Midnight Quilts: 11 Sparkling Projects to Light Up the Night
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Midnight Quilts - Lerlene Nevaril
Dedication
I want to dedicate this book to Wanda, Cindy, Lisa, and Brenda. They took my pieced tops and quilted them into beautiful quilts. Outstanding job, ladies!
Acknowledgments
In one way or another, quilts are made by committee. Quilters reach out to others for inspiration and instruction. In earlier times, contact was through quilting bees; today, there are guilds, bees, retreats, and conferences. This book is possible because of the encouraging efforts of many people.
Liz Aneloski at C&T Publishing guided and pointed me in the right direction every step of the way. Jody Lamb and Leslie Graham pieced tops and bound quilts. Wanda Jones, Cindy Thompson, Lisa DeSpain, and Brenda Shreve provided longarm quilting. Fabrics were courtesy of Robert Kaufman Fabrics, P&B Textiles, Andover Fabrics, and Timeless Treasures; batting was courtesy of Hobbs Bonded Fibers and Pellon. Quilting friends encouraged me and provided support.
The idea was mine, but the above helped nurture and develop the theme. I am grateful for all their help.
Thumb through a stack of the latest quilt magazines and quilt books and you will see an interesting trend developing. The featured quilts are more dark than light. But these quilts aren’t dark and drab; rather, they are dark and bright. Quilters are discovering that bright colors pop
better against dark fabrics than they do against light fabrics.
The same 1930s reproduction fabrics are used for both of these quilts. The difference?
The design on the left has a white and light-colored background, and the one on the right has a black background.
See how much more vibrant and bright the 1930s fabrics look against black than against the pale background in the examples at right. That this is not really something new is evident when one looks back at yesterday’s quilts. We have wonderful examples made by Amish quilters in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These quilts were made primarily with bright and deeply saturated colors and black; a light-colored background was extremely rare. At the turn of the twentieth century many quilters made crazy quilts, another style with an emphasis on black to make the other colors shine. Let’s not forget the primitive wool penny rugs of the 1800s; once again, black was the color of choice to frame the pennies.
Many of the Log C abin quilts from the nineteenth century combine black with bright colors for contrast. One of the first quilts I made in the 1980s was a Double Wedding Ring—with a black background.
Black backgrounds with up-to-date fabrics give all these quilts a contemporary flair. They are dramatic. They are bright. They are fun!
This book presents patterns for eleven quilts, plus a gallery of a baker’s dozen more to show the dramatic effects you can achieve by using dark backgrounds to create remarkable quilts. It includes patterns for every skill level, from beginner to advanced; make these quilts to advance your skill level or simply to have fun—or both.
So expand your horizons! Take a break from the everyday, and see how black can add