Do you like working with stripes? Or, do you avoid them?
I love stripes for sashing, borders, binding. But I rarely use them for anything else. One day I was at the LQS and noticed this bolt of fabric with 1″ stripes in shades of black/gray sitting on a chair. I commented on it and the owner said people just weren’t excited about it.
Now, that’s a challenge if I ever saw one! So my mind started doing it’s thing and an idea came to me.
Shades of Black & Gray
I started gathering up other fabrics to go with it and when I got home I started playing in EQ7.
Fabrics used with the stripe
I’ve finished the quilt top and I’ll show that to you in a few days but what I want you to do is:
Put on your thinking caps and tell me what you think should be done with this grouping.
Quilting Tizzy 
carol c
/ October 4, 2012i am interested infinding some of the fabrics in the red,black and whites you show please. I looked all over today and could not find any, that matches the interior of my car-thank you
katie
/ October 4, 2012I think a kalidascope style quilt would be very interesting or even a trip around the world might be fun
Quilting Tizzy
/ October 6, 2012Hi Katie. I’ll have to think about how I could do a kaleidoscope design using the gray stripes. That’s the main fabric.
Good idea
Susan
/ October 5, 2012Such elegant fabrics need an equally elegant pattern…rich, timeless…Magic Squares? One for the Money? Isosceles 12421 Quilt Pattern? Chain Linked? Walk About? Sampler using the gray/black stripe in each block? I can’t wait to see what you come up with!!
Ruth S.
/ October 5, 2012I think I would use it in a log cabin quilt with a red 1″ border and the gradient gray stripes also as the binding.
Jean in MN
/ October 5, 2012I made a Card Trick quilt with red, black and white. They went well together in that pattern. Carpenter’s Star would be dramatic as well.
wordinpatchwork
/ October 5, 2012Oh dear…despite my personal opinion of the book, the fabric kinda begs for a “50 Shades of Grey” quilt, doesn’t it? I’m glad you chose the pop of red. Like you, I love stripes, so I can’t wait to see what you came up with!