Digging into Brown Scraps

 I know that brown is probably the most disliked color among the quilting community , but I'm in the minority because I love it and I have the stash to prove it:

I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a color of the year, but somewhere I ran across the fact that Mocha was the color of the year for 2025 so maybe I'm finally on board with a trend. That'd be a first. LOL.

I know that for most of you, the winters are filled with brown and in places it's known as khaki season of but, around here it also shares space with the deepest blue sky and loads of bright sunshine: 

                             

I have a soft spot for brown 

and those of you who have been here for a while know how much I love my dirt road so when I stumbled upon this pattern, it shouldn't surprise you that I caved:

                                   

I've had the pattern in a bin for 5 or 6 years, but while I was looking for something else, I peeked inside and decided it was time to start cutting. I pulled some other fabrics from my stash because I want a scrappier rendition

Pressing and cutting take time, but every step moves the project forward and I'm in no hurry. It may be a week before I get to my sewing room, but it's not going anywhere.

I found the following somewhere online years ago and I loved the way the author brought the color to life. 

Brown is the color of hearth and home - of dried herbs and stone-ground bread and freshly baked cookies. It represents all of the nurturing, life-sustaining, down to earth qualities of terra firma, the very shade of the earth itself. Just as in the sturdy oak, brown represents roots, a steady, stable source of security, comfort, and normalcy. It is the color of fertile soil and plowed earth, buckskin and rawhide, weathered redwood, bison and mustang, frontier land - rugged and outdoorsy. It is pine cone and bracken, chipmunk and acorn, beaver and doe. Brown is considered a classic shade of solid substance. ~Leatrice Eiseman, "Brown: Earthy and Real," Colors For Your Every Mood - 1998

Well said! So I'll be happily puttering with my collection of brown fabrics for the foreseeable future. 😉