Analyze Fabric & Teacup Process

[00:00:00] diane: Hey diane here with Creatives Ignite, and this episode is really about analyzing a quilt and all the patterns that are in the quilt. This is a really old quilt. I feel like I am not great with color, and I think must get that natural from the Gibb side, and I feel like I’m not. I know that I really struggle with the hero.

[00:00:27] So you have three kinds of patterns. You have a hero [00:00:30] pattern, you have a coordinate, and you have a ditsier blender. Part of this journey is me figuring out what the formula is for me for these, and I am looking at other people. I have no idea who designed these, and the people who put this quilt together talk about rando patterns, but.

[00:00:50] Hey, I like it. it’s neat. it’s was probably pilt in the forties, or fifties maybe. So I hope you [00:01:00] enjoy, I’m gonna do some more of these, but I’m also gonna do some analyzing of current designers because I am trying to learn and I’m trying to see what works with people. And there are some things that I did find out here, and I hope that you enjoy it.

[00:01:18] Lemme know. If it helps, maybe you’ll look at your quilts or things that you see out in the wild a little different. Okay. I just wanna start off [00:01:30] here. This is the process of the teacups, how I actually made them. I made one out of some pretty thin paper, and which I talked about last time. And this is just me deciding to make, six more, which I did use.

[00:01:49] For some patterns and I’m, it’s a little bit thicker paper, so I’m cutting them out and I did, a left side and a right side. And I, [00:02:00] I just wanna show you my process. I’m using just regular old scissors, dollar store scissors, and I do have some smaller scissors

[00:02:13] using some Faber Castell. Gray or like a blue gray marker just to add some details. I’m using acrylic wash that’s showing how the, little tea light’s gonna fit. It ended up looking to not great ’cause I [00:02:30] think I kept it in my bag too long and it really got all wrinkly. So I think I need to do something else with the light part.

[00:02:38] But again, you can see what I’m using to get. but I’m actually making these, are real little collages, these aren’t necessarily collages, but I, they’re mixed media pieces for sure.[00:03:00] 

[00:03:08] I did draw on these. This one I ended up thinking I did it too much and I ended up painting on top of it. Didn’t like it. I don’t love the colors. I really don’t like the peach color. I just didn’t like it together. So I ended up in Photoshop going back when I actually made the, piece I adjusted. I didn’t [00:03:30] really adjust this color that much or the blue, but I adjusted the peachy color to be like a lavender.

[00:03:42] Sometimes I have to turn it over and cut the outside out, and then I am, I shaved off the little fuzzies and then I do get my little scissors out. But I am gonna paint, like [00:04:00] where some of I’d painted over that yucky eyed again, this is what I love. I love working like this. Doing these pieces that I can just paint over. I could add something on top of it. I think I just needed less shadow. Sometimes I just have to play, and these are both the same color, just I guess I put more green on one.[00:04:30] 

[00:04:30] That’s how the light’s gonna work. I painted the light that, tracing paper like a yellow. Now here’s me finishing up figuring out what, color I wanted to paint the tea or coffee. My head gets in there in a minute.[00:05:00] 

[00:05:04] I really don’t know what I was doing there. I think I was just doing a wash just to give it a little bit darker feel. And then I’m just using this one as the template. Oh, there’s my head.[00:05:30] 

[00:05:45] I like to see how people make. Things. So you know, this is at 500 speed. Definitely. I don’t work this fast.[00:06:00] 

[00:06:11] I’m gonna cut it out. So I don’t really need, I’m using like a luminance pencil there. There’s the acrylic wash.

[00:06:29] I’m just making a [00:06:30] slit so I can put that little tea light in.

[00:06:37] Just want it to fit all of them.

[00:06:46] I have a really good blade

[00:06:59] I am [00:07:00] using here. I decided to use different colors for all of them. That was a green gold or gold Karen dash neo color two.

[00:07:15] Just scan these in, All right, so I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and it is analyzing some old quilts, and so these are [00:07:30] some that are from my family. All right, so I’m gonna go through in my limited knowledge as I’m learning. Hero coordinate ditzy, and then we have fabric that’s just solid. Obviously we need solids.

[00:07:46] I would say this is probably after the second war. So my dad was born in 42. This is something I see all already. So they put it in a different way as they’re [00:08:00] quilting it. I just love the bubbles here. the puckering. This is a coordinate. This would go with obviously something solid or solid, this color.

[00:08:12] But I think it’s, this is so perfect for me because they’re making weird color connections that, you know what, with a quilt, I think it works. but if we’re talking about this I think is the hero clear. [00:08:30] This pattern has, I’m gonna just count the different flowers. So this is a repeat, so it must be a half drop or something.

