Brendan & Tiffany Sullivan

I am beginning to hate my first quilt. I made it with clearance fabric since I was a novice and didn’t want to spend much money on it. Thus the colors and patterns aren’t ones that I normally would have chosen and it really does not match the beautiful, soothing green walls of our bedroom either. Sewing my mom’s quilt has made me realize how important the fabric choices are. I loved working on it because I loved seeing the beautiful fabric coming together and coordinating so nicely. Therefore, I decided that I needed to buy fabric that I love (and would match our green bedroom walls) and make a new quilt for our bed.

Brendan and I spent a portion of Wednesday evening at Jo-Ann Fabrics looking for material for our new quilt. Here are the fabrics that we ended up choosing:

*My apologies for the poor quality of the photos; I did not have the patience to wait for good lighting. Please know that the colors are much more rich and worthy of our love. Just visit us some time and you can see for yourself!

pretty fabrics!

We started with the green pattern as it matches our beloved wall color:

green! (my favorite color)

We then chose a paisley that has the same green in it:

pretty paisley

Brendan picked out the black fabric and this gorgeous “crackle” design:

"crackle"

Brendan has a good eye. This fabric has gray, the same green in my first selection, and the most complicated-to-match color present in the anchor pattern (the paisley).

I love this gray fabric. It looks so full of texture and reminds me of a stone:

gray "stone"

Finally, I found this “complicated-color” pattern to match the last color in the paisley:

final piece of the puzzle

I know it doesn’t look like much in this photo, but it really was a devilish color to match. I really like the little leaves!

Well, there you have it. I am in love with this fabric, Brendan likes the fabric, and it matches our bedroom!

Doesn't it coordinate with the wall quite nicely?

I’m excited to get started and will be keeping you posted!

Love,

Tiff