I remember the first time you laughed about how much you didn't like the purple shirt. I believe I left a message telling you that you would learn to love purple. Evertime you mention purple I giggle a bit!

I absolutely love learning about color ways………I’m a more “fly by the seat of my pants” color puller. If I like it stays - if I don’t it goes away for another day or quilt! Your work is so intentional and I love that!

Another lovely lesson thank you Cathy 🥰 I love that saying about it not being about perfection but wanting to be happy with what you make. So true!! 👏🏻❤️ Can’t wait to see when this quilt comes together!

Thanks for taking time to walk us through your thought process as you make pattern and fabric choices! Once again you have offered a wonderful "teaching moment" that resonates with me. My favorite part is how you connected with the original pattern (by finding inspiration in the title) and exploring/ researching until you found color inspiration from the movie poster. Look forward to seeing the finished quilt.❤

Cathy and Paul the color choice for the wall is excellent! What a difference…great job!

When you sang the word soft. I immediately thought, "soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of furr." 🎶 😂

Always enjoy your fabric pulls and how you talk about the decision making process of choosing colors/fabrics

I had to laugh Cathy when you pulled out the "mustard" colored fabric and said I won't say what this reminds me of. I knew exactly what you were thinking and most moms probably did too. Too funny. All your colors looked beautiful and you did a great job explaining how you decided on them. Tell Paul he is doing a great job behind the scenes because I know how much work that can be.🥰

I have yet to make a quilt but your explanations about everything are so interesting and informative that I am mesmerised by the whole thing. Thank you for this and when I’m feeling a little bit better I intend to get my stash of my husbands old shirts out and attempt my first one.

I love to watch your process in pulling fabrics. You have helped me be more confident and creative when choosing fabrics for my projects! Thanks so much for your videos. 💕

Thanks so much Cathy. I struggle with color, but your explanations are always very helpful. And yes -- being happy, not perfection, is the better goal!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Cathy and Erica - "This is not about perfection, it's about being happy with what I make". This is a valuable statement to keep in my pocket. ❤🪡🧵

Oh those colors!!! I can't wait to see the finished quilt.

I watched this video twice today! I love your videos so much. I wanted to share that with you. I'm a writer and I love words! You said something today and I went back three times to try to find it and I wrote it down and I put it in my notes for myself. You said you were looking for "subtle shifts of color not radical shifts." These words perfectly described what I try to do sometimes in my doll designs. I am an animal doll pattern designer. (And a quilter hobbyist). My mother was a professional seamstress. She was such a master at color and she would teach my brother and myself about blue Reds and orange Reds and brown reds. How important it is to get the right intensities and she talked to us about Hew and about Heather colors. I watched my mother take many pieces of furniture from places like Goodwill.she purchased old button back couches and she would recover them. This was long before the internet and youtube. She would have books from the library and teach yourself how to cover buttons and then she would painstakingly take beautiful corduroys or velvets or damasks and she would cover beautiful pieces of furniture. We didn't have a lot of money but my mother made her home a little palace. She made me Austrian drapes that were a soft lavender color that had a little tiny butterfly print on them. I have so many beautiful memories of her and how important color was to her and how seriously she took it. That was in the day when you never wore white shoes and black pantyhose. That was in the day when you didn't mix navy blue and black or brown and baby blue. Haha when I was listening to you today I kind of got choked up because I think you are the first person that I have heard besides my mother take color so seriously on youtube. Of course there are art classes a person can take and learn about color but I have not heard very many people take color as seriously as you do regarding fabrics. Thank you! I absolutely love designing dolls for beginning seamstresses. I am taking very seriously the color choices that I use for my model dolls because I think it's so important. I also think color is so important for children to be around. Varying degrees and grades of color. Not just the primary colors but tertiary colors as well. Anyway thank you, I just had to reach out and tell you that I love what you do and I think it's so fun that you take shirts and break them down. Before I found your channel I had put a post out on my church group asking if any men were getting rid of any church shirts I would sure love to have some. One man gave me about six beautiful dress shirts. I don't know that I broke them down as well as you do. But I'm going to learn from you and I'll do it properly from here on out. I did make two adorable Fox dolls with his gorgeous window pane plaid shirts. Thank you again and please keep making content! You have a fan in idaho!

Hi Cathy. I am so enjoying your videos. I have been quilting since 2011 and I really like learning new things from you. I guess you can never stop learning. You made me laugh out loud when you were talking about that gold material. I knew exactly what color you were referring to before you delicately described it. Back in 1973 I bought my first car. It was a Vega. You don't see them on the road anymore. It was pretty much the same color. My dad was with me for the purchase and the first thing out of his mouth was "That car is babysh## yellow". He was right, but being my very own first car, I loved it.