[00:08:40] So I see one,

[00:08:45] maybe they just repeated that one, but it’s not the exact. Nope, it’s not. ’cause there’s that black thing underneath there. So it’s the same pattern but turned or adjusted. So we’re gonna, I’m gonna maybe have to put a [00:09:00] number on them. But that’s always what I’m do. How many are the same within the repeat?

[00:09:10] so I can’t see the repeat yet, in this section. Let’s see. Okay, so in about this section, I don’t see the repeat happening. I see similar flowers, but, and there’s layering. So one thing. Note to [00:09:30] myself is there’s layering in number one. There’s layering. There are, let’s count, so there’s the colors.

[00:09:43] You see me, the colors are cream, so this or the white, but I’m sure cream. There’s cream, brown, lavender.[00:10:00] 

[00:10:00] Mint green,

[00:10:04] orange, this is the lavender, so it’s, similar, but not so we, and so cream, orange, brown, lavender, green. I think it’s just five colors. That’s what I’m [00:10:30] thinking. Okay, so we have five colors and

[00:10:39] to see what section. This is one piece of fabric, but this piece is one piece. It goes from here to.

[00:10:52] This is where this one piece, and I’m just trying to see if I’m seeing where the repeat happens. And to be [00:11:00] honest, I don’t, from this piece, if I’m going, it may re, no one has to repeat this way too,

[00:11:11] so there’s a lot of layering. That’s one thing, but I don’t. I don’t see another one that looks like that. And, your repeat could happen six inches, 12 inches, 24 inches.

[00:11:28] I don’t see like [00:11:30] a, hero element or object. So maybe it’s, not the hero.

[00:11:45] But there’s a lot going on for me, so I would think, I always think of a coordinate as being, it’s big, but it’s limited colors. Maybe these things will be [00:12:00] easier to see when it’s, you just don’t see it. Oh wait, this repeats. This element right here repeats exactly over here. So we have, I gotta find it again.

[00:12:18] So I think it was this one and this one. So it is probably a half drop repeat. I’m just gonna do it like this and see where this one pops up. I’m doing the middle of the [00:12:30] iris or what? I don’t know. The center of the flower. So it looks like about seven. I just pull this down. Seven and a quarter. Weird number, but, okay.

[00:12:45] So there’s a lot in here. If I’m looking at this, I know there are similar flowers, but they have drawn them multiple times and they’re not just picking it up and [00:13:00] co copy paste exact. So I think that’s something that. My students just wanna be like, okay, I’m using that flower, I’m using it here and here and here and it’s, oh, and granted, we all kind of work that way to some extent if we’re under deadline.

[00:13:15] But I think even these were drawn separate. these are separate. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, maybe seven, eight.[00:13:30] 

[00:13:33] Okay. So eight of those little leave things, different of those, things. So they’re maybe eight sets. Then we have, the flowers that are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or five. This is a really bad flower. And [00:14:00] they have this thing with the little statements come out. So we have this kind, we’ve got one white flower, two, two white flowers.

[00:14:16] I don’t know if that really matters, but these are the same sort of flour. So we have, then there are leaves, there are flowers, and then there are those. Those things. So there’s this [00:14:30] two, three, flower wise, we have this one that’s a, we have one type that’s like this. We have another type that is a four leaf.

[00:14:43] I’m just trying to analyze to see, and it has a circle with this, there’s a little bit more stuff on detail on the.

[00:14:58] So with this one, we [00:15:00] have a white one that has a brown center. We have a white one that has orange here. Orange here.

[00:15:15] We have no green flowers. I have some leaves that are.

[00:15:25] Orange leaves with it looks like a [00:15:30] detail of brown

[00:15:35] filled, orange green leaves with a, green fill with tail brown. But I also see green leaves with. Detail of white, maybe it’s green detail, white [00:16:00] whitely. Okay. Have these solid brown leaves.

[00:16:11] Piece of the thing. Anyway, we have these five, these flowers. We have a brown flower. That is a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, a five pedal. Not perfect. It’s overlapping weird places, and it just, it has [00:16:30] white or whatever, these circles that are also white, brown, center,

[00:16:41] brown and white. It’s just a brown and white, like this one has some brown detail.

[00:16:53] Okay, so let’s do one of these purple flowers. So

[00:16:59] [00:17:00] let’s do this one. This one is a purple flower with orange and brown detail, and it is, there’s detail up here. And then the center looks this as some coming in further. And there’s this, it’s [00:17:30] a orange and brown. This is orange.

[00:17:37] Okay. But it’s a lot. It’s a lot. And the colors don’t match and the rest of the quilt. So we’ll see. So we’ve done this one. This is just a plane. So I don’t know if they would give people, you’re gonna do a plane that’s here and here, right? But Pernell M, she did a [00:18:00] really wonderful job on name. And here’s another plane.

