Gentle Domesticity Week 7 - More Color

This week our book study with Jenny continues to delve into the use of color in our homemaking. And again, this is a favorite topic of mine. I am certainly not monochromatic, though I lean toward certain colors to brighten up my life. When we moved into our current home, everything (and I mean everything! was painted dark tan). As you saw last week, I have drastically changed that with the help of my artistic daughter.

In the book The Gentle Art of Domesticity, Jane Brocket shows how she like to have great blocks of color kissing each other as she makes her quilts. I am a little more conservative in my tastes in that I like a modest space between the various fabrics so will put a sashing or a tamer block in between the bright and bold blocks.

This is my "A Few of My Favorite Things" quilt top, which has yet to be taken to the long-arm quilter.

I like the definition and border between block and feel that this helps them to stand out a little more.

Jane did inspire me, however, to get out my leftover yars and start a baby/lap afghan using up my little bits and randomly putting them where I like them. I'm also randomly making some colors thick and some thin without really counting how many rows of each I'm doing. The pattern is from an old Mainstays Crafts yarn label, but I'm using Caron Simply Soft yarns. Is that cheating? Hope not.

It's kind of fun and kept my hands busy as we watched a marathon of Ocean's 11, 12, and 13 during a blizzard weekend. 

This pic was actually taken before the blizzard. We have much more snow now.

At the end of Jenny's Week 7 post, she asks a few thoughtful questions:

** With craft supplies are you the use-it-up and wear-it-out kind of gal or thoroughly modern and more excited by the new styles and things on offer?

** Is there a project in your home which you made a while ago that’s lost its appeal due to your own ‘moving on’ with regards to colour and style? Would you consider re-making it in the colours you love for this season of life?

** Last week and this week we've read and thought a lot about colour. Are you looking at the way you use colour in your creative pursuits any differently? 

** Jane's quite adventurous and open to trying a variety of colour combos and styles even when they're not what she'd normally go for - would you describe yourself that way or are you 'shy' when it comes to change?

I would say that I'm definitely a use-it-up crafter so much so that I have frequently been called a pack-rat. I am working on allowing myself to get get rid of some crafting stuff. In fact, I'm forcing myself to do that. 😉

There are many projects I've done over the years that I've gotten rid of because they no longer fit my style. Remember when geese were popular in the 80's? I did all kinds of geese ceramic projects which I no longer have except for one little cannister that I can't bear to part with. I also used a lot of the popular earth tones which to my recent self seem depressing.

I've always been a fan of color, so I haven't changed much in that realm except that maybe I'm more willing to be random with it. So that answers the last two questions.

How's your colorful life these days?