Good morning Cathy, I just love your knowledge of color and am learning so much going along when you choose your fabrics. I am heading to the computer right now to print the “It’s not about perfection, it’s about being happy with what I make” and I will frame and hang where I can see when I am sitting at my machine, being to hard on myself, thank you for sharing that! Happy Friday! 🥰

I broke down my first four men's shirts for my stash this week. Thanks Cathy! You inspire me with every video.

Your energy when pulling the fabric is just what I need every Friday morning. Hopefully I will get time with my fabric this weekend 😊

I always appreciate the conversation and enjoy seeing your process. This will be another wonderful quilt!

❤Once again, I can’t wait to see the finished quilt top! It’s going to be lovely, as is the one behind you. I am so impressed by your vision for your luminaries project. Lovely idea, and you’re going to love the process. I am deeply involved in the post holidays deep cleaning mode, so your projects are inspiring and calling me back to.creating lovely things. But first, I really must finish these deep clearing and cleaning jobs. Thanks for the mental field trip to creativity camp though. 🥰

Thanks again for your insight. So many great ideas to take onboard. 2024 is the year I do sewing that I am really happy with. Love your videos. Great work.

I like to be happy with my quilts, or whatever I am making…and NONE of them are perfect! I like listening to your ideas and final choices! I see you have been working on a “disappearing four patch”, or that’s what it looks like to me! I made a little girls quilt from this pattern several years ago, but I cut 2 inches from the center instead of the narrow strip. That worked better for me. Have a great week!

I just love your knowledge of color theory. Thank you.

Thank you for taking us through this process. I’m not as intentional in my color choices and I should be. I have found that as I put blocks together I occasionally find fabrics I just don’t like and then it sticks out like a sore thumb in the finished quilt top. I get in a hurry to start cutting and piecing and have to remember it’s not a race! Have a great day!

Hi Cathy. Such gorgeous colors! Looking forward to your progress reports. My machine is still having a hiatus. Will be great to uncover her soon. 💖

Good morning ☕️❤ I enjoyed so much to seeing you work through that little colour puzzle ✨️ so much inspiration for my working day today, I work on two linen dresses, one green, one yellow. 🍏🍋😊 Thank you ❤️

Love that process and the peek into your thinking/feeling!

Happy over perfect is a great mantra! ❤

I love listening to you talk, and all that you have to say! I have been watching you since Covid. Sometimes when I start a quilt, I go in headfirst not even thinking about the outcome, I may find myself halfway through going something just isn’t quite right! So I’ll take a look and call my color experts, which is my husband and my daughter. They have both helped me on different occasions!

I decided that I would watch you 1st this morning then clean bathrooms. The time went by to fast. I wanted to set a goal before sewing. Have a great week.

I just made a quilt with bright yellow sashing instead of white because it makes me happy. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be the most popular choice, but… COLOR😍! It’s so vibrant that it really recharges my battery, lol.

Beautiful fabrics! The Luminaries is a New Zealand mini-series - years ago I briefly worked with the author of the book it's based on!

I learn so much from your colour vision. Thank you.

Hi Cathy! Because I’m such a scrappy quilter, I have never analyzed color, color waves and have spend very little time thinking as you do😂Color wheels, not in my wheelhouse. I just say “that combo makes me happy” and start to cut. There are certain color combos that I know clash “ not making me happy”. I have never taken the time to think “why” this is so. As with your closing comments, “if it makes you happy”, that’s me..with no real thought, no analyzing…got to go..I’m only a winter quilter..my sewing machine is calling..(KH)❤

Happy = perfection in our own eyes. That is it! It makes me sad when I see people judging themselves and their creations through the eyes of others (and there is no shortage of quilting police!). XOX

I'm sorry Cathy, she's now "OUR" friend Jennifer 😂❤...

I often choose a few fabrics, leave them out or up on the design wall and come back in a day or two to assess them, especially if I've spent alot of time looking at fabrics. Fresh eyes always help me to affirm or shift.

I have watched several of your videos, but I have never seen how you actually make anything. 😊

I have started buying shirts - the first one I found was a pale purple. I had to laugh out loud in the thrift store. The deconstruction is so relaxing; I think about how I will put them together while I am taking them apart. My husband, carefully guarding his shirts, is excited to see how I use them. I’m wondering how many seam rippers I will go through this year❤️

I think that gold is 'mustard'. I like your fabric pull

You find the best shirts

I like both of those color ways I would use the lighter version in the main piecing and use the brighter in the snow balled corners. It might look like the sun reflecting off something shiny ✨ at twilight

Interesting process and result. I do this and sometimes feel picky but l too want to be happy with the results! I am waiting to be called for Carpal Tunnel surgery on my right hand which will definitely stop my quilt production for a while as l recover 😢😢 What will l do with myself ? Lol

Have you thought about having the bold colour way on the top and do the bottom half in the other colour way. Almost like there is an object and it’s reflection

I also had to learn that not every pretty fabric that I love has to go into a quilt even if they all go together