fat Quarter Swap and look 5 of them are yellow! What are the chances? The swap was totally random without any of us swappers and swappees knowing anything about each others' preferences. (Yellow is not a preference I would have stated, but I don't dislike it.) Still, it's generally considered a difficult color and I'm stunned by the fact that 5 of my fellow swap buddies sent me something so completely yellow. (Of the eight I sent out, I had chosen one yellow fabric.) Each of them is very pretty though.

Now the question is what to do with them. There is a yellow-fan in the family (my son B, whose coat, backpack, socks, crocs, t-shirts, and bedspread all speak of his love of yellow - in fact, when wee one sees a yellow car or bike or toy, she says "B's car"), but these fabrics are a little too flowery to be turned into something for him. Hmmmm... As much as I'd like to keep them together, since they came to me together so serendipitously, it's a lot of yellow. The first one would work in my civil wary quilt though. And the third in a little wall hanging I'd planned for wee one that uses the same line of fabrics. The fifth, with the bumblebees, could become something wee and adorable for wee one. And I just looooove that blue animal print under that one...

posted by alison at 1:51 pm | in are you going to start quilting now?!

Comments

What beautiful fabrics! And I'm not much of a fan of yellow. Like a great many other people, I just look jaundiced if I try to wear it.

Posted by: Donna at March 5, 2009 3:00 PM

I missed the deadline for this swap but you got some fine stuff. I am not the biggest fan of yellow but like most of your quarters. The one from the swell collection is home here too (had to buy the whole fat quarter bundle) and the animal print is on that I am waiting for to be delivered from the states. I already got it in another colourway today. Oh Fransson (Simple Modern Baby Quilts)used it for a sweet baby quilt, which I plan to make for my niece to come. Although I guess I won't use the original fabrics.
Perhaps you can use some of the quarters for a Melly & Me Pattern (Or Peanut the Elephant from the Last Minute Book)?

Have fun with them

Sibylle

Posted by: Sibylle at March 5, 2009 3:07 PM

Great ideas to make a softie, Sibylle!

Posted by: ALISON at March 5, 2009 3:25 PM

Those are some gorgeous fabrics. In those rare times when I sew, it is always clothing. It makes it a little harder to look at these fabrics and picture what to do with them (I have a hard time imagining sewing with large patterned fabrics).

Posted by: Seanna Lea at March 5, 2009 5:59 PM

When I saw your post my first thought was the 60's Donovan song Mellow Yellow! I don't know your age, but that song used to inspire me...
Here is a link to the lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/mellow-yellow-lyrics-donovan.html
Now it's going to be in my head all night! :P

Posted by: Kathy at March 5, 2009 6:46 PM

I'm just mad about saffron, but not yellow...

Posted by: Libby H at March 5, 2009 7:29 PM

Oooh, saffron sounds much prettier than yellow! It's more orange, right? Well, we all know how much I'm liking orange these days, so I think I must agree with you! :)

Posted by: ALISON at March 5, 2009 8:24 PM

Ooh how about some pretty cushions for wee one's room, or you could mix and match them with greens or reds.

Posted by: sue at March 5, 2009 8:46 PM

Alison the Koala pattern from Melly&Me you saw in my flickr stream should work with fat quarters. :)

Posted by: Sibylle at March 6, 2009 2:30 AM

I love yellow! Looks especially good with purple/blue.

Posted by: karin at March 9, 2009 10:15 AM