Good Hair Day Blog Hop

Photography credit: Danielle Collins

Nearly six months ago, Kim Andersson invited me to design a project for her newest fabric line for Windham Fabrics.  Good Hair Day is a 22 SKU collection with six hair-themed prints in a range of blues, corals, greys and yellows.

I'll admit when Kim told me she was making a hair-themed collection, I was a bit bewildered. I'm not much of a hair girl. I rock a very short pixie that rarely gets dolled up. When I saw her designs though, I quickly changed my mind and fell head over heals for Bobby Pins and the swooped swirls of Just a Trim.

Inspired by the designs packed with hair combs and hair dryers and the saturated-yet-sweet colors, my mind rushed to the big moment in life -- prom. To be clear, I didn't go to prom, but I've seen it romanticized enough on tv to make an immediate association.  With that in mind, I designed a pillow set where elongated bowties pop against subtle background fabrics. The pillows made their debut at Quilt Market and I'll be launching the pattern next week when I announce our giveaway winner! (More on the giveaway below). 

The two cushions I designed, Slow Dance and Midnight Kiss pair selected prints from the Good Hair Day collection. In one pillow I used a subtle white print as the background; in the other I paired the prints with a cross-dyed Artisan Cotton, also from Windham Fabrics.

During the time that I should have been rushing to finish the pattern for the blog hop, I found myself distracted by the remaining Good Hair Day fabric in the caravan. It had prime position among the sewing supplies and had landed next to Kim's debut collection, Tidal Lace, which I also had the joy of designing a project for, the Ahoy There pouch.

The blue, blush and coral tones of Good Hair Day played perfectly with Tidal Lace. The prints complimented each other with enough variance in tone and hue to make for a visually interesting mix. So instead of writing the pattern due today, I busied myself making a string quilt using neutral grey center strings which lets Kim's fabric shine.

So that leads us to today when my pattern isn't ready, but it is my stop on The Good Hair Day blog tour.

As part of the blog hop, Windham Fabrics is generously giving away a 5" Good Hair Day charm pack at each stop. Entries are open to local or international readers. If you'd like a chance to win, simply leave a comment with ideas about what types of designs you'd like to see on fabric. Comments will be open until January 23, 2016 - 4pm South Australia time (One of the world's bizarre half-hour offset time zones. No kidding! Look it up, after you are done looking at fabric.)

The winner be selected random. Check back on January 24th when I post the winning name and Prom Night Pillow pattern.

For more chances to win and to see other Good Hair Day projects, bounce over to visit all these creative bloggers:

Good Hair Day Blog Hop, January 2016

Monday 11th: Kim Andersson  and Windham Fabrics

Tuesday 12th: Erin Harris, Terri Carpenter and Cath Mosely

Wednesday 13th: Adrianne Ove and Kristin Takakuwa

Thursday 14th: Daniel Rouse and Cal Patch

Friday 15th: Stacey Day and Amy Gunson

Saturday 16th: Madeleine Roberg and Darci Alexis

Sunday 17th: Miriam Blaich and Crystal Chadwick

Monday 18th: Pati Fried/Laura Nownes and Gillian Smith

Tuesday 19th: Casey York and Nicole Daksiewicz

happy crafting, amy badskirt.