OMG talk about making a person think. Just watched you video. Went outside we are expecting thunder storms this arvo. I took a moment to look around the sky and paddocks. The colours were amazing going from off white a huge varient of Grey's and greens. Took heaps of photos to help with colour choices at a later date. Thankyou.

This goes very well with a piece of chocolate cake (even if it is 10pm)... always interested in the lots you have to say. I've enjoyed making my own bundle of harvested shirts, but I'm still deciding on a pattern for them. Next week I will enter a quilt in the county fair for the first time. Thanks for all the inspiration. 😊

ROY G BIV….that’s how I remember the color order….red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

Cathy! Hail from a Southern Sister! (AR) I have to say this is one of your most brilliant videos, and you have made a lot brilliant videos! 👏

I always look forward to "visiting" with you no matter the hour!

My husband and I visited New England, need I add, in the fall, from England and were amazed at the vibrancy of the colours. You assume the ads. are exagerated, they absolutely are not. Yes to the colours you picked for fall but on one day we went up Bear Notch in the White Mountains and amongst all those intense autumn colours on one tree was the soft lime green in your spring pick so for me that is also now part of autumn.

Amazing isn't it how collections of fabric can evoke a different response in people? Your example of the contrast between yourself and Pauls perception of summer beach v woods made me laugh. And your autumnal University colour left me cold, haha. When you think of textile Artists who create landscapes or collages from scraps they'll consider colour, tints, tones, scale, patterns and textures. As Quilters who create by recycling, I believe we do this every time we select our fabric choices from our stash and every time we opt to buy or not to buy from variety of items for sale in the charity shops/ thrift stores before they ever get near a quilt pattern. A great thought provoking video. Thanks Cathy.

My coffee, it’s 7am. I am in Pennsylvania and your Pennsylvania colors are right on. Blue sky and snow. Love it. Good morning to you and Paul. The group of the last spring looks like plastic Easter eggs to me.

Good morning ☕️ It sounds like a four-season quilt is coming! 🤔 It is truly amazing how you can tell a story with just scraps of fabric ❤

It's nice to hear an Eeyore quote. My favorite is, "Thanks for noticing me."

I absolutely ❤ the idea of picturing the colors of a day or a month! What an interesting and fun exercise! I once made a quilt full of different shades of blue, grey, and black…and I have always felt like it looks-color-wise-like the ocean to me

It was fun watching you pull together scraps for each season. For summer I think of beach colors and patriotic colors as well.

Hi Cathy. Aah, 30 minutes of colourful, interesting, and relaxing viewing. Just what my soul needs today❤️ Thanks so much, and have a great weekend from a cold, and wet UK! It’s a grey, brown, and steely blue day out there!

I had to laugh over your fifty patterns. I don’t so much order patterns unless I’m ready to make the quilt. (Assuming it’s not just a traditional block or my own design…). But I save screenshots on my phone of quilt ideas. I have 869 in that album right now!!! 😂😂 I do like the seasonal scrap idea. Just finishing a fall scrappy quilt. 😁

My Christmas colors are Red and Gold. I've never been fond of pastels, so my Spring colors are vibrant tulip and daffodil colors. Summer colors are very much like yours. We went camping in Italy every summer and spent all day at the beach and when we got back home, there was still time to go to the pool and feast on popsicles. Fall colors for me are vibrant reds, orange, and yellows, muted browns and greens. Then winter in January are grays and clues, but then February turns into bright blue skies and vibrant greens in the fields here in Eastern NC. Yesterday, after coming home from QC, I got a message from a friend who went through her mothers quilt stash with her mom and they gave me a huge garbage bag and 4 big boxes full of fabric and batting scraps. Your video could not have come at a better time. Thank you ☺

I liked the idea of imagining the colors of the seasons. The dominant colors here are very different, but just as lovely and elicit wonderful memories like you shared.

SCRAPS!!! SCRAPPY! SCRAPS, SCRAPS, SCRAPS!!!!! It’s a beautiful thing! I really enjoyed your take on seasons. Coming from Canada, some were the same and some were VERY different colour ways (based on my own experience).

I was hoping you’d share which scrap friendly patterns you like!