[00:18:04] So maybe plane goes in an order. So this is Mr. Arnold and I would consider this a coordinate and it does not match, but it stands out. These kind of are, this color pink. but this has two colors, I guess three colors. The, there’s the white, [00:18:30] the purple, and then the blue. Maybe there’s four colors.

[00:18:35] I don’t know. It looks more like a, there’s a, it’s like a watercolor, so there’s variations of color, especially over here. I don’t know. There’s a lot more blues maybe, but basically it’s three Dark blue, light blue and like a purple blue. I don’t, I wouldn’t think this went together. I [00:19:00] love this, but again, for somebody who struggles with color, if this is what I’ve been looking at my whole life, no wonder this goes with this, but this doesn’t really go with the outside.

[00:19:11] Maybe it was important to have kind of a. I don’t know, the orange kind of throws me, and I love orange, but this is real faded. But this looks pretty brand new. Obviously not brand new, but, and then this looks just like Chambre or whatever. So we have [00:19:30] daisies. This, I still don’t think this is a ditzy because I don’t think it’s small enough.

[00:19:38] again. Who knows, but maybe they were all using a coordinate and then using this as their place of rest. It very much looks like just the same flower repeated down, on the checkerboard part, which I can see, [00:20:00] this, that one looks different than this one. It’s a little hard to see. I know the leaves.

[00:20:08] They might move a little bit. That looks a little different from that, and that looks maybe different. No, those two are the same. So maybe they did.

[00:20:25] Yeah. This flower’s different from this flower, so maybe they did two [00:20:30] different flowers and they’re just here. These are, but they flip ’em. So this is a non-directional. So these are at the bottom here. These are at the bottom here. It’s a one purple, white, blue, green pink, five color again. All right, so let’s do this one, which I probably like this one the most.

[00:20:57] I definitely don’t those with the [00:21:00] base fabric, but I like, there’s this, just this tiny bit of yellow in this, and I like that. Annie, Ruth, Lindsey. This, I would definitely say it could be a hero. It’s pretty big. definitely doesn’t go. and there’s multiple kind of grouping. So this may have been a hero.

[00:21:24] This is a lot of colors. So we have blue, royal, blue, [00:21:30] green, red, yellow, white. Six two Blues. One of the blues is acting as the dark, but there’s like this cluster here. Maybe this is just the top. Nope, it’s a different top. Maybe it’s just about clustering. That is something I see a lot. There’s not as much layering, so I’m gonna say maybe it’s not a hero, it’s just a coordinate.

[00:21:58] Hopefully. This is [00:22:00] interesting. So Louise Lindsay has a. I don’t know a textured fabric for this. I would definitely say this is a ditzy, probably really thin on the edges. And, this is the middle. This is, I would say non-directional ’cause well, it’s up and down or side to side, however you tend to cut it.

[00:22:29] But [00:22:30] it’s the same thing would be a really, It’s, a bigger ditzy than what I normally see, so anyway, good to see. But very graphic. There’s no detail. It’s just shapes and it’s very taking liberty on what? The little thing that holds the bud onto the thing. It’s like a triangle arrow thing. So interesting.

[00:22:57] It’s just a checkerboard, but it’s a really small, [00:23:00] so definitely a dit. I would also say this is a coordinate. It has a lot of colors though, and it’s big, but I always think of a coordinate as being big, bigger, not as big, maybe as the hero, but we have dark blue, which is also used around the, the, red.

[00:23:19] We have the white or cream, which really looks white here. And then we have the light blue, and this is just where they overlap, but maybe. [00:23:30] There’s a texture behind this one flower. And how many flowers do we have? So that’s the same flower. We have green. So there may be three blues, light blue,

[00:23:49] dark blue for sure. And then maybe this is a medium, or maybe it’s just where they two blues overlap, but you have to have [00:24:00] Transparent ink, so I dunno, instead of opaque. So it would’ve, I think it’s probably a third color is back there. so white, red, dark blue, medium blue, light blue, green.

[00:24:19] Did I say red, green, white, blue, Six colors. and I really think it’s the same drawing. [00:24:30] that one looks a little bit smaller. These leaves look smaller. So maybe two different drawings. Just trying to look and see if they look similar. You can see where it’s off. Register there. But really, they didn’t do very many, but they did.

[00:24:46] This is non-directional because they’re not headed in the same direction. Those are not facing, these are in the same direction, but that’s good to know. So Ms. Langley. We have [00:25:00] Lila Johnson. This is something I would pick out, plain, and then a ditzy, just checker. So this one is the most worn, so maybe this was the top of the quilt.

[00:25:17] I, it definitely, or my people can’t sew. Good. so I need to fix this one for sure. So we have a stripe that’s a unique, [00:25:30] so these white dots, so white for green, red, yellow, other color, the other color green kind of goes with this. And then we have white, so white’s probably just the fabric color, but white, yellow, green.

