H E L L O + R E C A P
Hello Creators. How was your Halloween? We spent ours trick-or-treating with friends. I sometimes wonder how many more Halloweens I'll have with my daughter.
Last month, I introduced the beautiful Rotation quilt. I shared my progress on Instagram of a Halloween version of the quilt. (If you didn't get a chance to pick it up for free, then you can find it on my website for a nominal amount.) I don't typically work with orange and black, but it was nice to go outside my comfort zone and explore unchartered territories to grow my creative process. I won't say the orange and black color palette helped me explore new possibilities, but it surely did confirm my style and preferred color palettes.
This month, we are making the Discover quilt. I'm excited for this one, because I'm working with yellow. I love, love, and love yellow. The kind of yellow that reminds you of the bright mid day sun. It will be really easy to pick your color palette for this quilt, just pick two colors. See the next section for more information.
I'm so thankful for you joining me on this journey. Another way to show your thanks is simply by following me on Instagram, sandra.clemons.
Let's make something beautiful together,
Sandra
F R E E Q U I L T P A T T E R N
Say hi to this month's quilt pattern, called Discover. Let's make this quilt together during the month of November. My journey will be evenly spaced out throughout the month. Join me and/or follow along. I'll share about my progress on Instagram and hope you'll share your progress too. It's important to me to hear your voices. You are motivating and inspiring.
I'm not entirely sure how you feel about the difficulty of this quilt, but I have a bunch of reels and posts planned out to show you how I constructed this quilt successfully. In addition, the pattern is extra wordy to explain in detail how to make this quilt with ease. Come on, take this ride with me.
For November, this quilt pattern will be a free download for the next week or so on my website, sandraclemons.com. Grab the free download now!
Q U I L T T I P
For printed fabrics, it's easier to identify the right side of fabric by sight. The brighter side is the right side of the fabric, because fabric is printed on the right side. However, it is trickier to identify the right side for solid colored fabrics. I have good news for you, there is a way to tell the right and wrong side of solid fabric without looking for brightness.
I chose a solid yellow fabric for the Discover quilt. Although it doesn't matter much to track the right and wrong side of solid colored fabric, it might occur to you to consider what is the right side of solid colored fabrics during the construction process.
During the fabric manufacturing process, the fabrics are put on rollers. The rollers leave tiny little holes along the selvage of the fabric. The holes punch through from the wrong side of the fabric. When you touch the holes, the holes from the wrong side of the fabric will feel smooth while the holes will feel bumpy or indented on the right side of the fabric. That's it.
This tip will help you identify the right and wrong side of solid colored fabrics.
F R E E A R T P R I N T A B L E
This month's free art printable is Thanksgiving themed. You can find this art on my website, sandraclemons.com. Feel free to download and print it off. Tape or frame it to your wall to decorate for the holiday. I hope you enjoy.