Growing up in Alaska my summers were also green and brown as the neighborhood grew every year and construction sites are a fun place to play in the dirt. Our dirt is black to dark brown and the evergreens that are plentiful are black spruce but the birch trees are white and the leaves go from yellow green to brown with no red or orange. Lots of colors in landscaping tho. We have Mt. Ash trees that have dark green leaves and then bright orange-red berries that cedar waxwings birds devour in Oct to Nov. Downtown the city puts hanging flowers on the street lights with vibrant yellow, purple and whiteish colors. Thanks for the quilty color feels. I had a lot to say about that. And the quilt behind you is lovely.

Wow, I love the idea of using associations when choosing colors. You seem like such a positive and joyful person. Thank you for sharing your brightness of spirit.

Pink lemonade would make a great pink/yellow quilt inspiration!

What a fun way to talk about color ❤ and I love how it kind of breaks the rules of the QP 😂

I always laugh when these are launching at 2qm thinking I won't be up at that time, and sometimes I am. Lol.

You two do such an amazing job on your videos! Congratulations!

Thank you for sharing! I told you in person today but I’m just adding it here too! Such a joy to meet you!!!

Love love love the quilt behind you, came out so well!

Hey! My understanding of “true scrappy” is to spend “no” time thinking about color. You use them all. Find a pattern you like, throw those scraps in a pile, grab a piece and off you go🙂 I watch and love you anyway, even though our way of thinking about quilt color choices differ. I watch because of your humor and in the end..truly love all your finished quilts. There you go, in the end, that finished quilt top is all that matters❤(KH)

What a fun way to come up with colours for a scrappy quilt. I would never have thought about the colours of the seasons! I am definitely going to give this a try. 💕 it will be fun to sit down with my husband to see what colours he would pick for each season compared to mine. Love your videos. Thanks for all you do!

I love this idea about thinking of color and how I would put it in a quilt! This gives me so much to think about when I look at my scrap bin! And a new way of looking at my Scripps! Thank you for your cool ideas!

What a beautiful way to think of colour and organize it. When looking at fabric, I imagine triangles on the colour wheel, but I'm digging the moods of the seasons you conjured up. Thank you for your fresh perspective. BTW, I really love the quilt on your design wall!

Spring, spring, spring. I’m so ready for spring.

A really enjoyable episode. So much to think about. I make lots of scrap quilts but have never really stopped to think about my colour choices in so much depth. Thank you for that light bulb moment.

Even tho I’m away from home this is Friday morning must see! Can’t wait to see this cause scrappy is happy.

I believe Circus Peanuts, those sickly orange things, give candy corn, arguably horrible, a stiff competition for the title worst candy.

The fall colors are my favorite. I LOVE Fall in Michigan! One year I made sets of silver, blue and white star placemats and the next year made popsicle placemats for my family as gifts at Christmas. I need to do Fall ones soon. Thanks for this video❣️

Thanks again for another informative video. Love your take on the seasons. Have to laugh summer in the country NSW would be browns - dead grass. Blacks red orange yellow - bushfires. LOL. With green thrown in. Thanks again. Given me a lot to think about. 😊

Haha I love your confidence “ your already sorted scrap bins 😂😂😂” I wish. I start sorting then I have to resort because this may be better or this way 🫣. Oh no there’s another sorting to try the colours of the seasons🤔down the rabbit hole again haha I love your videos cause it’s like being with my BF also named Jennifer I can relate immediately keep on saying a lot about it all from Louise in Melbourne 🦋🌼

So funny Cathy! Our local University here is Syracuse, same colors, navy and orange !! The current 'mascot' (so as to not offend anyone !) is 'Otto, the Orange' !! Cheers !! 😀

As weird as it may seem, my summer quilt would have to include some black. When I was growing up, we had one of those black Weber charcoal grills that my dad did the grilling on. We lost 1 of the legs and replaced it with a wood dowel when I was little. We used that grill for over 25 years. I have lived my entire life in the PNW and our beaches are usually gray and more rocks than sand, so I would be using some gray, darker blue-greens for the water, but bright colors for our beach towels and swimsuits.

