Oh, Fransson!
Last night I poured over Elizabeth Hartman's blog Oh, Fransson!. I had seen her blog's name come up before. Who could forget it? But I hadn't really visited her blog until this week. Wow! Not only does Elizabeth do beautiful work, she blogs with such excellent clarity that learning from her is really a joy. I learned more from reading through her 2009 Quilt-along, designed for beginners, than I've learned from many a dry (and outdated) quilting book checkout out from the library.
Elizabeth's post Color Basics for Quilting discusses color schemes with full-sized quilt examples to give you a real-world idea of how fabric swatches play out. Her post on Choosing Fabric for the Mod Sampler quilt along, makes me want to run out and start projects in a whole slew of her fabric group examples. And then there's the regular stuff, like Making a Quilt Sandwich and Making & Sewing Binding. Elizabeth does some things different than most bloggers (like pressing seams open), so her tutorials provide a new way of looking at things. I've struggled with understanding the binding process, and after seeing her pictures I know that I finally get it.
My very favorite piece of work is Elizabeth's current quilt-along, the Paintbox Quilt. If my husband would let me, I'd make something like that for our bed. Since that's not likely, I'll just have to dream about it...
Elizabeth's post Color Basics for Quilting discusses color schemes with full-sized quilt examples to give you a real-world idea of how fabric swatches play out. Her post on Choosing Fabric for the Mod Sampler quilt along, makes me want to run out and start projects in a whole slew of her fabric group examples. And then there's the regular stuff, like Making a Quilt Sandwich and Making & Sewing Binding. Elizabeth does some things different than most bloggers (like pressing seams open), so her tutorials provide a new way of looking at things. I've struggled with understanding the binding process, and after seeing her pictures I know that I finally get it.
My very favorite piece of work is Elizabeth's current quilt-along, the Paintbox Quilt. If my husband would let me, I'd make something like that for our bed. Since that's not likely, I'll just have to dream about it...