Watercolor fabric selection
admin October 27th, 2008
Saturday I taught the Holiday Tree class in Salado, Texas at A Sewing Basket. It is a wonderful shop with lots of different fabrics and friendly staff. Anyway, we reviewed do’s and don’ts on buying watercolor fabrics.
Some of the do’s:
Size: Medium to large scale
Shapes: Curvy designs like flowers, fruit, paisleys
Color: Fabrics with 3 or more colors
Some of the don’ts:
Size: avoid prints that are too small, calicos
Shape: avoid straight lines, geometric lines, strips, plaids, dots
Color: avoid tone-on-tone
The reasoning is that the eye needs to move from one 2″ square to the next. Your 2″ square should never be small enough to show the entire design because that will stop the eye. The goal is to have an image that looks like a painting.