[00:25:54] So five colors. I don’t know. I think this is interesting that the dots don’t, they’re not [00:26:00] perfectly, the line, it’s touching the line every time. The others are pretty equidistant from each other. This one is probably one of my favorites because I think it’s just the most weird colors. obviously with this, I would definitely say this is.

[00:26:22] Maybe this is just a coordinate ’cause it doesn’t have much layering. If I’m thinking about layering is one of the one things I noticed about [00:26:30] hero. I think, maybe the ladies really put their personality. I don’t know. I think this is interesting. I think the colors on this are interesting. So again, for me, I can maybe pull from this to do colors or pull from this to do colors.

[00:26:52] main color here I think would be white. The pop color is the green and the [00:27:00] red probably there’s more navy and teal and maybe navy and teal, and then purple would be the third most used color. After white and dark blue, it looks like we might have another but darker blue, so maybe there’s teal, royal blue, dark blue, [00:27:30] purple, green, red, white, seven colors.

[00:27:37] I don’t know. I’m counting it like that. But this one is Myrtle Gibbs love her. She did a, cursive G stripes thick to thin. Okay. I don’t know who any of you are, Mabel, Gibbs. Maybe this is a great ant or [00:28:00] something. This is like a gradient, which. If you know me, I absolutely hate gradients, it’s is it faded like that?

[00:28:08] Or, I actually think it’s like stripes. So they have some thicker stripes and then they put some of these purple things in and they put some of the green inside this. So you can see the stepping how it got to be a gradient, but maybe this is why I have trouble with color. I get it natural. I.

[00:28:28] And we have these stripes, which are [00:28:30] directional. I think this is not a ditzy, this would be a coordinate. We have teal, yellow, white, pink, and blue. So five colors, thicknesses change the repeat. I guess they just did it like, I would say this is a ditzy or a, I would kinda say it’s a ditzy, but I don’t, anyway, I don’t know that much.

[00:28:55] But because it’s, everything’s so small. But again, this one’s kind [00:29:00] of small and this is the hero. We have pink. I believe it’s just a two color job, but it’s just mark making, which again, oh, diane, let’s do some mark making of different stripes. This one’s sound pretty well, not a lot of layering, but it’s. I might have thought that was a hero, but just ’cause it’s bigger.

[00:29:29] we [00:29:30] have blue, one color, blue, red, pink, and green and white. Lot of different drawings that go into one lot of different flowers that the same, no, same kind of flower, but not the same. All right, now this one is. Another Gibbs, LD Gibbs, that is definitely going rogue. Kinda like Mabel. did stripes and then a ditzy.

[00:29:58] This is for sure a [00:30:00] ditzy, so I should be able to see the repeat pretty quick. But it would be good to know how many little flowers she’s using. So I think I’m trying to match this one here. This one. Has a dot on the front. Now they’ve just put the dot on the other side on this one. Just trying to see where that thing repeats.

[00:30:28] And it has [00:30:30] three bumps.

[00:30:37] There it is. There is that the first time it repeats and it would have that little bit.

[00:30:46] Yeah, maybe because that looks like that. So yeah, this is the, so I’d say that was four inches, maybe.

[00:30:58] That’s a lot that’s [00:31:00] happening that a lot of it looks different. Maybe they twisted the flower. This has a lot of color. This has. For ditzy. This has a lot. So we have a blue green, another green, and red and white. So five colors here. Stripes pink. Maroon white, green, yellow. Georgie.[00:31:30] 

[00:31:32] Georgie, G-E-O-R-G, or Jory. Jory Gibbs. I don’t dunno. I think she ran out of fabric. So these two match this and this match and this match. this kind of an interesting stripe. Obviously this, one looks more [00:32:00] dated, this one doesn’t. So lots of stripes happening. Multiple blues. It looks like a light blue.

[00:32:09] The darker, the medium blue, royal blue, and then a dark, blue and it is just gradating and stripes. So thicknesses, this sort of looks like it goes with Mabel’s a little bit with, it’s kinda like purple and green. I do think it just should be last one. [00:32:30] It’s the crumbly. She went white here, just very dirty pink.

[00:32:35] And then she did these little, maybe they’re like cotton bowls. I would definitely say this is a ditzy. It’s yellow, white, and brown, like it non-directional. That was the quilt overview. That’s all we got to today. Hey, thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate it. If you will hit and subscribe, that really helps.

[00:32:59] And [00:33:00] also just comment to let me know, diane, don’t ever do another quilt one, or please do another quilt one. I have lots of other ones. I have another big quilt over there. I might break it into some smaller things, but I hope that you enjoyed it and I will look to see you. It looks like it’s about every two weeks, so I’ll see you every two weeks with another one.

[00:33:21] I hope you have a great couple weeks. [00:33:30] Bye.