Extravayarnza

We were so busy at the store today that there was no chance to get any knitting done. Plus, I had a time consuming assignment for my painting class. One of those assignments that takes tons of time, is worth practically no points, but is well worth the experience it gives you.

I've now mixed a couple of hundred colors using my acrylic paints filling little grids like these...


The theory is that with these charts in my portfolio & with the notes I took on which colors I used, I will be able to easily make the colors I want when I'm painting. I can see these helping.... I can't easily see myself pulling these out while I'm painting. I hope that I do though.

I've also been collecting fabric for my first quilt. Sewing a quilt has been on my 'to do' list since the costume shop I worked at sewed 3 of them for a show. I had a great deal of fun making those, but so many people were working on them we finished all three in less than a week.

I found a fun quilt pattern, Log Cabin Crazies. There is a really good picture of one over at Quilt Makers of Dallas.
I'm up sizing the pattern a bit, rather than 54" square I'm making a 72" square. I hope to bump that up to 80" with the border.
By my calculations I need 8 yards of dark & 8 yards of medium.
Here's my 8 mediums..

& My 7 darks (I doubled up on the one on the right)

It was not easy to find this many fabrics that I liked & fit together. My original vision was greens & browns. The reds jumped in there at some point when I was choosing fabrics.
Did every one catch that I have a thing for paisley?