Taking a "seasonal scrap view" ...what a great idea! As a fellow color lover I enjoy the thought process you shared today about connecting colors, feelings related to the seasons. P.S. I'm not surprised that your patterns offer limited "scrap" instructions.

Great thoughts. I don't think I could pull a cohesive palette together from scraps since they are too few. But what I loved doing was making a sampler quilt. All blocks individually where quite cohesive. Sashing did the trick to bring them all together in the end. But thinking of seasons or events or basically moods to pull fabrics is a really great suggestion. And: have a ton of fun at QuiltCon!!

Perfect word: stymied. Me, too…me, too. Thanks for your input. (I have a bajillion patterns, too.🙄) Also, green means spring to me. I think it depends on your location as to what colors your seasons stir up in your mind. As far as winter..🥶 it’s blue and white and sparkly snow! I don’t think “holiday” since I don’t celebrate those holidays. My immediate thought is always snow and white clouds…that icy blue. 😊

This was SUCH a lovely video! The stories combined with the fabric color choices made me think in a whole different way about why and how I choose my quilt fabric. Thank you!❤️👍🏻

The bleak midwinter would have to have a pop of red berries for me. I love the thought process for evoking personal seasonal colours. Thanks.

Enjoyed tonight’s video, especially the discussion regarding individual motivation and inspiration for quilt color choices. And love the disappearing four patch quilt hanging behind you. Thanks again Cathy❤️

Years ago we did our “color charts” they were seasons and very much like you mentioned. At the time I was amazed how accurate they were but I find in my quilting I tend to gravitate to those same colors. I don’t do well with putting different patterns together but have learned about using the dots on the selvage to help. I have yet to understand and use low high volume and hues. Great video

Kathy, I was watching a video this morning from Kate Dillon about Quiltcon and I saw your quilt!!!!! I was so excited to see it!! I'm a subscriber and have watched all of your videos. Funny side note, my name is Kathy and my husband is also Paul. So exciting to see your quilt at Quiltcon!! 😊

Your winter colors are what I see here in Maine with the grays, blues and I'd also add a very small amount of red for the cardinels.

Having lived in Centre, AL for ten years, I got a big chuckle out of your AL football teams comment. I preferred Auburn😄

I'm definitely a fall person, but the "peachy" spring quilt has my vote from these pulls! Although I thought "frosty" instead of bleak for the grey one. It could be very pretty! Ohhhhh, I said peeps for that other spring pull even before you did. Ew. 😂 That's precisely what they remind me of!

Blessings to you and your family. Love your idea of using the 4 seasons for inspiration on choosing colors for a quilt project. Had a good chuckle about Paul's color choice for summer, I can relate. I grew up in the woods of Indiana. Happy Stitching!!

Had to stop by and say that I saw your quilt at Quilt Con on Kate Dillon’s channel. It looked so cool on display!

Great idea! Very different thought about way to put colors together, love it

Thanks ! What an interesting way to think of combining colors.💛🧡💚

What a fantastic way to get started for a project! I love the thought and explanation. Thanks for another great video❤❤

❤ love you thinking deeply and sharing your ideas.

Loved this video, I’ve become a shirt collector 🙈amongst other fabric collections. Adore the seasonal idea xx

War Eagle! From a Yankee who has Auburn family. Go Blue!

A great idea for quilt inspiration! Thanks Kathy

I made a scrappy fall themed jelly roll race quilt! Turned out beautiful ❤️

I make predominately scrap quilts. Mostly because I like combining different fabrics in the blocks and get bored using the same fabrics over and over. My quilts are controlled scrappy...blue/tan/white, Civil War-ish colors, batiks with different soft grey backgrounds, etc.

Thank you. for opening up visual possibilities.

Thank you! This video just showed up on my feed and it has me thinking about using the Village quilt pattern and summer (to me) fabrics to create “Beach Houses.” Summer for my family is the South Jersey Shore, so I’m thinking yellow, blue, green (beach glass), tan, white, gray.

i absolutely need this video. i don't use shirts. but FQ or scraps and bingo i have the same blockage!

