June Colour Inspiration
The colour inspiration for this month is actually a fabric inspiration.
My friend Swan Amity Sheridan is launching a new line of batiks with Island Batik, called Fusion, and has asked if some designers would mock up existing patterns in her new line to show it off. I thought this would work perfectly with my monthly colour inspiration posts.
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June Colour Palette
For this month, I didn't pick any Kona solids, since I was working with the Fusion batiks collection. Here are all the prints.
But if you'd like to pick a similar pink/coral/purple colourway in solids, and you have an iPhone, I recommend downloading the QuiltySolid app. You can either search by the name of a colour, a hex code, or CMYK values, or search from an uploaded photo and it will give you colour matches across all the different lines of solids from 16 fabric manufacturers, as well as threads from the likes of Aurifil, DMC, Wonderfil etc.
June Quilt Mockups
This was a fun and slightly different experience mocking up the quilts in "real fabrics" instead of solid swatches. I don't often work with batiks, but this line is closer to the tone-on-tone or solids I usually use, compared to other batik collections.
Starting off with Line Dance, I used at least half of the prints in this quilt. Each loop is a different fabric, so it really gives that scrappy look. To keep it from going completely crazy ;-) I repeated the colouring of the top half on the bottom half of the quilt, so if you were to turn it upside down, it would still look the same.
Next up is Flocks of Colour. This one is always a favourite because the flying geese really show off a fabric. It's still a scrappy look, but because it uses larger pieces, the prints actually show well. This is the "monochrome" version from the pattern, using 5 prints, plus a solid for a background. I feel with a lot of batiks, the having a solid background calms the busy look down just enough that the patchwork design really shows well.
When I saw the fabric swatches, I knew I had to try a gradient with them, so here's a version of the Dancing Hearts quilt using a peach to purple gradient. I think it works really well and gives that glow this pattern does so well.
And lastly, I wanted to see what this line would look like in small bits, so I tried out Scrappy Love. Because there are some more pinky coral fabrics and some more purple-hued ones, I thought I'd try to split them up and do a set of pink hearts interspersed with a set of purple ones. It's not as drastic a difference as with some other fabric lines, but I love how it still adds a little extra dimension and you can actually tell the difference.
Which one is your favourite mockup? And do you work with batiks? Whether or not you do (yet), I hope I have inspired you to give them a try in one of your next projects.
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