Color! An Engineer’s guide to color value and color placement in your quilts

This is a return visit for Charles. He so impressed the guild last year that we wanted to invite him back for more color and style inspiration.

As an engineer, Charles approaches color selection and placement in quilts in a very methodical way. In this talk he’ll discuss several strategies for selecting fabric colors and their placement when planning your quilt to add interest and depth. He promises there aren’t any quizzes or mathematical equations!

The talk is in 3 parts: Charles begins with a brief discussion on color theory basics (the color wheel, and concepts: hue, tone, shade, and value). In the second part he shares quilts that he's sewn using other designers’ patterns and discusses different ideas for color placement. In the third part he shares his own original designs, and discusses the approach to how colors were selected to enhance the overall effect and design.

Join the lunch bunch at Sol-Y-Luna, 1715 Brevard Rd. (sign up at Guild Mtg)

This meeting will be a social Mix & Mingle after the business meeting. Details will be shared as soon as they are available.

Quilt as Desired

Those three words "quilt as desired" strike fear in many quilters. Cheryl Brickey will share a step-by-step process you can use to help determine which quilt design you should use on your quilts, whether you are quilting it yourself or sending it out to a quilting professional. This helps you decide between allover versus custom patterns, which designs to use, and even quilting density and thread color. She will show many of her quilts and discuss how she decided the quilting patterns for each.

Cheryl is a chemical engineer who loves designing quilts and quilt math. She is the author of Just One Charm Pack Quilts, Just Two Charm Pack Quilts, and Modern Plus Sign Quilts.

Cheryl has had her work published in major quilt magazines and won awards in international quilt shows. She created her company Meadow Mist Designs to bridge her technical background with a love of quilting to deliver classic and modern quilt patterns.

Cheryl lives in South Carolina with her husband, two school-age kids, and four cats.

The lunch bunch will go to Tooley's Cafe at 1729 Brevard Rd. (Sign up at mtg.)