Jeannie Robertson (humorist) also went to Auburn University 🌹 Also for spring there are the crocuses (purple) 😉

Wow! This was great! 🤯 It’s funny how sometimes you get stuck in thinking something is black and white, like fall is only reds, oranges, and yellows, etc., and I realized that one year I thought of fall colors as blue green and mustard yellow and evergreen. Your version of summer (I am a summer girl 😎) with the beach sand and water colors really resonates with me (I’m from southern Rhode Island and I loved going to the beach. Not quite the same here in Indiana 😂). It would be so fun to add the colors of beach huts or umbrellas. Or, just a quilt of colorful beach huts. 😍 A question I’ve been meaning to ask you since your beautiful sewing space transformation is… what made you choose gray cutting mats instead of the green ones like Olfa? I have several Olfa mats but I’ve seen a lot of quilters using the gray mats recently and have been wondering if there was a reason. I recently bought a really big Olfa mat and it stunk so bad that I had to keep it in the garage to air it out for weeks. I am wondering if I should return it and get a gray one instead. A belated congratulations on QuiltCon!!! 💃🏻 Have a great weekend!

I said “In the bleak midwinter” before you did. You speak Jennifer! (Or I speak Catbird…) ❤

Well, you have made a very enjoyable video and also given some great inspiration for working with scraps. I love scrap piecing, but tend to use too many colors. It’s not horrible, but I’ve been thinking I want to try using a more limited palette.

Your thoughts and info are very inspiring! Thank you 😊

You nailed it!!! I love the spring and summer (mine summer would be more like yours).

Not a lot of sewing 😅 but a lot of good sense and insights. Thanks for sharing ❤👍from Somerset UK

thankyou.special ideas

I love peeps and I love candy corn; okay, so I love sugar. Of course those are Summer colors!!!!! You have to consider guys don't know the difference between mauve, lilac, lavender, purple, and periwinkle, where we all KNOW they're 5 distinctly different colors. Evergreen trees are green all year long! I'm totally agreeing with you on the Summer colors, whether you go with the beach or popsicles.

With hundreds of patterns saved, nearly allll of them can be made with scrap bits. To be seen, patterns need some kind of contrast: Light vs dark, color A vs color B, Shades of brights vs shades of calms. Contrast vs almost none. Every block a different combination..... Dull? throw in a very different spark now and then. Choose the pattern that pleases you and have at it. Shuffle blocks till happy. )) Random crumbs turn out great with completely random bits or the above combinations. Example: blue and green crumbs.... with or without sashing. Contrasting stars at the sash junctions???? Play. Enjoy. )))

Green and brown would be the END of summer whe everything is burned up from the heat. 😂😂😂

Many people think red, white and blue for summer due to the 4th of July being a big event in summer.

26:23 Hi! Your fabric pulls and talks about color really stretch me in the area I feel most uncomfortable. THANKS! I would also greatly appreciate a video covering how to then take those fabrics and decide placement within a chosen pattern. Which, for instance, should I use for the background or sashing, or does that always come from outside the selected fabrics? Of course, the pattern may only call for fewer colors than I have chose, so I need to cull certain ones…. I LOVE LISTENING AND LEARNING! Thanks and keep it up!❤

I love peeps!

Love your videos...lol

Sitting in my kitchen at 6am and looking out the indie looking at the daffodils starting to bloom. Love the way you pull the fabrics together

Sorry I missed you at QC. Had to leave Saturday 😢. Tried to reply to your msg., but I don't think it went through.😮 App not too friendly. Oh welm, maybe next time.👋👋

War Eagle!

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Careful now, don’t oversell Alabama 😂 I like my elbow room 😂

Cathy, what is the pattern of the quilt behind you? I too went to Auburn but now divide time btwn WA & NY.

War Eagle 🦅 💙💛

I need this girlfriend!!! ❤🙏🐦

Hi from South Africa. I too use men's dress shirts for quilting but I prefer scrappy style because I don't have to think... Just enjoy I came across this video kzfaq.infoN4CLCEQ_JjQ?si=D6SQATOUHlEzbdWM that I would high recommend, Jelly roll club, she also gives a pdf pattern. This my current quilt 😊 and I'm so excited.

50 patterns? That's nothin! And, in general I don't need a pattern.

You hate PEEPS??!! I have to unfollow. 😢 Kidding