S4 E86: Rhonda Pierce, Schmetz Needles, Euro-Notions

May 5, 2022 Stephanie Socha

PODCAST GUEST: RHONDA PIERCE

The SCHMETZ bundles: https://schmetzneedles.com/bundles.
The ever popular SCHMETZ ABC Pocket Guide is available mostly free at sewing machine dealers and shops that sell SCHMETZ. It is available as a free app in Goggle Play and iStore. It can be printed too: https://schmetzneedles.com/medias/ABC-brochureNEW.pdf.pdf
SCHMETZ Color Chart: https://schmetzneedles.com/sewing-machine-needle-color-code-chart.
Rhonda’s personal blog: www.SewMoreStitches.com
See Rhonda’s profile in SCHMETZ Inspired to SEW: Inspired to SEW #86 by SCHMETZneedles - Issuu

VOICE MAIL: From listener Paula:

Q: How to incorporate her bold bright colors and patterns from sewing and quilting into her neutral interior decor style and to keep the serene feel.

A: There are a few ways you can do this:

Saturated Pops of limited and muted colors in your accents, both sewn and decorative. These accent colors become your secondary and tertiary colors in your design palette. Pillows, vases, trays etc. If your bright colors are blue, red and white...choose quilting fabrics in slightly softer tones of these same colors...cornflower blue, raspberry red and soft white...not pure white. French General has beautiful muted reds. Mix one color with some of the neutral colors. Matrress ticking stripe has color and is soft at the same time...do a pillow cord/piping in the coordinating color of that stripe (red or blue). Choose a large pattern statement fabric in either neutrals, and then add a flange in color - or the backside of the pillow is a quilt block in accent colors.
Bedding: Keep the large pieces more in the neutral zone and pop the color in the shams and accent pillows. Curtains/drapery - Use a colorful fabric on the lead edge.
Quilts: Keep them bright and colorful and mix a neutral backgound fabric like essex linen - flax or champagne.
Frame a colorful quiltblock centered in a linen mat board.