A New Perspective on Quilting- Quilting with Jose Part 1

Quilting with Jose – A New Perspective on Quilting

Last year I had the pleasure of helping my daughter’s boyfriend, Jose, to create a baby quilt for his sister’s baby. Jose is a real renaissance man. He can sew, fix cars, build motorized bicycles and improve our camping experience to almost glamorous levels. He can do almost anything he wants without help from me. So when he came to me to ask for help making a bay quilt for his new nephew, I was flattered.
I explained the basics to him about color and value and showed him how to use my Electric Quilt program (EQ). To keep things simple I recommended a rail fence pattern but to keep it interesting I suggested a four rail fence block.
Next I suggested that he use a color palette that included warm & cool colors and contrasting colors. We both agreed that this combination would make for a stimulating quilt for a child to look at. Jose decided that he liked purple and orange. So we added in the complement for purple which is yellow and the complement for orange which would be blue. To help lessen the intense vibration hat complementary colors can create I recommended that Jose use a cool orange to complement the warm blue and a cool purple to complement the warm yellow.
Here was Jose’s first idea for the design. We both agreed that the yellow and orange zig zags competed too much with each other.

So Jose decided to keep the yellow fence and use blue for his other fence. Which we both liked a lot.

Now that he had decided on the color palette I let him go through my stash to find fabrics that matched the EQ representation of the design. Here is the final quilt.

We had so much fun that we intend to make another quilt together for one of his friend’s baby girl. So stay tuned for more quilting with Jose.

Thanks for visiting my blog and happy quilting to you! Janice