2018 Mighty Lucky Quilting Club

I signed up and paid for the 2018 Mighty Lucky Quilting Club even though I hadn't really enjoyed the 2016 club and then decided not to participate in 2017.  I changed my mind because it's now bimonthly rather than monthly, which feels more doable; two of my favorite video quilting instructors--Carolyn Friedlander and Angela Walters--as well as some other sewlebrities collaborated to design a cohesive end product of a throw quilt; and instruction will be devoted to C O L O R, which I obsessed on in my last few quilt projects.

I auditioned colors in Carolyn Friedlander's coloring templates and showed them to my husband to choose his favorite.  He chose my last coloring page which surprised me.  I was drawn to the first of blue, aqua and chartreuse and asked him why not that one? He replied that it was too simple--an aesthetic I love in modern quilting--but okay I'll try something different.

The color palette chosen by the hubs evolved from another one I was drawn to of purple, lilac, orange yellow, orange, coral red, and light brown.  To my last coloring template, I added chartreuse and kelly green and eliminated the coral red.  However, I thought maybe the eye needed a rest from all that vibrancy, and so I also threw in the neutrals of light gray and white to tone it all down.

 After I auditioned all those colors in Carolyn Friedlander's actual block design, I think it's rather garish.  Also there's the matter of my skill set.  I am an enthusiastic beginner, not an intermediate quilter yet.  I've not a lot of experience with foundation paper piecing.  Thus, I visited a subscription video arts and craft site for a multi-part class of Friedlander's on Paper-Pieced Quilts.  Thank goodness I watched because I realized I need to simplify the colors in the blocks even more.  I've a palette of six colors, which is perfect as Friedlander's design call for 12 blocks total, and so each block will be comprised of triangles in white and in one of the six colors from the palette.  Rather than randomly interspersing all the colors, I'll sew a row of white triangles and then a row of colored triangles.  Back to coloring another block/flow layout!  But  it's cheaper and wiser to audition first with color pencils and paper rather than expensive quilting cottons.