I haven’t really mentioned LOVE yet have I ... no don’t run away this isn’t going to be one of those cringeworthy conversations you might have with your teenage children. Although I am a little trepidatious (I think I made that word up) about what spam is going to hit my blog now! Love is Amy Butler’s latest fabric range. (But you already knew that - didn’t you?)
Basically this glorious fabric collection comes in four colour palettes, described as Heart, Soul. (Ok that’s two - but I think it’s Heart 1 and 2.... Soul 1 and 2 ) As with her other fabric collections these prints work beautifully alone but really come alive in combination with others from the collection.
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Soul.
I’ve cut quite a lot of this fabric over the last week or so and I’m struck by how full of energy the colours and designs are. I hope that doesn’t sound completely stupid. The colours are bright. The more muted greens of the mints, grass and limes are ‘young’ , optimistic, fresh. The intense midnight blues, burgundy wines, teals and blush colours are all warm and gorgeous. I absolutely love the the periwinkle blues and the zingy tangerines.
The floral designs have a lot of energy and movement about them. The bliss bouquet designs, are covered in big blousy peony type flowers. The cypress paisleys have the tight shapes of cypress trees with flowing tendrils of flowers around the basic paisley shape.
The Tumble Roses ... well... they tumble. :) The bunched bouquets of memento and water bouquet look like flowers freshly gathered from spring/summer meadows and have a kind of fresh growing energy about them.
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The paradise garden designs have that stylised flower look of the ’60’s and 70's.
The sunspots are essentially a polka dot design with unevenly sized ‘spots’. Great used alone but when used in combination with other designs contribute to that feeling of energy in these designs.
The Asian influences in the collection that Amy speaks of can be most obviously seen in the arabesque, Sandlewood and Bali Gate designs. There are a lot of details in these designs. I like the lace like background to the arabesque patterns.
But what happens when the prints are combined. Amy’s own website is a brilliant source of ideas for combinations. How about these ideas for starters?
How would you combine them? Do you like the quieter combinations? or the more zingy, zesty, lets live life to the full combinations?
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